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Esther Shalev-Gerz (born Gilinsky) is a contemporary artist. She lives and works in Paris, London and New York. ==Biography== Esther Shalev-Gerz was born in Vilnius, Lithuania. In 1957, she moved with her family to Jerusalem, Israel. From 1975 to 1979 she studied Fine arts at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design where she got her Bachelor of Fine Arts. She then lived in New York City for one year (1980/81). From 1981 she participated in collective exhibitions in institutions such as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. In 1983 she produced her first work in public space: ''Oil on Stone'', a permanent installation in Tel Hai, Israel, for the Tel Hai Contemporary Art Meeting. In 1984 the artist moved to Paris and started working through Europe and Canada. In 1990 she got an artistic residency from the German Academic Exchange Service and moved to Berlin for one year. In 2002 she stayed at the IASPIS residency in Stockholm, Sweden. From 2003 to 2014 she taught the Master of Fine Arts students in Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.〔(Shalev-Gerz's biography on her website )〕 Her latest major exhibitions were ''Ton Image me Regarde?!'', 2010, in the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, in which ten of her installations were displayed〔''Esther Shalev-Gerz'', catalogue of the exhibition ''Ton image me regarde?!'', Jeu de Paume and Fage Editions, ISBN 978-2-84975-187-9〕〔( Jeu de Paume website )〕〔Ronald Jones, ''I Saw It'', frieze, UK, March, 2010〕〔Elizabeth Matheson, “Esther Shalev-Gerz Ton image me regarde!?”, Ciel Variable n°86, Canada, September, 2010〕 and her retrospective entitled ''Between Telling and Listening'', 2012, in the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland where she presented 15 of her installations. Besides, her work was the subject of an itinerary personal exhibition in Canada between 2012 and 2014, firstly in the Kamloops Art Gallery,〔()〕 then in the Belkin Art Gallery,〔()〕 UBC, Vancouver and finally in the Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal.〔()〕 In 2010 she received a three-year grant from the Swedish Research Council for her Artistic Research project ''Trust and the Unfolding Dialogue''.〔(Valand website, Artistic Research page )〕 In 2013 was released the illustrated anthology ''Esther Shalev-Gerz, The Contemporary Art of Trusting Uncertainties and Unfolding Dialogues''〔()〕 edited by Jason E. Bowman that gathers new texts around Shalev-Gerz's work and the notion of Trust as well as formerly published texts on her art. Among the authors are Jacques Rancière, Georges Didi-Huberman, Jacqueline Rose, James E. Young, Lisa Le Feuvre. In 2014 her team is one of the six finalists of the competition for the design of the Canadian National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, with the teams of Yael Bartana, Daniel Libeskind, Krzysztof Wodiczko, David Adjaye or Gilles Saucier.〔()〕 In 2015 the Fonds municipal d'art contemporain of the city of Geneva acquired the artwork ''Les Inséparables'', 2000-2010, a monumental double-clock installed as a permanent work in public space. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Esther Shalev-Gerz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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