David Gerstein
Painter and sculptor · Israel · On the map · Artists · Born 1944 · age 82
David (Dudu) Gerstein is an Israeli painter, sculptor, draftsman, and printmaker. He began as a figurative painter and was recipient of the Israel Museum Prize for illustration. At the end of the 1970s, he wished to expand the limits of two-dimensional painting, into painting in three dimensions.
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Baby Twins, depicting Gerstein and his brother
David Gerstein - Fortress, depicting a typical Tel Aviv balcony
David Gerstein - Vehicle, one the artist's first sculptures in the early 1980s
David Gerstein - Claustrophobia, created in Paris during Gerstein's residency at the Cité internationale des arts, 1990-1991
David Gerstein - Infinity Rally
Momentum, Singapore
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He began cutting out the main subjects of each painting and, to cancel the background, creating unique and iconic cutout images, free-standing in space, without the standard and traditional square frame.
