Yehiel Rabinowitz (born March 1939) is a Paris-based sculptor and painter. He has created a number of mural paintings and ceramic tile murals in public and private spaces throughout France, Spain, and Belgium. He is also responsible for creating sculptures out of sheets of aluminum and stainless steel in public and private spaces in France and Canada, such as “Les Otimistes” in Fougères, France. Rabinowitz began practicing art as a profession in the 1960s and rose to prominence through the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s.
Rabinowitz was born in March 1939 in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, a Jewish community in what would later become Israel. He lost his parents at a very early age and spent his childhood years in Poland and Israel. Yehiel was a versatile pupil; able in languages, mathematics, and engineering, yet his principal interest was drawing. He obtained a military rank that allowed him to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tel Aviv, where he stayed in 1958 and 1959. He decided to celebrate his twentieth birthday in Paris, the capital of art at the time. Rabinowitz was admitted to the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He stayed there for five years (1960–1965) and refused the customary specialization, enrolling in as many ateliers (drawing, litho, painting, sculpturing) as possible.
Apart from creating numerous individual drawings, paintings, and sculptures, Rabinowitz has won a number of important art contests, thus realizing many large mural paintings and a number of sculptures.
Early works
In 1965, almost immediately after leaving Beaux Arts, Rabinowitz got a first solo exhibition at Gallery Abel Rambert in Paris. This exposition was followed by several others in France, Israel, and Norway. At that time Rabinowitz envisioned making paintings in the street, basically accessible for everybody—quite a revolutionary thought at the time.
In 1968, during the anarchic months in Paris, Rabinowitz became a member of the atelier populaire, making posters to support the student movement. Thereafter Rabinowitz was a founding member of atelier critique, an ever-changing group of artists with a loose, non-hierarchical organization. The group experimented with new ways of collective creating, for example by creating wigs, street-games, balloons, and even floating isles. The atelier ceased to exist in 1970.
Mural paintings
Floor Mosaic, 1992
In 1971 his first mural painting was realized for the photographer Bernard Goustard. It was followed by many others, mainly in Paris, though few of these survive. By 1975, Rabinowitz's mural paintings had raised the attention of a number of architects, one of whom suggested to realize one in the newly built Renault site in Grand-Couronne. This new idea was endorsed by then company president Pierre Dreyfus and subsequently led to a number of mural paintings and murals of ceramic tiles in private and public spaces throughout France, Spain, and Belgium. Rabinowitz realized more than 100 mural paintings until 1999. Some of these are very large covering several thousand square meters. Several mural paintings were supplemented by floors of marble mosaic.
Sculptures
Les Otimistes, Fougères, France, 2007
In the late 1980s, Rabinowitz started experimenting with the creation of sculptures out of sheets of aluminium and stainless steel. During the 1990s he realized a number of important projects in public and private spaces. This part of his artistic accomplishment continues till today, with the highlight to date being "Les Otimistes", a façade sculpture consisting of 15 high columns with 86 "flying persons", realized in Fougères, France (2005–2007).
Important individual pieces and large projects
Mural painting for Nova Park Hotel, Paris, 1981
Mural paintings for Renault plant in Sevilla, Spain, 1982–1983
Mural paintings, mosaics, sculpture garden for Clarins, Pontoise, France, 1984–1992
Fountain sculpture 'Point d'eau', Paris, 1985
Mural paintings for Renault plant in Valadollid, Spain 1987
Sculpture 'Snotor' for D.C.A.N. naval shipyard, Cherbourg, France1989
'Les Granes', artistic compositions for apartment-buildings, Paris XIV, 1993–1999
Drawings, lithos and sculptures 'Pitreries a deux', Paris, 1995
Large sculptures 'Tête en haut, tête en bas', Paris, 1996
Large 'folded sculpture', Vancouver, Canada, 1998
Entry for 'Memorial François Mitterrand', Château Chinon, France 1999
Blue Giant, Mouy, 1999
Six sculptures for SODIS, Lagny, France 2000
Sculpture range 'Les Traversantes', Paris, 2000
Sculpture 'Nu sur un doigt', Paris, 2003
Façade Sculpture 'Les Otimistes', Fougères, France 2005-2007
Recent expositions
Vancouver International Sculpture Project, Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) 2000
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