The shepherd

A piece by famous Israeli artist, Menashe Kadishman. The sculpture shows streamlined black shades of the shepherd with sheep. They look like they are bending over in the space. The artist is well-known for earthworks, sculptures, performances, installations, and paintings redolent with religious themes. The artist's trademark are hundreds of portraits of sheep, each one different from another. At the 1978 Venice Biennale, Kadishman showed sheep for the first time: he presented a flock of colored sheep as living art. He believed, that “art grows from feelings and not rational calculations alone”.