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| THE COMMON GROUND The Sculpture of Oded Halahmy Price: $10 Introduction by Donal Kuspit Pub. Date: 2002 |
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| ODED HALAHMY: Intimate Art Objects Paperback, 46pp Price: $20 Pub. Date: October 2000 |
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Intimate Art Objects
Ever since I was a child, I have always designed, sketched, painted, sculpted and hand-built intimate objects. I love these objects, love making them and then sharing them with friends, old and new. Ideas for these pieces all happen at home. I am very comfortable there. I designed and built my home to fit my needs. It is a quiet, simple, beautiful place, and what I build takes on the mood of my own space. Before working, I have to clear my mind. Then, inspiration comes to create. Only when my mind is clear do I begin to conceive these shapes and start to build them. I must feel peaceful and harmonious. Objects emerge and then I create them, from a sense of well-being and calm. All the forms, shapes and images in my art objects come from life around me, forms from my dreams, from what I see and from my own large sculptures. I sculpt my functional art objects the same way I sculpt my larger work. First, I make them from wood. I work on these objects with no sense of time or pressure. Some take a while and others are more immediate. I sculpt only when I work with materials that suit my shapes. They are all different metals, from gold to aluminum. The shape determines what metal I choose. Each object has its own personality. They can all stand alone, physically and spiritually. They are strong and independent. All parts of the objects that I am sculpting must have relationship and harmony, like "Live Bodies." I think that primitive sculpture always looks elegant and modern. For me, successful functional art must be beautiful, gentle and sensuous. As my father used to say to me, "People need to eat with their eyes." I agree, and so I've created these intimate objects. Oded Halahmy, New York City |
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| IN RETROSPECT Sculpture from 1962-1997 Hardcover, 240pp, $40 ISBN: 0965983803 Pub. Date: September 1997 For a signed copy of this book send check or money order to: Oded Halahmy 141 Prince St. 5th Floor New York, NY 10012 |
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| Review by Gerrit Henry: It is with something of a pleasant shock that one approaches the work of Oded Halahmy. Halahmy is a sculptor working in the great modernist tradition of David Smith and Anthony Caro, making no excuses for his heritage. Yet he is not imitative of Caro, Smith or Henry Moore. Halahmy abstracts his forms from nature. This is crucial to his process. He says, “I try to sculpt my roots, my past. ” Halahmy’s success is in sculpting his Middle Eastern roots in contemporary terms. In his work, Halahmy distinguishes himself not only from his contemporaries, but also from his immediate forebears, no mean achievement in this day of decorative and derivative work. Halahmy, aware of the reductio ad absurdum of contemporary modernism, still manages to trascend it, by personal vision and aesthetic intelligence. And it is to individuals like Halahmy that modernism will owe its ongoing success. Gerrit Henry is an art critic and Senior Editor of The Print Collector’s Newsletter |
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