Menashe Kadishman

Menashe Kadishman

Edward Fry

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 them into a phenomenological drama of levitation, of unexpected combinations of metal and glass...
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Kadishman's Heimat- Localism

Dan Miron
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 Europe and dreamt of the creation of a just, non-alienated, new Jewish society on the other hand. The two were to him intertwined and all but unified.
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'Menashe Kadishman'

Arturo Schwartz

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 Biennial of course, but was not familiar with his further developments.
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'Art and Nature'

Mordechai Omer

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 the Haus Lange Museum in Krefeld.
An important international indication of the artist's need to bring Nature back into the
museum halls...
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Foreword

Ulrich Schneider

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.
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