וְהָאֶ֣בֶן הַזֹּ֗את אֲשֶׁר־שַׂ֙מְתִּי֙ מַצֵּבָ֔ה יִהְיֶ֖ה בֵּ֣ית אֱלֹהִ֑ים וְכֹל֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּתֶּן־לִ֔י עַשֵּׂ֖ר אֲעַשְּׂרֶ֥נּוּ לָֽךְ׃ And this stone, which I have set up as a pillar, shall be G.d’s abode; and of all that You give me, I will set aside a tithe for You.” (Bereshit 28.22) These are the words that Yaakov pronounces upon awakening from the dream in which the L.rd appeared to him …
Articles about Avi
Avi Sperber at the Stern Gallery by Debby Luzia
Avi Sperber is not a spontaneous artist. His work consists of thorough research – formulating an idea and planning his work to a point that one feels that when he chooses a stone, he already visualizes the finished sculpture in full detail. Indeed, one has the impression that Sperbers’ sculptures are exposed from within the stone – as if they were there all along and he just revealed …
Avi Sperber Creates Contemporary Stone Sculpture – by Doron Polak
“Stone has lost its glory in contemporary sculpture: for many decades stone has been ‘out.’ First it gave way to bronze, and then to metal and wood, and later it gave way to new industrial materials – plywood, plastic, fiberglass, stainless steel, fluorescent lights, various polymers and more, without even mentioning the latest sculptural interest in organic materials (blood, urine and …
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Avi Sperber Sculpture – by Jan Van Woensel
Sculptors have always intrigued me. My practice as curator and philosopher always followed the motivation that all art is born out of a concept, an idea, which in itself is not an easy development. Then, the concept (might) materialize(s) into an artwork. This process from idea to physical work, inevitably also establishes a loss of the original concept, or intention, because now the artist is …
A Dialogue with Historical Cultures via Avi Sperber’s Sculpture by Doron Polak
Avi Sperber has expanded the range of well-known traditional art via his sculpture, and has changed the way it is viewed, even as he holds a dialogue with its skeletal, historical qualities. The intention of Sperber’s art is, first of all, to confront the definitions that relate to conceptual art on the one hand and, on the other, to real concepts that are based on authentic and allegorical …
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Stone-Speak: Avi Sperber’s Sculptures: A Personal Observation by Michael Sternberg
Avi Sperber's beautiful stone sculptures are not confined by the artist's definition of what they signify. Art is in its simplest terms an integration of the individual (artist) and for the universal (the artwork) and the meaning brought to it by the observer. Here I observe Sperber's work in a way less restricted and less polemical and more universal than the artist himself does. Sculpture is …
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The Third Millenium / Stone Age by Doron Pollack
Avi Sperber is an artist who leaves his mark by means of large monumental sculptures that symbolize earth's struggle for survival. His sculpture often includes traditional symbols and cultural and artistic signs. His exhibitions deal again and again with the universal and cosmic topics, which disturb him and provide inspiration for his sculptural creations in materials taken from the earth and …
Questions and answers for myself
Questions and answers for myself Over the years, many people have asked me conceptual and technical questions about my art. Now, on the occasion of the publication of this book, and after banging away at stone with a hammer for 17 years, I've tried to explain to myself what exactly I do, why I do it, and what motivates me. I once read a quote in a book by Mordechai Omer: An artist is a …
Avi Sperber – Wavy Lines on Grey
A Tribute to Sol LeWitt I became aware of the work of Sol LeWitt in the 1970's, while residing in the United States to earn a MSc in Transportation Engineering. Since then I work in the planning of roads and transportation systems by laying out lines and curves on topographic maps in classes for Urban and Environmental Planning. In my life as a sculptor, I recently find myself working on …