Natan Karczmar
Natan Karczmar (born January 3, 1933 in Paris), is a cultural organizer in the fields of theater and the diffusion of art, mainly in France, Canada, and Israel. He is also an artist in the art of communication as well as a painter and photographer.
A continuous aspect of his work is the realization of projects devoted to the diffusion of art. Pioneer in audiovisual diffusion of art through film, video and Internet, Natan Karczmar organizes in 1954 a festival of films on art in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, in Israel. Moving to Montreal, Quebec, She creates the Canadian Museum of Film on Art in 1956 and distributes the programs in 40 Canadian cities. In 1960, he organizes the Mexican Museum of Film on Art (Museo Mexicano de Peliculas sobre Art), and in 1962, the American Institute of Film on Art. In 1963, a meeting of the International Museum of Film on Art was held in Montreal.
Simultaneously, Natan Karczmar starts in 1957 the theater of the Centre canadien d'Essai or Canadian Workshop Center at the Fine Art School of Montreal. He presents one hundred productions until 1964, combining theater, and mainly one act plays, contemporary dance, poetry and music. In 1958, he organizes the Salon de la Jeune Peinture, sculpture and graphic arts.
In 1983, back in Israel, Natan Karczmar went on with his theatrical activity by creating the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Street Theater showing his play The Sandclock (Noa's adventures).
Related to the Centre Canadien d'Essai, Natan Karczmar publishes several Cahiers d'Essai and created the Editions d'Essai. Published were the Young Poetry Award J'ai choisi la mort by Guy Lafond as well as Ballades du temps précieux by Pierre Perrault illustrated by Anne Treze. Natan Karczmar started also the Editions Graph which published albums by the following sculptors and printmakers from Quebec: Armand Vaillancourt, Albert Roussil, Anne Kahane, Marcel Braitstein, Roland Giguère, Léon Bellefleur, Stanley Lewis and André Montpetit. In 1967, he publishes the first book on Canadian sculpture at the occasion of the World Fair Terre des Hommes in Montreal with a presentation by William Withrow and a foreword by Natan Karczmar. The photography was by Bruno Massenet.
Video publishing: Art Planet, the interactive museum. In 1989, Natan Karczmar created the bimonthly Art Planet video magazine which was distributed in one hundred modern and contemporary art museums around the world. In the framework of Art Planet, he organizes the Interactive Museum with real time visits at distance of museum exhibitions by using amplified telephone, video and slides, prefiguring thus Internet visioconferencing. The first presentation of the Interactive Museum happened in 1989 at the Art Planet Pavillon with the collaboration of the French FR3 broadcasting station, at the Grand palais, in Paris, during L'Europe des Créateurs event. Interactive Museum events were also held in 1992 at the UNESCO International Council of Museums congress in Quebec. He presented Art Planet in 1989 at the Canadian museums meeting at the Canadian Museum of Civilisation, in Hull, in Canada, and at the American museums meeting in New-Orleans, USA.
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