Towards the late l980s, Kadishman returned to sculpture and painting, where a naturalistic imagery gained new significance and took on a very important dimension in his work.The Birth series appeared toward the end of the I980s. It represents the “Great Mother” who gives life and, at the same time, symbolizes […]

The state of Israel has never yet found peace since its foundation. Young soldiers still die in the struggle for the continued existence of their country.When the son of Maneshe Kadishman was conscripted for military service, his father experienced the anxiety of all fathers for the life of their sons. […]

Menashe Kadishman’s latest sculpture-environment, “Shalechet” (Fallen Leaves) is constituted by a very large number of heavy, circular-shaped, iron disks forged into the semblance of a frantic screaming face, the expression of which immediately calls to mind the ghostly visage seen in Eduard Munch’ painting The Scream, 1893.The disks are scattered […]

Something predictable has happened to painting. During the last fifteen years it has been regarded as the unnecessary, heavy-handed, impure art form-the flesh that covers the skeleton. The interest lay in the skeleton, not in the flesh. It was Conceptual Art that left painting out, its motto being `art as […]

The Sacrifice sculptures were born with Kadishman’s live sheep project at the 1978 Venice Biennale. Now, in1999, countless heads of youths are laid out before us. Hundreds of thousands who fell in battle, millions who were massacred. Women and children in the midst of wars of nations that rise up […]

In the collective mind of the art world of New York, and thus of the United States, Menashe Kadishman securely occupies a distinguished position defined by his sculpture of the late 60’s and early l970’s, in which he absorbed the precepts of Anthony Caro and his circle and then transformed […]

Menashe Kadishman is one of the few Israeli artists who succeeded in reaching out to an international audience. His artistic vision, however; is firmly rooted in his Israeli origins: the landscape of Israel, on the one hand, and the saga of his patents, the Zionist pioneers who fled persecution in […]

Menashe Kadishman was born in Tel Aviv in 1932, and began his artistic career in the early sixties as a minimalist sculptor in London. He continued on to become a pioneer of conceptual art in the late sixties. His work from this period was well-represented at the 1971-72 show at […]

Menashe Kadishman is one of Israe’s most celebrated artists, whose works enjoy an excellent international reputation. Exhibitions in his homeland, in the United States, in many European countries and recently also in Japan, China and Thailand have been showing his opus time and again and convincingly ever since the sixties. […]

On a bright May morning of 1993 Ofer Lellouche told me, “you must meet Menashe Kadishman, you will like him, he is a Flabelaisian personage, and one of our most important sculptors.” At the time my knowledge of lsraeli art was very poor, I remembered his performance at the Venice […]