Belu-Simion Fainaru

Sham (There), a 1996 stone, glass and iron architectural sculpture by Belu-Simion Fainaru

Belu-Simion Fainaru (born 1959) is an Israeli sculptor who was born in Bucharest, Romania and immigrated to Israel in 1973. He studied at the University of Haifa from 1980 to 1983 and earned an MA from the University of Chicago in 1984. He continued his art education at the Domus Academy, Postgraduate School of Design in Milan, Italy and at The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium in Brussels. Fainaru lives and works in Haifa, Israel and in Antwerp, Belgium.

Much of Fainaru’s work deals with Jewish history, Jewish rituals, and Jewish literature.

References

• Brockhaus, Christoph, Kulturräume, Skulptur seit 1970, Joseph Beuys, Belu-Simion Fainaru, Lutz Fritsch, Palle Seiersen Frost, Dani Karavan, Köln, DuMont, 1999, ISBN 3-7701-5048-1.
• The Israel Museum, Jerusalem