Nahum Tevet

Nahum Tevet
Photograph of Nahum Tevet
Born	1946 Kibbutz Mesilot, Israel
Nationality	Israeli, Jewish
Education	Avni Institute of Art and Design, Tel Aviv
Known for	Sculpture
Movement	Israeli art

Nahum Tevet (Hebrew: נחום טבת‎‎) is an Israeli sculptor. Tevet's conceptual work uses minimalism and other references (such as Bauhaus), creating sculptural/architectural installations based on geometrical modules.

Nahum Tevet was born in 1946, in Kibbutz Mesilot, Israel. He lives and works in Tel Aviv. In 1962, he studied at the Oranim Seminar in Kiryat Tiv'on. In 1968, he attended the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. In 1969-1971, he studied with Raffi Lavie.

Nahum Tevet was the most extreme of the Israeli Minimalists in the mid-1970s. He saw creativity as a process based on a system of abstentions and reductions; the aim of the creative process being to impart the essence of the plastic medium. However, at least two qualities in his work break the rules of Minimalism: the lyric quality of his color and line, and the frequent resemblance of his works to real objects, like tables or beds. This utilitarian element was later to be developed in sculpture in the West.

In 1980 Nachum Tevet was appointed to the faculty of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and served as director of its M.F.A. program for the years 2001-2010.

Arrangement of Six Units, 1973-74

Corner, 1974
Tel Aviv Museum of Art Collection

Narcissus, 1982

Jemmáin, 1986
Kunsthalle Mannheim Collection

Painting Lesson, no 5, 1986
Israel Museum Collection

Underground Event, 1997
Glaskasten Sculpture Museum, Marl Collection

Several Things, 2008

At the Same Time, 2010