Menashe Kadishman

'Sacrifice Sculptures'

Amnon Barzel

Kadishman has persistently exposed the injustice of any decision to rise up and murder the other: already in the sixties he created an expression for these pains in sharp, broken glass panels which wound the eye that looks on them...
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'Kadishman, Myth and Modernity'

Edward E Fry

Menashe Kadishman is an artist of great power who possesses the rare gift of a unified response, both aesthetic and moral, to the historical world. The realities of this historical experience of Israel have surrounded Kadishman, as man and as artist, since his birth.
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'Sacrifices'

1982-1999 - Ulrich Schneider

The life-inspired theme of sheep and flock is not the only one to be found in Menashe Kadishman's opus, which also researches the theme of Sacrifices, even in his abstraction and concept phases, binding the two topics together.
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"The Sacrifice of Isaac"

Christine Tacke

The state of Israel has never yet found peace sinceits foundation. Young soldiers still die in the struggle for the continued existence of their country. When the son of Maneshe Kadishman was conscripted for military service, his father experienced the anxiety of all fathers for the life of their sons.
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Menashe Kadishrnan. The narrator.

Ulrich Schneider

In Menashe Kadishman is extensive oeuvre metaphorical signs are prominent: the sheep as a creature needing protection, the donkey as an admirable monument of dogged survival, the dog as an instance of greed as bred by man. For decades Kadishman has modified, declined and paraphrased these symbols with enormous creativity in all genres of art.
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