'Shalechet' - Arturo Schwartz
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...Read more...
'Autumn Leaves' - Dan Miron
In The Divine Comedy, Dante, just after passing beneath the arched door of Hell (the one with the inscription "Abandon all hope, all you who enter here" engraved on the lintel), immediately finds himself standing, astounded, before the presence of death, different from anything he had imagined.Read more...
'Autumn Leaves' - Dov Gottesman
In his human Autumn Leaves sculptures — the hundreds and thousands of flat, crying and laughing faces with their blunt expressions — Kadishman sharpens and gives new form to the sense of life's sorrow...Read more...
'Falling Leaves as Dialogue' - Marc Schepps
We are standing here on the ruins of our common past and our future destiny.We, who are present here, are the living proof of our own affiliation with the endless chain of life and death. We here, carry in our memories the remembrance of all the joys and pains of human existence.
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'Abraham's Weakness' - Pierre Restany
Abraham was ready to kill his son Isaac because it was God's order, and he feared God. But Isaac wassaved by the ram. In his famous group of sculptures...
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'Shalechet (fallen leaves)' - Ulrich Schneider
...it simply defies verbal or visual publication. Something in the order of ten thousand individual sculptures — but the number is always growing — present themselves in front of and obligatorily under the feet of the observer.Read more...