Large Calman Shemi Three Trees Soft Painting Fiber Textile Signed

Calman Shemi was born in Argentina in 1939. A graduate of the School of Sculpture and Ceramics in Mendoza, he was a student of the Italian-Argentinean sculptor, Libero Badii, and
the German-Israeli sculptor, Rudi Lehman. In 1961 Shemi settled in Israel and joined Kibbutz
Carmia of which he was a member for twenty years, working in agriculture and as a sculptor. Several large-scale projects made of fiberglass and polyester are situated in various public buildings.
Though sculpture dominated his early career, Shemi developed the idea of the "soft painting" medium in 1977.
Beginning with a color drawing done to scale, Shemi layers irregularly shaped pieces of variously textured and colored fabrics. Using a thread less 9000-needle sewing machine, the fabrics are meshed to one

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