Menashe Kadishman

In overall good condition; extensive surface rust throughout.
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Kadishman worked as a shepherd from 1950 to 1953 at Kibbutz Ma'ayan Baruch and Kvutzat Yizrael, which would influence his artwork and cause sheep to become his most well known subject matter. In 1978, when Kadishman was selected to represent Israel at the Venice Biennale, he exhibited a flock of blue-painted sheep. "By choosing sheep as the theme and material of his art Kadishman attempted to turn to the primary and the simplest, to make a junction between an aesthetic emotional form and personal experiences which are related to the time and place, as reference points in one's own geography and biography. . . With the presentation of the sheep, Kadishman goes back to the time when he was a shepherd in an agricultural Kibbutz in the Valley of Jezreel, Israel. He left the flock to become a sculptor; yet he left it in anticipation of meeting it again." (Amnon Barzel, "From art to nature-as-art", Menashe Kadishman Israel at the Venice Biennale 78, exhibition catalogue, 1978).