Alois Janak (1997)
Gary Goldstein
1997
I was always happy when I found the book that attracted me, to find it again. And to find it again and to reawaken that attraction. There were new possibilities and associations, that the book awakened. The fascination with anatomy. The fear of anatomy. The feeling of venerability, that it awakened. The fact that what was internal, hidden, protected, suddenly became visible. That visibility became a threat. The blackness of the pages that I made. Their impenetrability. Their total darkness. That became something beautiful to me. Something so necessary. Page after page.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 341
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 17x12x2.5
- 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.
