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nice to hear from you..  really like your work.
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  THANK YOU PUPILS AND NEETA OF THE WOMANS COLLEGE PUNJAB INDIA WELCOME AND VISIT MY PROFILE ON THE FACEBOOK UNDER BASIL FRANK KEEP CREATIVE BASIL
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AWARDED MY 14TH INTERNATIONAL AWARD THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL BIENNIAL GDYNIA 2010

AWARDED MY 14TH INTERNATIONAL AWARD BY THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL BIENNIAL GDYNIA 2010 FOR MY PRINT "Golum's renaissance"WITH THE STATUETTE OF THE ERA ART----- Original Message -----From: "ewelina_marciniak" a>ewelina_marciniak@o2.pl>To: "BASIL COLIN FRANK" a>bcfrank@netvision.net.il>Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 5:26 PMSubject: awardYou have been awarded with the statuette of the ERA-ART. Congratulations.We are looking forward to see you in Gdynia. The…See More
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BASIL COLIN FRANK commented on BASIL COLIN FRANK's blog post 'AWARDED MY 13th INTERNATIONAL AWARD BY THE AOMORI PRINT TRIENNIALE 2010 JAPAN'
I am elated .My work was selected by the most prestigious curators and directors of museums of Japan I note that Tadayasu Sakai was one of the jurors who awarded me the Grand Prix OSAKA TRIENNIALE PRINT 1997 for 'Jaws and White Dog'.This…
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11th International award now for sculpture by CULTUREINSIDE CI TEAM EUTOPIA NOTE GAO BROTHERS commendations

I am honoured to have been awarded my 11th international award for my sculpture The Affirmation (Aliens)by the CULTUREINSIDE CI. Team EUTOPIA jury and Curatorial committee& note the GAO BROTHERS commendationsPRESS RELEASEAnd note the Gao brothers commendations----- Original Message -----From: Gao BrothersTo: basil colin frankSent: Friday, July 09, 2010 8:14 AMSubject: Re: I am honoured to have been…See More
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Website
http://www.bcfrank.co.il
Relationship status
married
College / University
Michaelis School of Art ,University of Cape Town.St.Martins College of art ,London
Program / Degree
BAFA majored Sculpture UCT;Post Graduate Sculpture ,St.Martins.
Graduation
October 10, 1971
Member type
Artist
If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
Conceptual, Digital, Installation, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Video
I am...
Born Cape Town .Studied under Caro&King at St.Martins.1985- Diploma specialized welding, Tass School of CapeTown, South Africa. 1985 Sept, Photographed Joseph Beuys erecting his installation "Plight",Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London. Writes poetry &on art.1986 Lives and works in Jerusalem.I am a laureate artist, recipient of 10 international awards
MyArtwork is multi-disciplinary; I write poetry, and on art.
About my artwork
On winning the Grand Prix Osaka Triennial (print) 1997 Saatchi OBE wrote 1998 'I can see why so many people are excited by your work'.Late Dr. Harald Szeemann curator of the Venice , Lyon Biennales wrote Frank is a 'master of still life'. Biennale Florence, 2001. Frank awarded "Lorenzo il Magnifico" prize 2001'.-jurors Prof. John T.Spike, Prof.Barbara Rose , David S.Rubin. Rubin of San Antonio Museum- 'Frank's award-winning works was among the more cutting-edge work on view'. Biennale Florence, 2001. Charles Gerhardt Rump Editor culture. De Welt newspaper 10 /03/06 wrote; the Biennale Beijing 2005, Millennium Museum visitors lined up three rows deep around the photographs of his installations on the seashore. At the Triennale for Printing and Graphics in Cracow in 2006, Frank exhibited another life that has symbolically been regained: "Phoenix Throne" (Phoenix in Jewish Tradition). If there is a recurrent leitmotif in Frank's work, it is an almost obsessive association of death and life. From the concave pieces of palm tree bark that lie at the entrance to his studio he intends to build small boats, which he will have sailing on the Dead Sea. Live sailing on the Dead Sea, life conquers death. Frank is an admirer of Joseph Beuys, whom he had known personally and photographed. And just like the famous German artist, neither does Frank believe in art for its own sake. He is convinced that Beuys transformed modern art into a mass medium, making it accessible to a large public. "I believe that elements of my work are connected to parallel processes, which remain invisible but which crystallize and reveal macro and micro spaces. I work with large sculptures, painting and assemblage, digital graphics and continuously cross borders between genres in order to make radical, ‘violent’ and provocative gestures. On winning the Grand Prix Osaka Triennial (print) 1997 the late Dr. Michael Sgan- Cohen, artist, art-critic,Jerusalem1997 wrote his photosculptures communicate a feeling for volume and sculptural space, projecting a high- resolution sculptural presence; they make an effective and free artistic format, original and interesting. Franks works, sometimes kinky and brutal, sometimes more conceptually driven and even formalistic, once more proved to stand against a varied and international background. He is able to remain original and innovative, both in his photographic and his plastic works.

Exhibitions&Awards etc
S A Association Arts, Cape Town 1972. Site specific sculptures Clifton, Sea Point. Cape Town
Harbour Space Studios ,London 1974; 1990 SiteSpecific Dead Sea, Israel; World Contemporary
Art 1998 LosAngeles; USA, Art Expo 2000,N.Y. 40th anniversary Krakow, 2006-2009 Dvd,/Stills
prints -,Center Jewish Culture, Kazimierz, Institute Art Krakow Academy – gallery&
"Pod Jaszczurami";Eye for Art 2 Gallery. Krakow, Poland. Contemporary Art Gallery Myślenice.
Poland .Selected group shows in National museums throughout Europe and Asia including
OsakaTrienniale Print 1997, Japan.2005 Beijing Biennial,Millenium Art museum,China.
Graz Cultural Network, Austria 2007; Horst Janssen, Oldenburg; Kunstlerhaus,Vienna. 2007
Gyeongnam International Art Festival , Korea
.*Awards ; *Grand Prix -Osaka Triennial (Print) 1997, Japan. First Award World Contemporary Art, 1998 Los. Angeles; 12th German Graphic Art - Frechen 1999; International Print Triennial, - Krakow 2000; Biennale Internaz. Dell' Arte Contemp. Citta Di Firenze 2001- Lorenzo il Magnifico; International Print Triennial Krakow 2003– Award City Opole; 2007 International Art Biennial Splitgraphic 3-special award, Croatia .2007 -14th Tallinn Print Triennial,Dipl 2007 Artoteque.com -online, Dip. Excellence. Sept.2009 1st International Arts &Science Festival , honour diploma& medal award by Unesco signed by VP Maronitis Ioanis UNESCO and the University of Patras, Zervas Art Productions,the Scientific Committee of the University of Patras International Scientific Artistic Committee (I.S.A.C.),
www.experimentalproject.ro

http://mtg.triennial.cracow.pl/en/accompanying_exhibitions/showNews...

In their artistic practice computer interference into a photographic picture is successfully applied by Frank Basil Colin (Israel), Waldemar Marszałek (Poland).
"Pollinator,nativitas mortuus"
A digitally worked photo of myself caked with “Dead Sea” healing mud, a signifier in a region of conflict, juxtaposed with a beehive, a productive social hierarchy, teamwork, selflessness a visual metaphor how people value individuality and freedom of choice versus sometimes confronting communities of diverse religious and moral issues dealing with birth &death.

http://www.sculpture.org/portfolio/sculptorPage.php?sculptor_id=100...
http://www.myartspace.com/viewer/gallery/?subscriberid=f3dkm52he9qi...
Artists I like
Egyptian;Mayan; Aztec;Cycladic art;Khoisan peoples;Giotto;Michaelangelo;Bernini;Donatello;Rembrandt ;Velasquez;Goya;Pierre Della Francesco;Van Gogh; Picasso ; Juan Gris; Francis Bacon Robert Rauschenberg - Georges Braque- Wassily Kandinsky; Constantin Brancusi- Kasimir Malevich- Jasper Johns; Frida Kahlo; Rene Magritte;Martin Kippenberger Paul Klee;Seurat;Paul Cezanne; - Pierre Bonnard; Marcel Duchamp;Henri Matisse;Jackson Pollock;Andy Warhol;Willem De Kooning;Donald Judd; Bruce Nauman;Alberto Giacometti;Salvador Dalí;Mark Rothko;Richard Serra;Henri Cartier-Bresson; Jean-Michel Basquiat; - Max Ernst; Diane Arbus;Alberto Burri;Arnulf Rainer ;Cy Twombly;Max Beckmann; Roy Lichtenstein- Edvard Munch;Man Ray;Henry Moore;Cindy Sherman;Tracey Emin; Damien Hirst;Yves Klein;Arshile Gorky; Umberto Boccioni;Eva Hesse;Carl Andre- Lucio Fontana;- David Smith; Joseph Beuys;Alexander Calder;Louise Bourgeois;Gerhard Richter;Bruce Naumann;Antoni Gaudi; Anselm Kiefer;Alexander Archipenko;Constantine Brancusi;Henry Moore;Phillip King;Anthony Caro;David Smith; Claes Oldenburg;Cy Twombly; Anish Kapoor; Jean Arp ;Josef Albers; Anish Kapoor ;Mark Rothko;Robert Motherwell ; Kasimir Malevich;Alexander Rodchenko ;Jackson Pollock;Franz Kline
Interests
History,Shoah ,Geneaology,Parapsychology phenomena;astronomy.Classics,Strauss;Choral to Contemporary music -Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Stockhausen, Pendericke,Messiaen .Ligati;etc. Sitar and Eastern melody.
What exhibitions are good at the moment?
PRESS RELEASE

BASIL COLIN FRANK ( Israel ) bcfrank@netvision.net.il

http://www.cultureinside.com/en/eutopia-online-exhibition.aspx/view...

http://www.cultureinside.com/homeen.aspx

I am honoured to have been awarded my 11th international award for my sculpture The Affirmation (Aliens)by the CULTUREINSIDE CI. Team, EUtopia jury and Curatorial committee
The award-winning ceremony will take place at the ABBAYE DE NEUMUNSTER LUXEMBOURG ON JULY 28 2010
EUtopia received the label "2010 European Year for combatting Poverty and Social Exclusion" for Luxembourg
Exhibition: JULY 28 - SEPTEMBER 15 2010
Regular exhibition opening hours 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
The CCRN is located at 28, rue Münster - L 2160 Luxembourg.
Tél.: (+352) 26 20 52 1
Read about the CCRN


Curatorial committee

1. Jef Bourgeau, artistic director of the MONA - Museum of Modern Art Detroit, USA
2. Gila Paris, artist and curator assistant, Luxembourg
3. Cristina Lopez, Chair of C-EYE artist connection, Luxembourg
4. Joe Rabie, photographer et mulitmedia expert, Paris, France
5. Frank Shifreen, artist, teacher, curateur, New York City, USA

http://www.cultureinside.com/en/eutopia-online-exhibition.aspx/view...
Centre of the artworld:
my studio, online, nowhere and everywhere, another city

Premio Arte Laguna: I am very happy to note my photographic work "Some of my best friends" has been selected as a finalist

Basil Frank via Premio Arte Laguna: I am very happy to note my photographic work "Some of my best friends" has been selected as a finalist by Alessandro Trabucco (Art Critic and Independent Curator)
President of the Jury - photographic art section
ARTEART PRIZELAGUNA2009
BASIL COLIN FRANK ISRAEL/SOUTH AFRICA Finalists of the 4th International Arte Laguna Prize
www.artelagunaprize.com
Applications now being accepted for the 4° International Prize Arte Laguna. The Prize is subdivided in three sections: Painting, Sculpture and photographic art.

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At 12:52pm on March 9, 2011, neetaneeta said…
nice to hear from you..  really like your work.
At 5:34am on July 13, 2010, neetaneeta said…
enjoyed your work.............. students and faculty of visual and performing arts. BBK DAV college for women , amritsar, punjab, india( neetamohindra21@yahoo.co.in)
At 4:12pm on May 15, 2010, moiramoira said…
Art is art everywhere!
At 11:06am on March 20, 2010, Kamila SzadajKamila Szadaj said…
That's great. I was hoping you are a wise man :)

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don't take umbrage at me ;), I admire your works

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AWARDED MY 14TH INTERNATIONAL AWARD THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL BIENNIAL GDYNIA 2010

AWARDED MY 14TH INTERNATIONAL AWARD BY THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL BIENNIAL GDYNIA 2010 FOR MY PRINT "Golum's renaissance"WITH THE STATUETTE OF THE ERA ART

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AWARDED MY 13th INTERNATIONAL AWARD BY THE AOMORI PRINT TRIENNIALE 2010 JAPAN

AWARDED MY 13th INTERNATIONAL AWARD BY THE AOMORI PRINT TRIENNIALE 2010 JAPAN - Jury’s Special Award

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11th International award now for sculpture by CULTUREINSIDE CI TEAM EUTOPIA NOTE GAO BROTHERS commendations

I am honoured to have been awarded my 11th international award for my sculpture The Affirmation (Aliens)by the CULTUREINSIDE CI. Team EUTOPIA jury and Curatorial committee& note the GAO BROTHERS commendations



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Posted on July 20, 2010 at 2:00pm

BASIL COLIN FRANK

4th edition of the Arte Laguna Prize

I have been selected out of 7,000 applications for the 4th edition of the Arte Laguna Prize



From: Premio Arte Laguna - finalisti [mailto:finalisti@premioartelaguna.it]

Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 9:18 PM

To: bcfrank@netvision.net.il

Subject: INVITATION: Gala Evening at Venice Arsenale



Dear Artist,



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