Menashe Kadishman

Menashe Kadishman was born in & nbsp; Tel Aviv & nbsp; & nbsp; 21 & nbsp; August 1932. In the 1950s, he served in a & nbsp; Kibbutz & nbsp; he worked in particular as shepherd & nbsp; which has a strong influence on his works his theme of predilection being the sheep. From 1947, he studied at & nbsp; Tel Aviv & nbsp; & nbsp; Sculpture, successively with Moshe Sternschuss, then with Rudi Lehmann in 1954. He left for & nbsp; London & nbsp; in 1959 where he continued his studies, with artists close to the minimalism & nbsp; such that & nbsp; Anthony Caro. He exhibits for the first time at the Grosvenor gallery. The first work, often portrayed as & nbsp; minimalist, use stone, iron and the concept of & nbsp; gravity, standing out for work around balance. Kadishman also turned to iron sculptures, certain monumental, in which silhouettes are cut. In 1968 in the & nbsp; Documenta & nbsp; of & nbsp; Cassel & nbsp; in sculpture. From 1978, Menashe Kadishman exhibited a herd of living sheep coated in color. His work subsequently has painted or carved sheep heads, which became a recurring motif in his work5. At the end of the 1990s, he created an installation of screaming faces cut in the metal, which litter the ground with a passage On the ground floor of the & nbsp; Jewish museum of Berlin & nbsp; and on which the visitor can walk, the work is dedicated not only to the Jews murdered during the Shoah, but also to all the victims of violence and the war. 1995, the & nbsp; Prix Israel, one of the most important in the country, was awarded to it for its sculptures.