z a m m y   z.  m i g d a l

• Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel
• Served in the Israeli Army (IDF)
  from 1975 to 1979
• B.A. Hospitality Management
  Florida international University
• Lives in Miami, Florida since 1980

FORMATIVE ACTIVITIES

• Studied metal sculpture under Carolina Sardi at the South Florida Art Center

CULTURAL INTERESTS
Zammy has a broad interest in the arts and has always been their supporter

• Currently the President of the Board of Directors of Ballet Gammonet Maximum Dance, a contemporary dance company

EXHIBITIONS

• ArtMiami 2003
• Avant Gallery, 2003
• Dot51, Art Basel 2004
• Spirit of Israel, Broward County Public Library, 2004
• When Art becomes Abstract, Cari Cohen Gallery, 2004
• Embler Gallery, 2005
• 2006 Palm Beach International
  Sculpture Biennale
• When Metal Becomes Abstract
  One Man Show
  Broward Community College
  November - December 2006
• Tides Gallery - Group Exhibit
  Art Basel At The Design District Miami
  December 2006
• Art DC - Washington, DC
  Adamar Fine Arts
  April 2007
• Many Point of View, Group Exhibit, Dot 51, Wynwood Art Disrict, Miami, Florida, May 2007
• SOFA –Sculpture Objects & Functional Art, Adamar Fine Arts, Chicago, November 2007
• Art Miami – Art Basel, Dot 51, Wynwood Art Disrict, Florida, December 2007
• SOFA (Sculpture Objects & Functional Art), Adamar Fine Arts, Park Avenue Armory, New York, May-June 2008
• Art Santa Fe International Art Fair, Adamar Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 2008
• Sofa (sculpture objects & functional art), Adamar Fine Arts, Chicago, November 2008

ART IN PUBLIC PLACES

• Metal in 25 Movements
  Wall Installation
  Miller School of Medicine - UM
  Department of Family Medicine
  Jackson Memorial Hospital
  Miami, Florida
• Zkor (Remember)
  Holacoust Memorial Monument
  Temple Beth Am
  Miami, Florida
  

Artist Statement
Creating in three dimensions is a challenge that always interested Zammy. Working with raw metal, he brings life and motion to the new and recycled metal. His work does not intend to express a vision of the world, nor specific concepts. Rather they represent images that form in his imagination, which he wants to share with others. Forms connect to each other in space or in their relationship in space. Elements and their finished texture are manipulated to reflect the inner world of fertile and vital imagination

COMMENT
Zammy Migdal shows his interest for movement and volume re-inventing it. From
scraped and raw metal, exquisitely and creatively intervened, he depicts feelings and emotional instants of life. The main subject of his sculptures is life itself, with its individuality and with the events that affect the whole community.
The high standards and techniques used by Zammy make possible for the artist to create a variety of textures and visual effects, from the rusty like appearance to shinning primary vibrant colors. Zammy Migdal finds the essence of movement, undoubtedly influenced by his interest and active support of contemporary dance. As in a paradox, using the strongest materials he delicately depicts stress, equilibrium, torsions, swings or the act of stretching. The beauty of form empathized by color or texture, is represented in his series, with suggestive titles such as Tropical Tango or Broken Sails.
Migdal's art is powerful and in each one of his sculptures the viewer can perceive
the artist's love for esthetics and harmony, Zammy celebrates the best of emotion.
In our present world where the end of creative action, the ugliness and the paralysis of thoughts are tantalizing menaces, the prolific creativeness and the dynamic message of artists like Zammy Migdal fulfill us with hope and bliss.

Maria Velia Savino
Art critic and curator