"The sculpture is truth, it contains no effects"
David Fine has been a sculptor for over 60 years and specializes in the art of the basalt rock and environmental sculpting.
He was Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, moved to Israel in 1948, and was one of the pioneers of Kibbutz Maayan Baruch in Northern Galilee.
During the sixities he studied and taught ceramics at the Arts Institute, Te-Hai College, where he established and headed the Sculpture Department.
David took courses at the Center for Stone Sculpture at Pietra Santa, Italy.
In 1984, David Fine visited Japan on the invitation of Isamu Noguchi, and studied the Japanese garden and the Japanese approach to stone in nature.
Fine was among the Organizers of the "Tel-Hai 80", "Tel-Hai 83", "Tel-Hai 90" and "Tel-Hai 94" Environmental Sculptures
Events and by 1990 became Secretary of the Organization of Painters and Sculptors in the United Kibbutz Movement movement.
In 2003, David received the title of "Worthy Citizen of the Galilee".
David Fine has a number of large environmental sculptures positioned at sites throughout Israel from Tel-Hai in the north to Mitzpeh Ramon in the south, and has participated in many art exhibitions and events worldwide.
In exhibition space works and his life-long studio, David Fine displays his vast work of life-like basalt sculptures.
His work expresses a diversity of human qualities - the thinker, the curious, the deviant, the pessimistic, the involved, the critical, the indifferent, the voyeur, the authoriatarian, the reserved, the arrogant... Like ourselves, each sculpture represent an entire world, and all of them together join to create something more complete, perhaps interactive and dynamic, a society of sculptures.
Fine retains works that speak of relationships, love and couplehood; the supportive, the reserved, the playing between closeness and distance.
In David Fine's works, animals too evoke feelings which are essentially human such as respect and appreciation, in the proud horses and the powerful oxen.
David is fascinated by nature, and by the rocks that speak of a story before we came to this earth and perhaps long after we are gone; speaking of his works he often says that "the sculpture is truth, it contains no effects." - for the sculpture tells a message that is deeper than its creator.
All of David Fine's sculptures were created in his large studio at Maayan Baruch, an historical Kibbutz located on the northern Israeli border, besides Israel's Dan, Banyas and Snir streams, underlooked by the beautiful settings of the Hermon Mountain.
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He was Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, moved to Israel in 1948, and was one of the pioneers of Kibbutz Maayan Baruch in Northern Galilee.
During the sixities he studied and taught ceramics at the Arts Institute, Te-Hai College, where he established and headed the Sculpture Department.
David took courses at the Center for Stone Sculpture at Pietra Santa, Italy.
In 1984, David Fine visited Japan on the invitation of Isamu Noguchi, and studied the Japanese garden and the Japanese approach to stone in nature.
Fine was among the Organizers of the "Tel-Hai 80", "Tel-Hai 83", "Tel-Hai 90" and "Tel-Hai 94" Environmental Sculptures
Events and by 1990 became Secretary of the Organization of Painters and Sculptors in the United Kibbutz Movement movement.
In 2003, David received the title of "Worthy Citizen of the Galilee".
David Fine has a number of large environmental sculptures positioned at sites throughout Israel from Tel-Hai in the north to Mitzpeh Ramon in the south, and has participated in many art exhibitions and events worldwide.
In exhibition space works and his life-long studio, David Fine displays his vast work of life-like basalt sculptures.
His work expresses a diversity of human qualities - the thinker, the curious, the deviant, the pessimistic, the involved, the critical, the indifferent, the voyeur, the authoriatarian, the reserved, the arrogant... Like ourselves, each sculpture represent an entire world, and all of them together join to create something more complete, perhaps interactive and dynamic, a society of sculptures.
Fine retains works that speak of relationships, love and couplehood; the supportive, the reserved, the playing between closeness and distance.
In David Fine's works, animals too evoke feelings which are essentially human such as respect and appreciation, in the proud horses and the powerful oxen.
David is fascinated by nature, and by the rocks that speak of a story before we came to this earth and perhaps long after we are gone; speaking of his works he often says that "the sculpture is truth, it contains no effects." - for the sculpture tells a message that is deeper than its creator.
All of David Fine's sculptures were created in his large studio at Maayan Baruch, an historical Kibbutz located on the northern Israeli border, besides Israel's Dan, Banyas and Snir streams, underlooked by the beautiful settings of the Hermon Mountain.
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"Fine's environmental sculptures seem as if they have grown out of the earth,
like a part of a nature and as though they have always been there.
His sculptures now bespeak a minimum of human intervention in nature, a quiet stoic
reconciliation with the natural forces of fertility as methaphysical forces."
- Dr. Gideon Ofrat