Basic English
Gary Goldstein
1992
The early 90s were a time of intense work in books. But also a time of opening in my life. When I began studying languages. Opening myself to the world. It was a time of barely frequent travels to the US and Europe. An opening of many contacts. It was a time of a certain ambition and energy. Of looking outward. But strangely the book continued with my interesting erasure, with erasing so much. A clash between those realities and ambitions. A co-existence of the two. The difficulty opened up the necessity for decoration and beauty. Beauty as a balm. A kind of medicine for emptiness.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 90
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 15.5x10.3x1.3
- 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.
