Menashe Kadishman - 10.06.05-05.07.05
Israeli Art, Yemin Moshe, Jerusalem
Menashe Kadishman – a well-known artist whose sculptures and paintings are exhibited in renowned museums and in respectable art collections worldwide. He too is a winner of the 1995 Israel Prize, as well as the winner of many international prizes.
In this exhibit, Kadishman presents new works, combining a variety of topics which he has addressed throughout the years. In a colorful painting, with pencil drawing or engraving, he creates a contrast between the colorful surface and the lined schemas as well as conflict and tension between contrasting motives: birth and death – a woman giving birth and a woman bearing a sacrifice, a tree planted deep in the ground and a hanging cloth dangling in the wind, an earthly donkey and a heavenly bird, birds symbolizing peace and predatory birds.
"The laundry forest" which Kadishman exhibited in the Israel Museum in 1975 serves as the background to all the drawings, and portrays colorful, rectangular pieces of cloth that are being hung. The images – some of which appear on the pieces of cloth themselves – relate to the topics Kadishman has developed over the years: a victim being carried or crucified, a tombstone and a tree, a woman praying or pleading, fathers sitting over their sons' graves, their exchange being reported. The sheep's head, which is so well-known from his works over the years, is sometimes turned into a background and the sheep's mouth transforms into a trough in the shape of a human face. It is this human face that Kadishman created from iron and 20,000 of which are distributed on the floor of the Jewish Museum in Berlin. His new works are astounding in their freshness and expression. As always, Kadishman achieves this in his own unique way – with clean colorful surfaces, and with drawings that flow into and penetrate one's soul and conscience. Menashe Kadishman's Gallery... |  |