Menashe Kadishman: War 1977-78 RARE / Israeli Jewish Contemporary Conceptual Art

Description: Menashe Kadishman 1932 - 2015, Tel Aviv, Israel War, 1977-78 RARE, Original Hand-Signed Screen Print Documented in the book "Menashe Kadishman - Prints", published by the Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, 2005 (p. 102, item 95). Printed at Har-El Printers and Publishers, Jaffa-Tel Aviv. Artist Name: Menashe Kadishman Title: War Signature Description: Hand-signed in English on the left, Marked "H.C." lower right Technique: Screen print Size: 50 x 65 cm / 19.69" x 25.59" inch Frame: Unframed Condition: Very good condition Artist's Biography: Menashe Kadishman, an Israeli sculptor and painter, 1932-2015. Menashe Kadishman was born in Tel Aviv in 1932. When he was 15 when his father died and Kadishman left school to help support his family, while taking evening art classes with Aharon Avni. In 1950 he joined the Nahal Brigade in the Army, and was assigned to Ma'ayan Baruch, on the borders of Lebanon, Syria and Israel. He worked as a shepherd, which affected many of his works. Kadishman is famous for his colorful sheep portraits, which he began painting in 1995. From 1947 to 1950, Kadishman studied with the Israeli sculptor Moshe Sternschuss at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, and in 1954 with the Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann in Jerusalem. In 1959, he moved to London, where he attended the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the Slade School of Art. During 1959 and 1960 he also studied with Anthony Caro and Reg Butler. He remained in London until 1972.and witnessed the development of pop-art. 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. In October 1982 the Lebanon War broke out and his son was drafted. He began to paint large compositions of heroism and death, the horrors of war and the sacrifice of Isaac. Kadishman felt he was Abraham – sacrificing his own son on the altar of the Supreme Order – the Country's order. In 1988 Kadishman began a new series: Birth, with a silhouette of a mother giving birth, and created hundreds of variations of the theme. He linked the birth with the sacrifice. In the Sacrifice of Isaac Sarah becomes an active partner, as she symbolizes the mothers of the fallen soldiers. Menashe Kadishman lived and worked in Tel – Aviv, where he passed away in 2015 Education 1947-50 Sculpture, with Moshe Sternschuss, Avni Institute of Art and Design, Tel Aviv 1951 Course in decorative arts, with Leo Roth and Aharon Giladi, Afikim 1954 Studied sculpture, with Rudi Lehman 1959-60 Art, St. Martin's School of Art, London 1961 Art, Slade School, London Teaching 1964-1966 Wimbledon College of Arts, London 1966-1968 Visiting Professor at the School of Arts in Reading, Canterbury, Winchester, England 1968-1972 Central School of Art, London, England Awards and Prizes 1951 Scholarship for Rudi Lehmann class, Union of the Kvutzot and the Kibbutzim 1960 The America-Israel Cultural Fund Scholarship 1961 Grant from Sainsbury Fund, London 1967 Prize for Sculpture, Paris Biennale 1978 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1981 Eugene Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Arts, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 1981 Jury Prize, Norwegian International Print Biennale, Fredrikstad 1984 The Mendel and Eva Pundik Foundation Prize for an Israeli Artist, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 1990 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa 1995 Prize for Sculpture, Ministry of Education and Culture 2002 Honorary Fellowship, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv 2007 Honorary degree, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan Menashe Kadishman (August 21, 1932 - May 8, 2015) was an Israeli sculptor and painter.Kadishman artworks are presented in central locations in Israel, such as Habima Square and his paintings can be found in many different galleries in Israel. He is most famous for his metallic sculptors and colorful sheep paintings.Biography From 1947 to 1950, Kadishman studied with the Israeli sculptor Moshe Sternschuss at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv, and in 1954 with the Israeli sculptor Rudi Lehmann in Jerusalem. In 1959, he moved to London, where he attended Saint Martin's School of Art and the Slade School of Art. During 1959 and 1960 he also studied with Anthony Caro and Reg Butler. He remained here 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. Kadishman lived and created in his house in the city center of Tel Aviv. Kadishman was divorced, has 2 children. His son, Ben, is also a painter and his daughter, Maya Kadishman is an actress and married to the artists, Eran Shakine. On May 8, 2015 Kadishman died after he was hospitalized at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer.Motifs In his youth, between 1950 and 1953, Kadishman worked as a shepherd on Kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch. 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 by the hundreds, and even thousands, each one different from the next. These instantly-recognizable sheep portraits soon became his artistic "trademark". Exhibited 1967 at 5th Paris Biennale; 1972 and 1978 Venice Biennale; 1979 Print Biennale, Tokyo, Japan; 1985 18th Sao Paulo Biennale.Sculptures and Public Works United StatesNew York'Suspended', 1977, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville'Eight Positive Trees', 1977, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville'Sheep', 1979, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY'Untitled', 1981, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY'Shepherdess', 1984, The Jewish Museum, New York, NYOklahoma'The Sacrifice of Isaac', 1985, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman'Negative Tree', 2001, Philbrook Museum of Art, TulsaPennsylvania'Three Discs', 1967, Susquehanna University, SelinsgroveTexas'Segments', 1968, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas'The Forest', 1970, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas'Om', 1969, University of Houston, Houston Canada'Three Discs', 1967, High Park, Toronto Costa RicaMADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José Germany Piëta, Braunschweig 'Falling Leaves', Jewish Museum, Berlin 'Pieta', Dominikanerkloster, Braunschweig 'Negative Trees', 1974, Wedau Sports Park, DuisburgIsrael 1960 Tension, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1964 Uprise,a heavy steel sculpture near the Theatre and Performing Arts Center stage. Tel Aviv 1966 In Suspense, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1967 In Suspense, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 1967-74 The Tree Circles, Tel Aviv 1975 In Suspense, University of Tel Aviv, TelAviv 1975 In Suspense, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yaffo 1977 Circles, The Hebrew University, Har Hatsofim, Jerusalem 1979 Continuum, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 1982-1985 Akedat Issac, Tel Aviv Art Museum, Tel Aviv 1984 - Hill of the Sheep, The Tefen Open Museum of Israeli Art, Galilee 1985 Akedat Issac, University of Tel, Tel Aviv-Yaffo 1985, Trees Israel Museum Billy Rose Sculpture Art Garden, Jerusalem, Israel 1989 Birth, The Open Museum of Israeli Art, Galilee 1990 Trees, Rehavia, Jerusalem 1990 Birth, near the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art. Herzliya 1994 Motherland, Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yaffo 1995 The Family Plaza, The International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Veshem, Jerusalem 1998 Scream, Lola Beer Ebner Sculpture Garden, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv-Yaffo 2004 Portrait of Shimon Finkel on the facade of Tel Aviv City Hall 2006 Memorial monument for the Etzel, Haganah and Lehi underground organizations, Ramat GanJapan 'Prometheus', 1986–87, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo United KingdomTate Britain, London (England)Hollyfield, Harlow (England) Solo Exhibitions2017 References, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv 2015 Menashe Kadishman, Pavilion 16, The Levant Fair, Tel Aviv Port Tribute to Menashe Kadishman, Montefiore Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 2014 Menashe Kadisman: Vally of Sadness, Interim Summary 2012-2014, Municipal Gallery, Kfar Saba 2012 Kadishman you have never known, Kibutz Mahanaim Gallery 2011 From nature to art, The Negev Museum of Art, Be'er Sheva 2009 Tulips, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan 2007 Menashe Kadishman, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery, Torino 2006 Kadishman at the Sea of Galilee, Beit Gabriel, Zemah Kadishman paints horses, Mahanayim Gallery, Kibbutz Mahanayim 2005 Menashe Kadishman – Prints, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2003 Menashe Kadishman: Eretz Moledet, Galerie im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany 2002 Menashe Kadishman - The Herd, Okashi Museum, Old Akko Menashe Kadishman - In the Valley of Sorrow, Ghetto Fighters' House Art Gallery, Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot + Kibutz Gallery Rosh Hanikra 2002 Women, Avni Institute of Art and Design, Tel Aviv 2001 Menashe Kadishman - A Heap, Mahanayim Gallery, Kibbutz Mahanayim Beit Kaner, Municipal Art Gallery, Rishon LeZion Menashe Kadishman - The Herd, Rishon le-Zion - Artists Asc., Rishon Le Zion 1998 Menashe Kadishman - Imagery 1978-1998, Hagaleria Haacheret, Tel Aviv Menashe Kadishman -Valley of Sadness, Hildesheim Museum, Germany De Beyerd Museum, Breda, The Netherlands Menashe Kadishman: Shalechet (“Fall”), Art Affairs Gallery, Amsterdam 1997 Menashe Kadishman, The National Gellery for Art, Beijing, China Mizpe Hayamim Gallery, Rosh Pina Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv 1996 Nahshon Gallery, Kibbutz Nahshon Menashe Kadishman: Drawings, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1995 Menashe Kadishman - Solo Exhibition, Cabri Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kibbutz Cabri + Kibutz Gallery Rosh Hanikra + Ghetto Fighters' House Art Gallery, Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot Drawings and Sculpture - Mobile Exhibition, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv 1994 Menasseh Kadishman - From Drawing to Sculpture, Haifa Auditorium 1992 Love Painted With Love Only, University of Haifa Art Gallery Menashe Kadishman: Sculpture and Drawings, Annely Juda Fine Art, London 1990 Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv Awarding Ceremony of Meir Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Menashe Kadishman: Recent Sculptures, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1988 Menashe Kadishman: Opferung Isaaks, Chamber Music Hall, Berlin, 1987 Myth Transformed: Painting and Monumental Sculpture of Menashe Kadishman, The Tel Aviv Museum Plaza, Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Hall, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1986 Menasha Kadishman: Drawings, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv Sacrifice of Issac: Paintings and Sculpture, Centrum voor Beeldene Kunst, Breda, Holland 1985 Kadishman, Beest Gallery, Gravenhage, Holland Sacrifice of Isaac, Jewish Museum, New York 1985 18th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo 1984 Kadishman 1984, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv 1982 Tribute to Menashe, Ha' Kibbutz, Israeli Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 1981 Menashe Kadishman, The Yellow Lamb and The Metal Grove, University of Haifa Gallery 1979 New Works, Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv 1978 Sheep Project: The Nature as Art and Art as Nature, The Israeli Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy 1976 M. Kadishman: Glass, Rina Gallery, New York, USA 1975 'Forest'' by Menashe Kadishman, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1972 Menashe Kadishman: Konzepte und Ihre Verwirklichung, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany 1968 Menashe Kadishman, Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto Kadishman: Sculpture, Goldberg Gallery, EdinburghSelected Group Exhibitions 2019 Unwillful Movement, Jerusalem Print Workshop 2018 Journey in Time, Artists' House, Jerusalem Mess, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion Unforgettable Childhood, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv All in the Family: Family Legacy in Israeli Art, Senate Gallery, Ben-Gurion University , Beer Sheva The Map: Reading Between the Lines, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv 2017 Following, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv Panda, The Gallery of the German Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2016 Behold the Man: Jesus in Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2015 Israeli Art: The Renewed Collection Galleries, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1965 Today, Israel Museum, Jerusalem The Museum Presents Itself 2, Israeli Art from the Museum Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2014 Revelations, Jerusalem Print Workshop Visual arts inspired performing arts, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv 2013 A Sculptor Creates an Etching, Gottesman Etching Center, Kabri Print Time: Works from the Jerusalem Workshop and the Gottesman Center, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park 2012 Like a Butterfly to a Flame - Traces of Reality, Municipal Gallery, Kfar Saba King David and I, Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv Local Color: Art from the Helela Tal collection, The Negev Museum of Art, Be'er Sheva 2011 THE MUSEUM PRESENTS ITSELF: Israeli Art from the Museum Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Nimrod's Descendents, Artists' House, Jerusalem Seeing Rock'n'Roll - Visual Dimension of the Israeli Rock, Tel Aviv Artists House May 1st in Nirim, Wolfgang Meyer Etching Workshop, Kibbutz Nirim Father's Friends, Vertigo Village, Kibbutz Netiv Halamed Heh 2010 – 2015 Permanent Exhibition: Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem AC118R Water-Based Red Idealogical Colour, Wolfgang Meyer Etching Workshop, Kibbutz Nirim Leaders, Petach Tikvah Museum of Art 2009 Land and Sea, Jerusalem Print Workshop Nature Nation, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem Constellation: Israeli Contemporary Art, Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery, Turin, Italy Three-dimensional, Two-dimensional, Ashdod Art Museum Last Edition: Newspaper as Art Material in Contemporary Israeli Art, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 2008 Van Gogh in Tel Aviv: Israeli Artists in Dialogue with Van Gogh, Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv Feeling and Meaning, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem In memory - Hanoch Levin, Tal Gallery, Kfar Vradim My Own Body: Art in Israel, 1968 – 1978, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 2007 Portfolios, The Korin Maman Ashdod Museum 2006 Mutual Existence, Painters and Sculptors Association in Israel, Haifa and the North Portfolios From The Gottesman Center, Kibbutz Cabri, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Raffi Lavie Collection, Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod 2005 Etched Voices, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 2004 Printing Color, Jerusalem Print Workshop 2003 30 Outdoor Sculptures - Tel Aviv University Campus, Tel Aviv University Art Gallery In Memory - Hanoch Levin, The Cameri Theatre of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv Um El Fahem Art Gallery 2002 From Nahum Gutman's Donkey to Messiah's Donkey - The Donkey as an Image in the Israeli Culture, The Gutman Museum - The Writers House, Tel Aviv Artists Against Occupation, Beit Uri and Rami Nehushtan Museum, Kibbutz Ashdot Yaakov Meuhad 2001 localities.il - Israeli Art from the Collection and Elsewhere, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Love at First Sight: The Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 2000 Inauguration of new building designed by Serge Spitzer - Open House & Group Exhibition, 547 Main Street, (Quiogue) Westhampton Beach, NY 1999 90th Anniversary of Tel Aviv-Yafo: Contemporary Cityscapes - Israeli and American Artists, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1998 Vision of Light: A Century of Watercolor in Israel, Israel Museum, Jerusalem To the East - Orientalism in the Arts in Israel, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Israel - Entre Reve et Realite, Musée Juif de Belgique, Brussels Israeli Art - 50 years of the State of Israel, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco The Boundaries of Language, Perspectives on Israeli Art of the Seventies, Tel Aviv Museum of Art Cinquantenaire de l'Etat d'Israel, Centre d'Art et de Culture de la rue Braco - Espace Rachi, Paris Tikkun - Aspects in Israeli Art of the 70's, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 1997 Lea Nikel - Paintings, Menashe Kadishman - Sculptures and Sketches, Turkish Railway Gallery, Be'er Sheva 1996 Jerusalem in Israeli Art, from the Museum's Collection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Through a Man's Eyes, Pyramida Art Center, Haifa Windows: Glimpses of Seven Themes in Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Artists Messengers of Peace, Artists' House, Jerusalem 1995 Preview from the Rita and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1995 Tel Hai 75 years, Images and Interpretations of Works of Five Artists, Tel Hai Arts Institute Gallery Dan Zakheim: Anniversary of His Death, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1994 The Printer's Imprint: Twenty Years with the Jerusalem Print Workshop, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Along New Lines: Israeli Drawing Today, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Art Focus, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan + Ein Hod Sculpture Biennale + The Israeli Phoenix, Tel Aviv Longing... Avraham Ofek, Taamon, Coffee - Gallery, Jerusalem 1993 Touching the Matter Touching the Spirit, Sara Levi Gallery, Tel Aviv Arte Contemporaneo Israeli, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires 1992 Print +, The Korin Maman Ashdod Museum + Municipal Art Gallery, Smilansky Cultural Center, Rehovot Works on Paper From the 1970s, Artifact Gallery, Jaffa 1991 Israeli Contemporary Sculpture: Place & Mainstream, Hara Museum ARC, Gunma Prefecture, Japan + The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan Back to Painting in Israeli Prints, Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 1990 Homage to Stematzky, Tel Aviv Artists' Studios 1989 Reuion: Rudi Lehmann and Disciples, Haifa Museum of Modern Art 1967: The Amiricanization of Israeli Art, Bograshov Gallery, Tel Aviv 40 From Israel: Contemporary Sculpture & Drawing, Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam 1988 Into the Mainstream: Israeli Art in California Collections, Magnes Museum, Berkeley 40 From Israel: Contemporary Sculpture & Drawing, Brooklyn Museum, NY Sculpture in Israel: In Search of Identity, The Open Museum, Tefen Industrial Park Requiem to a Wadi, Pevzner House, Haifa A People Build Its Land: Israeli History as Reflected in Art, Herzliya Museum 1986 Landscape and Nature: Contemporary Israeli Prints from the Collection of The Israel Museum, High Court of Australia, Canberra The Hot and the Cool in Israel Art: the ''Cool'', Haifa Museum of Modern Art The Want of Matter: A Quality in Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1985 Milestones in Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Israeli Exhibition, Sao Paolo Biennale, San Paolo, Brazil 3 Years to the War in Lebanon, The Castle, Kibbutz Gaash Two Years: Israeli Art, Qualities Accumulated II (Three-Dimensions), Tel Aviv Museum of Art 1984 Two Years: Israeli Art, Qualities Accumulated II (Two-Dimensions), Tel Aviv Museum of Art Art from Israel 1984, Museum of Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 80 Years of Sculpture in Israel, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Trois Peinters D'Israel, International Cultureel Centrum (ICC), Antwerp, Belgium The Rational Factor in Works by Israeli Artists, Haifa Museum of Modern Art 1980 / 1983 Tel Hai, Contemporary Art Meeting, Tel Hai 1982 Homage to Menashe, Ha' Kibbutz, Israeli Art Gallery, Tel Aviv 1981 Israeli Prints from the Burston Graphic Center, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Trends in Israeli Art 1970-1980, International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland Borders, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Process and Print: An Exhibition of Working Proofs, Jerusalem Print Workshop 1979 The Israeli Grafotec, Shaar Zion Library, Beit Ariella, Tel Aviv The Kadishman Connection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Print Biennale, Tokyo, Japan 1978 Artist and Society in Israeli Art, 1948-1978, Tel Aviv Museum, 1977 Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany Debel Gallery stand, International Art Fair, Tel Aviv 1976 Glass, Bertha Urdang Gallery, NY, USA 1975 Mask, Debel Gallery, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem Homage to Aroch, Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv Graphic Art 25, Traveling Exhibition, Israel 1973 Paper and Paint, The Municipal Museum ''Bet-Emanuel'', Ramat Gan Graphic Art in Israel Today, Tel Aviv Museum 1972 Affidavit: Idea - Process – Document, Gallery House, London Sculpture & Sculptors' Drawings, Annely Juda Fine Art, London From Landscape to Abstraction, From Abstraction to Nature, Israel Museum, Jerusalem International Graphics Pavillion, Venice Biennale, Italy 1971 Israeli Art: Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Works, Tel Aviv Museum Looking Up..., Painting, Graphics & Sculpture, Memorial Art Gallery of The University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 1969 A Leap of Faith, An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures from Israel, State University of NY, Albany, NY 1968 Documenta 4, Kassel, Germany Sharet Scholarship Recipients Exhibition, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 1967 5th Paris Biennale, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1966 The Smallest Works of a 10+ Group Artists and Others, Gordon Gallery, Tel Aviv 1958 Sculpture in Israel, 1948-1958, Mishkan Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod Additional Information:Sculptor and painter with a shepherd’s eye for nature / The Guardian The many works produced by the Israeli sculptor and painter Menashe Kadishman, who has died aged 82, often surprised and provoked, blurring the boundaries between art and non-art. At the 1978 Venice Biennale, he displayed a live flock of sheep stained blue (a “moving painting”, he called it). He took care of the sheep through drawing on his experience as a shepherd on a kibbutz in his youth.Sheep became a major motif in his art, especially in painting, and the story of the shepherd who turned into an artist became part of his myth. Kadishman’s large physique, wild beard, loose garment and sandals enhanced his image of a child of nature.In his sculptures, Kadishman developed a signature style of cutout silhouettes made of steel, some reaching a height of 5 metres or more, somehow preserving the sensitive qualities of the line drawings from which they derived.In 1997, the round, open-mouthed faces, made from iron, that had been part of his previous works were accumulated and spread on a gallery floor in Tel Aviv, with the title Shalechet – Hebrew for fallen leaves. This work grew and was exhibited elsewhere, culminating in a permanent installation of 20,000 pieces in Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin. Walking on the metal heads – as there is no other way of seeing it – is an unforgettable experience.Kadishman experimented with works exploring the relationship between nature and art. A series of environmental works, The Forest (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1969; New York Central Park, 1970; Haus Lange Museum, Krefeld, Germany, 1972) combined man-made yellow plates with the natural environment. Going one step further, he painted a tree in yellow organic paint (Jerusalem, 1972).His sculpture spanned two different trends in the art of the second half of the 20th century. The first, concerned with its own form, materiality and gravity, peaked in the mid-1960s to mid-1970s, especially in Britain and the US, and Kadishman was a fluent contributor. Examples include the minimalist aluminium and glass sculpture Segments (1968) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the yellow painted Suspense (1966) at the entrance to the IsraelMuseum, Jerusalem; Uprise (1967-74) in the Habima National Theatre Square, Tel Aviv; and Suspended (1968-76) at the Storm King Art Center, New York.The other trend, from the early 1980s, related to art as a carrier of meaning: myths, memories and narratives, personal and collective. The sacrifice of Isaac was a major theme in Kadishman’s sculpture of the 1980s, which developed from the paintings of sheep he had started doing in 1979 and continued until his last days.In the early 1990s he began a poignant series of works on a theme rarely approached by a male artist: birth. In these works the child is brutally detached, head down, from the mother’s body in a moment of mutual pain.Kadishman was born in Tel Aviv to Bilha, a teacher and painter, and Ben Zion Kadishman, an industrial worker and sculptor, who emigrated from Ukraine in the early 1920s. He received his first artistic training from 1947 to 1950 with the sculptor Moshe Sternschuss, one of the founders of the modernist art group New Horizons, and then with the sculptor Rudi Lehmann, known for his sculptures and prints of animals.In 1959 Kadishman went to London to study at St Martin’s School of Art, at the time the hub of the New Generation of British sculptors led by Anthony Caro. After a year or so he moved to the Slade School of Art and studied with Reg Butler. The transition of British sculpture from the figurative and mythical tendencies of the 1950s to the abstract, industrial-influenced works of the 1960s is apparent in Kadishman’s early sculpture as he replaced bronze and stone with aluminium, glass and steel.The curator of his 1965 first solo show in London’s Grosvenor Gallery, Charles S Spencer preferred to link his work to the artist’s native land, Israel ‘with its harsh, linear landscape, vast deserts (sic!), bare mountain ranges’ and to his ‘Hebraic attitude’. In 1967 Kadishman won the first prize for sculpture at the 5th Paris Biennale for young artists and in 1968 participated in Documenta 4 in Kassel, Germany.Being a foreign artist in Britain was not easy in those days, as Kadishman related in the 2011 book on his sculptures by Marc Scheps. Being Israeli, without a British passport, prevented him from participating in official exhibitions, a painful experience that made him feel as if he did not belong in art circles. But it also had a liberating effect: “I suddenly understood that whether I followed or did not follow a certain trend, or was or was not influenced by a certain artist, my work emanated from within me – with no passports, permissions and accepted notions.”In 1965 he married Tamara Alferoff, a British psychotherapist, and they had two children, Ben and Maya. In 1972, they separated and he returned to Israel. His career prospered in the following years, both in Israel and internationally. In 1995 he was awarded his country’s highest honour, the Israel Prize.He is survived by his children and six grandchildren.Menashe Kadishman, artist, born 21 August 1932; died 8 May 2015Payment Methods: PayPal, Credit Card (Visa, Master Card), Bank Cheque. If you wish to send a personal cheque, please note that the item will not be shipped until the cheque clears. Shipping&Handling: All items are sent through registered mail or by E.M.S. 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