Menashe Kadishman

Menashe Kadishman

Menashe Kadishman, 1954
Born (1932-08-21)August 21, 1932
Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine
Died May 8, 2015(2015-05-08) (aged 82)
Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel
Nationality Israeli
Education Avni Institute of Art and Design
Known for Sculptor and painter.
Website kadishman.com
Menashe Kadishman's Yellow Circles, (1967) in High Park in Toronto, Ontario
Menashe Kadishman's The binding of Yitzhak
Portrait of Menashe Kadishman, 1979
Photographer: Stanley I. Batkin

Menashe Kadishman (Hebrew: מנשה קדישמן; 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.[1] During 1959 and 1960 he also studied with Anthony Caro and Reg Butler.[1] 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.[2]

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.[3] 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".

Education

Awards

Sculptures and Public Works

United States

New York
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Texas

Canada

Costa Rica

Germany

Piëta, Braunschweig

Israel

Japan

The Netherlands

United Kingdom

Other works

See also

References

Media related to Menashe Kadishman at Wikimedia Commons

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