Alois Janak (1989)
Gary Goldstein
1989
The usual warning, “Do Not Judge a Book By its Cover”, was completely disregarded in my life. The fact that this small, thick, book was everywhere at that time, fascinated me. There was something beautiful about the repetition of image, blank page, image, blank page. I really didn’t like the images on the page even though I was attracted to them. But the fact of my lack of love allowed me to work on them. To change them, to impose myself on him. I was able to insert myself into his life, his work, his pain, his success. There is something about a book about an artist, that grants the artist fame, recognition, and a certain immortality. An antidote to being forgotten. The thickness of the book, the large number of reproductions, was something to which I aspired. It was something that reflected my total fear of forgetting and being forgotten.
- 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.
