Menashe Kadishman

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Menashe Kadishman
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Menashe Kadishman, 1954
Born (1932-08-21)August 21, 1932
Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine
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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
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Menashe Kadishman's The binding of Yitzhak
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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

  • 1960 the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship.[1]
  • 1961, the Sainsbury Scholarship, London.[1]
  • 1967 first prize for sculpture, 5th Paris Biennale.[1]
  • 1978 Sandberg Prize recipient
  • 1980 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship [4]
  • 1981 Eugene Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Arts, Tel Aviv Museum Prize of the Jury
  • 1981 Norwegian International Print Biennale, Fredrikstad.[1]
  • 1984 Mendel Pundik Prize for Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum [4]
  • 1990 the Dizengoff Prize for Sculpture.[5]
  • 1995 the Israel Prize, for sculpture.[4]
  • 2002 the Honorary Fellowship Award from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.[1]

Sculptures and Public Works

United States

New 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, NY
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

Canada

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

Costa Rica

  • MADC 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, Duisburg

Israel

  • 1957 "The Dog", Artist Private Collection | 2015 China, Sculptor Maty Grunberg, recreating Kadishman "The Dog 1957" in granite stone, under M. Kadishman's instruction
  • 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 Gan

Japan

The Netherlands

  • 'Dream', 1993, Buddingh'plein, Dordrecht

United Kingdom

  • Tate Britain, London (England)
  • Hollyfield, Harlow (England)

Other works

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

See also

References

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