Menashe Kadishman
| Menashe Kadishman | |
|---|---|
 Menashe Kadishman, 1954 | |
| Born |
August 21, 1932 Tel Aviv, British Mandate of Palestine |
| Died |
May 8, 2015 (aged 82) Tel Hashomer, Ramat Gan, Israel |
| Nationality | Israeli |
| Education | Avni Institute of Art and Design |
| Known for | Sculptor and painter. |
| Website |
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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 sculptures and colorful sheep paintings.
Biography
Kadishman was born in the British Mandate Palestine in 1932. His father, who was a pioneer, died when Kadishman was 15 years old. The young Menashe left school to help his mother with housework and to earn money.[1]
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.[2] During 1959 and 1960 he also studied with Anthony Caro and Reg Butler.[2] 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.[3]
Motifs
Photographer: Stanley I. Batkin
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.[4] 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
- 1947-50 Sculpture, with Moshe Sternschuss, Avni Institute of Art and Design
- 1954 Sculpture, with Rudi Lehman
- 1959-60 Art, Saint Martin's School of Art, London
- 1961 Art, Slade School, London
Awards
- 1960 the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship.[2]
- 1961, the Sainsbury Scholarship, London.[2]
- 1967 first prize for sculpture, 5th Paris Biennale.[2]
- 1978 Sandberg Prize recipient
- 1980 America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship [5]
- 1981 Eugene Kolb Prize for Israeli Graphic Arts, Tel Aviv Museum Prize of the Jury
- 1981 Norwegian International Print Biennale, Fredrikstad.[2]
- 1984 Mendel Pundik Prize for Israeli Art, Tel Aviv Museum [6]
- 1990 the Dizengoff Prize for Sculpture.[7]
- 1995 the Israel Prize, for sculpture.[6]
- 2002 the Honorary Fellowship Award from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.[2]
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
- '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
- 'Prometheus', 1986–87, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
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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- ↑ "The Times of Israel, 13 Oct, 2016"
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Menashe Kadishman". AskArt. Retrieved August 3, 2011.
- ↑ Staff (2015-05-08). "Menashe Kadishman, famed Israeli artist, dies at 82". jpost.com. Retrieved 2015-05-09.
- ↑ The Old Master Of Tel Aviv
- ↑ Menashe Kadishman from the Israeli artist list of the Information Center for Israeli Art at the Israel Museum
- 1 2 "Israel Prize Official Site – Recipients in 1995 (in Hebrew)".
- ↑ "List of Dizengoff Prize laureates" (PDF) (in Hebrew). Tel Aviv Municipality.