'Abraham's Weakness'
Pierre Restany
Menashe and Restany in Studio
Abraham was ready to kill his son Isaac because it was God's order, and he feared God. But Isaac was saved by the ram. In his famous group of sculptures in front of the Tel Aviv Museum, Kadishman has figured the ram, the crying ladies and the living Isaac. Abraham is absent because he represents the human weakness which creates the endless succession of victims of evil fate. How many people have been the victims of destiny? Now Kadishman has cut thousands and thousands of hollow iron faces.
They are the dead leaves of mankind. Man is a tree, and he loses his leaves when the time of his last winter is come. Please walk on those dead leaves which are the signs of the common human condition and not the memory of another holocaust. Be free to be a simple part of human nature, and no more the victim of a negative predestination.