Uri Stettner, Painter. born 1935, Tel Aviv.
Died 1999.
Studies
Avni Institute, Tel Aviv.
1960 Moved to Paris, where he lived and created for ten years.
1985 Was invited to represent France in the Paris Bienalle together with five other artists.
Awards and recognition
1965 Represented France at the Biennale in Paris
1975 Eugen Kolb, Tel Aviv Museum
Collections
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tel Aviv Museum
Haifa Museum of Modern Art and private collections abroad.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1963 Galerie du Haut-Pavé, Paris
1967 Galerie neuf, Paris
1981 to 1992 Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv.
1993 Mishkan Le'omanut, Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod
2001 Retrospective exhibition in his memory, Ramat Gan Museum of Art
2006 "Paintings", Yair Gallery, Tel Aviv
2010 "The Shadow's Shadow", Yair Gallery, Tel Aviv
Group Exhibitions
1965 "Salon Schemès 66", La musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris
1966 "Réalités nouvelle", La musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris
1968 "L'homme et son centre" Galleries varcamer et neuf, Paris
1975 "Paintings and Scultures", Livak Building Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
1985 "Two years - Israeli Art, cumulative qualities" Tel Aviv Museum, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion.
1990 "18 Künstler aus Israel", Die Pumpe, Berlin
1992 "Far from seeing, Clear seeing" The Museum of Bat Yam, Arad Museum.
1993 Nama Gallery, Tel Aviv
1994 "Art Focus - Works on paper and Small Formats", Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv
Ein Harod Art Institute, Herzliya Museum of Art, Municipal Art Gallery, Rehovot
1996 "Paintings", Art Gallery at the Memorial Center, Kiryat Tivon
2002 Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv
2008, 2012 Group Collection Exhibition, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2013 "No Pretence", Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
2014 Group Exhibition, Yair Art Gallery, Tel Aviv
Uri Stettner, a "painter's painter" and highly regarded artist, began to consolidate his particular poetics in the late '70s; characterized by an introverted and melancholic atmosphere with an economic and implied means of painting in subtle and blurred pastel colors, in which "nothingness" is more present than "what exists".
Artists named Stettner a Master of painters. His works are very sensitive, with airy brush touches in all kinds of blue and green color nuances, mainly, which invites the observer to enter into the intimate world of the artist.
Uri Stettner was an artist in all his being and art was the essence of his life.
Uri Stettner was born in Tel Aviv in 1935.
Between 1958 and 1959, he studied at the Avni Institute.
In 1960 he traveled to Paris and stayed there for about ten years, during which his paintings were exhibited in solo exhibitions and important group exhibitions, among others at the Paris Museum of Modern Art.
In 1965, Stettner and five other artists were invited to represent France at the Paris Biennale.
In 1975 he was awarded the Eugen Kolb Prize for the Tel Aviv Museum.
In 1994, he held a retrospective exhibition at the Ein Harod Museum of Art and the Herzliya Museum.
He has had solo exhibitions at Gordon Gallery, Sara Levi Gallery, and Chelouche Gallery.
His works are in the collections of the Israel Museum, the Tel Aviv Museum, the Haifa Museum of Art and private collections in Israel and abroad.
In 2001, two years after his death, a comprehensive exhibition of his works was held at the Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan.
In 2006, at the opening of Yair Gallery in Tel Aviv, an exhibition of his works was exhibited.
Style
From the end of the 1970s, his paintings are characterized by a special poetics: his lyrical, refined and melancholic style, whose colors are light and airy, his lines are hovering and dreamy, and his perception is concise.
In the center of his paintings is a solitary figure recorded from a renunciation of defined formality and details. His paintings evoke an introverted and poetic atmosphere, and they seem to see life as though through misty glass.
Yair Garbuz, the prominent Israeli artist, in an article published in the catalog dedicated to Stettner calls Uri Stettner "painter of painters":
If the term "painter of painters" has not yet been worn out, then Uri Stettner deserves it very much, in every way.
It is possible that such a painter evokes in his colleagues, apart from appreciation and love, a great stimulation for work and an encouraging feeling of ongoing dialogue. I have two of his paintings in my house, and every day I meet them with renewed interest and a feeling that his brush has always been part of my memory... ".
Illustration Books
Mosaic - translation poems "Black and White", Itamar Yeoz-Cast, 1955.
Shaku - Japanese Songs, written by Dov Rosenfarb, Edited and Translated by Itamar Yoz-Cast, Akad Publishing, 1953.
Book in his honor
Uri Shtetner – “Being portrayed”, published by the Israeli Forum of Art Museums, 1994.
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