'The Changing Chanukkiya' - Heavy Aluminum Work by Azriel (Zelig) Segal. Israel the 20th Century

'The Changing Chanukkiya' - Heavy Aluminum Work by Azriel (Zelig) Segal. Israel the 20th Century

Unique modern work of art by the important Bezalel artist Zelig Segal. 

Anodized aluminum skillfully and creatively designed by the important Israeli designer Zelig Segal to form The Changing Chanukkiya. The Chanukkiya is made of two intersecting circles forming 4 semi-circles. Each side of every semi-circle is designated for the lighting of the Hanukkah candles. Thus, Zelig geniously created 8 possible options for lighting the candles with this Chanukkiya. 

10X10 cm. 2,615 gr. Signed in English. 

Zelig Segal: an Israeli designer, sculptor and Judaica artist whose boundless innovativeness suprised and impressed anyone who saw his works of art, which were both functional and decorative. 

Zelig was born in Jerusalem in 1933 and grew up in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood. His mother was the midwife of the Yishuv of Hebron and his father, a Melamed of the Etz Chaim Talmud Torah of the Mazkeret Moshe neighborhood. In his youth, he studied in a Cheider and later, at the Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva and the Torat Emet Yeshiva of Chabad.

When he was 16, assisted by a scholarship he received from David Ben Gurion, Segal began studying at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and during the years 1949-1954, studied at the Metal department, specializing in sculpturing and metal design. Already in Bezalel he became interested in modern Judaica, as he put it, which combined the religious prohibition of making sculptures and pictures and the design style he was taught by his teachers at Bezalel, who were graduates of the Bauhause: David Heinz Gumbel and Yehuda Wolpert. Segal lived in Jerusalem, working at a workshop in the Hutzot Hayotzer artists' colony of the town. Passed away in 2015.

"Who is Zelig Segal? A man of contradictions: since Zelig Segal is an inventor, a man playing freely yet at the same time, limiting the form and matter he uses. A visual rationalist who bears within deep sorrow. He is an artist seeking simultaneously unity and division, the permanent and the changing. Yet, above all, Zelig Segal is an artist who is enslaved to what is beautiful, a creator who confirms with his designs the three classical unities of beauty - unity of multiplicity, unity of the sensory and unity of infinity in what is finite" (the art scholar Gideon Ofrat).

A special modern and creative work of art.  

Weight:	769 gr
Measurement:	15 x 17 cm
Depth:	15 cm