{"id":84121,"date":"2016-06-06T17:17:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T14:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/song-of-ascent-a-new-sculpture-at-technion\/"},"modified":"2016-06-06T17:17:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T14:17:50","slug":"song-of-ascent-a-new-sculpture-at-technion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/song-of-ascent-a-new-sculpture-at-technion\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of Ascent: a New Sculpture at Technion"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the opening session of the 2016 Board of Governors, it was revealed that a new sculpture designed by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/danikaravan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dani Karavan <\/a><\/span>will be installed at the Technion. The sculpture, <em>Shir Hamaalot<\/em> (Song of Ascent) is a stainless steel spiral, 18 meters high, designed by Karavan especially for the Technion. \u00a0It will stand in the square adjacent to the new student dorms which are currently under construction on campus. <\/span><\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19356\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bog4.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-19356\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/bog4-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Model of the new statue to grace Technion: Song of Ascent by Dani Karavan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karavan, who received an honorary doctorate from the Technion in 2009, explains that he decided on the spiral shape of the sculpture \u201cbecause of the shape and also because of what it symbolizes. In the heart of the spiral, I placed four \u201cladders\u201d made of blue neon lines that come together to form a sort of scaffold. I am examining the possibility of having the light rise through them up to the top, over and over again. In addition, four laser beams will emerge upwards from the ends of the ladders.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under Karavan\u2019s guidance, students from the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion made a model of the sculpture, especially for today\u2019s opening events of the 2016 Board of Governors. The model is on display in the Taub Faculty of Computer Science building. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prof. Gabriel Goldschmidt from the Technion Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning said: \u201cThis work is unique in Karavan\u2019s body of work, since most of his works are environmental and are not considered sculptures. It is a great privilege for the Technion to have a work by one of the most important artists working in Israel today on its campus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the opening session of the 2016 Board of Governors, it was revealed that a new sculpture designed by Dani Karavan will be installed at the Technion. The sculpture, Shir Hamaalot (Song of Ascent) is a stainless steel spiral, 18 meters high, designed by Karavan especially for the Technion. \u00a0It will stand in the square&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/song-of-ascent-a-new-sculpture-at-technion\/\">Continue Reading<span> Song of Ascent: a New Sculpture at Technion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Song of Ascent: a New Sculpture at Technion - \u05d4\u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df-\u05de\u05db\u05d5\u05df \u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/song-of-ascent-a-new-sculpture-at-technion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Song of Ascent: a New Sculpture at Technion - \u05d4\u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df-\u05de\u05db\u05d5\u05df \u05d8\u05db\u05e0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d9 \u05dc\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At the opening session of the 2016 Board of Governors, it was revealed that a new sculpture designed by Dani Karavan will be installed at the Technion. 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