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Benni Efrat, Israeli painter, sculptor, printmaker, and filmmaker, born in 1936 in Beirut, Lebanon. Active in Belgium.
Benni Efrat immigrated to Israel in 1947. He studied at Kibbutz Nahsholim. After leaving the kibbutz, he studied art at the Avni Institute. In the mid-1960s, he helped to found the 10+ group. In 1965, he went to London, England, where he created figurative paintings.
In 1966-1967, he studied at the St. Martin's School of Art, where he was exposed to minimalistic and conceptual art. In the 1970s, his work explored power struggles, the relations between form and content, and reality versus artistic representation. In "Energy" (1969), for example, Efrat built a 3 meter wide cube made entirely of metal coils. During this period, he branched out into new areas, such as video art. In "Painting" (1974), for example, he made a film in which he is seen painting a surface white. The film is projected on a screen that is identical in size and shape to the surface being painted.
In 1975-1981, Efrat lived in New York. There he became close to Bertha Urdang, a gallery owner who promoted Israeli avant-garde artists. In the 1980s, he moved to Europe, first living in Paris and Ambsterdam. From 1992, he lived and worked in Antewerp, Belgium. His work from the 1980s onwards explored ecological and metaphysical issues. He began dating his works from 2030 onward, marking an imaginary death date at the age of 94.
Education
1959–61 Avni Institute of Art and Design, Tel Aviv, with Yehezkel Streichman
1966-76 St. Martin's School of Art, London
Awards And Prizes
1965 The America-Israel Cultural Foundation Sharett Fund Scholarship for a Young Artist, Tel Aviv University
1969 Participant, Sixth Biennale, Biennale for Young Artists, Paris
1974 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem