Hedva Ser | |
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 Hedva Ser in 2022 | |
| Born | September 20, 1948 |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, painter, sculptor |
Hedva Ser (born September 20, 1948) is a French artist, painter and sculptor. She is a UNESCO Artist for Peace and is known for creating tapestries and jewellery. [1]
Hedva Ser trained from 1964 to 1966 at the youth department of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, then in 1966 at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris and from 1967 to 1970 at the Centre d'art technique Camondo. In 1970, she went to the Hornsey College of Art in London.[ citation needed ]
After painting, she began working in tapestry, which she developed in her own way by introducing a new relief technique.[ citation needed ]
In 1975, she met the Argentinian sculptor Alicia Penalba. From 1982, Hedva Ser fully practiced sculpture.[ citation needed ]
In 1984, she designed the sets for Jacques Chancel's Grand Échiquier , which reinforced her growing reputation.[ citation needed ]
Hedva Ser has completed numerous major projects in France, in Rocquencourt, Paris, Sophia Antipolis, as well as public and private commissions in Switzerland , Israel and the United States.[ citation needed ]
Numerous solo exhibitions have been devoted to her work at the French Institute in Athens (1983), the Picasso Museum in Antibes (1988), Harvard University (1992), the Tapestry Museum in Aubusson (1998), the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (1999), the Artcurial Gallery in Paris (1999), Monaco (2000), the Panijel Gallery in Paris (2005 and 2006) and the Ermano Tedeschi Gallery in Milan (2007).[ citation needed ]
A retrospective of his work was presented at the town hall of the 16th arrondissement of Paris (2010) and a solo show at the Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier in Paris (2011).[ citation needed ]
As part of her fight for intercultural dialogue, she has been inaugurating her traveling sculpture The Tree of Peace all over the world since 2007. Between July 2017 and January 2018, after being installed on Place du Louvre in Paris, it was placed on the forecourt of the town hall of the 16th arrondissement, [2] then again at this location from 2021.
Her work was shown at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (December 2007); Still University in Mesa, Arizona (May 2011); Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (May 2012); al-Quds University in Palestine (July 2013); the Presidential Garden of the Verdala Palace in Malta (March 2014); Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (June 2014); Ordino in the Principality of Andorra (July 2014); Baku, Azerbaijan (May 2015); the Garden of Nations, Berlin, Germany (July 2015); Kfar Maccabiah in Israel (May 2016); and the University of Strasbourg, France (July 2016).[ citation needed ]
In 2001, she was named a Knight of the Legion of Honour and an Officer of Arts and Letters. [3] In 2017, she became a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and UNESCO Special Envoy for Cultural Diplomacy. [4]
Hedva Ser has two children, Guy-Philippe Goldstein and Diane Goldstein .
Her first participation in the Salon de Mai at the Paris City Hall dates back to 1978. She has been present at numerous events, notably in 2008 at the exhibition of monumental sculptures on the Champs-Élysées. [5]
