All the sculptures of Donatello
Gary Goldstein
1993
I loved and was attracted by the compactness of compressing the life of an artist and his career into a small book. Dense and rich period. I was fascinated and relieved by the books separation into sections, of texts, locations, and reproductions. The books dealt with an artist long dead. From another time and another country. But dealt so much with my compressed, claustrophobic self absorption. A seeming incarceration within my own existing. A reoccurring vessel, headless self-portrait. Pins and single eyes, and wounds.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 365
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 17.8X12.3X2.3
- Publication: Independent
- Place of publication: Jerusalem
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
Gary Goldstein was born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA (1950) and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He is an artist and a lecturer of Visual Arts. He completed his M.F.A. in Visual Arts at “Pratt Institute”, Brooklyn, NY, USA (1977). Goldstein Immigrated to Israel in 1977 and was a member of Kibbutz Afikim for four years. He established a Fine Arts program in the Jordan Valley regional High school “Beit Yerach”. From 2012 to the present, he resides and creates art in Tel Aviv. Gary Goldstein concentrated during the decade of the 1980s on creating around 150 unique Artists’ Books. 14 out of them were published in limited additions of 14 to 1,000 copies. From the 1990s Goldstein draws mostly on pages of secondhand books. He created hundreds of three-dimensional objects. In 2007 he was awarded the prize of Fine Art of the Culture Minister, and in 2015 he received the Arik Einstein prize of Fine Art of the Culture Minister for Life-Time Achievement.
