Menashe Kadishman

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Child & horse, iron sculpture, Engel Gallery collection
Child & horse, iron sculpture, Engel Gallery collection
'Shalechet' ('Fallen Leaves') by Menashe Kadishman in the Jewish Museum Berlin [1]
'Shalechet' ('Fallen Leaves') by Menashe Kadishman in the Jewish Museum Berlin [1]

Menashe Kadishman (מנשה קדישמן Mənaššeh Qaddišman, b. Tel Aviv, 1932) is an Israeli sculptor and painter.

From 1947 to 1950 he studied with the Israeli sculptor Moshe Sternschuss at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv, and in 1954 with the Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann in Jerusalem. In 1959 he moved to London, where he remained until 1972; he had his first one-man show there in 1965 at the Grosvenor Gallery.

His sculptures of the 1960s were Minimalist in style and so designed as to appear to defy gravity. This was achieved either through careful balance and construction, as in Suspense (1966), or by using glass and metal so that the metal appeared unsupported, as in Segments (1968). The glass allowed the environment to be part of the work.

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[edit] Sheep in Menashe Kadishman's art

Sheep's Head, acrylic and objects trouves on canvas, 80x60cm
Sheep's Head, acrylic and objects trouves on canvas, 80x60cm

In his youth, between 1950 and 1953, Kadishman worked as a shepherd on a Kibbutz. This experience with nature, sheep and shepherding had a significant impact on his later artistic work and career. The first major appearance of sheep in his work was in the 1978 Venice Biennale, where Kadishman presented a flock of colored live sheep as living art. In 1995, he began painting portraits of sheep (see picture on the right), by the hundreds, and even thousands, each one different from the next. These instantly-recognizable sheep portraits soon became his artistic "trademark".

[edit] Sculptures and Public Works

[edit] United States

New York

  • 'Suspended', 1977, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville
  • 'Eight Positive Trees', 1977, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville

Oklahoma

  • 'The Sacrifice of Isaac', 1985, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman
  • 'Negative Tree', 2001, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa

Pennsylvania

  • 'Three Discs', 1967, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove

Texas

  • 'Segments', 1968, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
  • 'The Forest', 1970, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
  • 'Om', 1969, University of Houston, Houston

[edit] International

Canada

  • 'Three Discs', 1967, High Park, Toronto

Costa Rica

MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José

Germany

  • 'Falling Leaves',,Jewish Museum, Berlin
  • 'Pieta', Dominikanerkloste, Braunschweig
  • 'Negative Trees', 1974, Wedau Sports Park, Duisberg

Israel

  • 'Suspense', 1966, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • 'The Family Plaza', The International School for Holocaust Studies, Jerusalem
  • 'Akedat Issac', Tel Aviv Art Museum, Tel Aviv
  • 'Birth', 1989, The Open Museum of Israeli Art, Galilee
  • 'Tension', 1960

Japan

  • 'Prometheus', 1986-87, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

United Kingdom

Tate Britain, London (England)

Other Work

  • 'Horse'
  • 'Motherland'
  • 'Child and Horse'
  • 'Kissing Birds'
  • 'Homage to Young Couples'
  • 'Homage to Barnett Newman'
  • 'The Flock'
  • 'Cracked Earth'

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