“Shalechet” by Menashe Kadishman, an installation once exhibited at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, is currently on view at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Set against the work’s heavy, somber field of iron faces, its title—Shalechet (“Fallen Leaves”)—quietly gestures toward the possibility of renewal and new life after death.
Kadishman was an Israeli sculptor and painter who was born in Tel Aviv in 1932 and died at the age of 82.
On Yom HaShoah, “we remember the victims, confront antisemitism and hatred, and reaffirm our commitment to standing in solidarity with Jewish communities around the world,” shared the city of Tel Aviv on Facebook.
Erin Levi
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