Jehoshua Rozenman
Jehoshua Rozenman (יהושע רוזנמן, born June 21, 1955 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is a Dutch/Israeli sculptor. Rozenman moved to the Netherlands in 1979 when he was accepted as a student to the Rijksacademie voor Beeldende Kunsten (National Academy of Arts) in Amsterdam. He graduated in 1984, and became a Dutch citizen and then stayed in the Netherlands. Rozenman worked for six years in New York and Amsterdam beginning in 2007. Rozenman relocated to Berlin, Germany in 2013. Rozenman divides his time living and travelling between Germany and the Netherlands. In 2006, he married the Dutch Democrats 66  politician and human rights activist Boris Dittrich. Description of his sculptures. Working with glass as a material fascinates Rozenman. Glass is fragile and vulnerable, but at the same time it is everlasting. Glass can be clear or non-translucent like ceramic, and fragile, or to the contrary, hard and unbreakable. Rozenman's method of working with glass resembles that of a smith, the way he melts a lump of glass in his oven, and then works the glass into abstract shapes. Rozenman's sculptures remind patrons of small architectonic structures, residues of an industrial building in decay; motors and machines  rusted through the passing of endless time, or prehistoric creatures fossilized in a piece of amber; the remains of a world that ceased to exist thousands of years ago. The sculptures make a robust impression, threatening, but at the same time they are ambivalent, because decay, and the object's transitory nature are themes that are recurring in his work. Rozenman's sculptures are objects whose essences existed in the past, but seem that they have no present function. What remains is purity and beauty in an unconventional way. Solo exhibitions in museums. Rozenman started his career as a painter . In the late nineties he worked with video and in 2005 he began as a sculptor using glass as material, melting it in an oven. Rozenman was successful throughout his career. He exhibited with solo shows in several museums in the world. Exhibitions in galleries. In the course of the years Rozenman had many exhibitions in galleries. His work has been shown in galleries in Amsterdam, Hoofddorp, the Hague, Utrecht, Leiden, Dordrecht, Groningen, Haarlem, Antwerp, Oostende, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Munich and New York. Art films and documentaries. Rozenman made several art films and a documentary. Books: