Blocks
2016
"In 2008 I traveled with a small notebook and came back with a pad of paper that I liked. It started as a joke: I thought I too deserved to sit in a cafe and write “letter drawings.” Unlike my paintings, which are very large, a pad is small and intimate, and if I started a pad I have to finish it. I really like to give gifts, and there are things that cannot be given because they are too expensive or too big. A notepad is something you can give, or tear off a page from. The printed pads are very similar to the originals, and it’s a gift that’s pleasant to hold in your hand. Each notepad stands on its own, and there are around 100 copies of it."
-- Yair Garbuz
- Copies: 100
- Type of binding: hardcover
- Dimensions (cm): 17X24
- Publication: Gordon Gallery
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv-Jaffa
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
Yair Garbuz (b. 1945) is an Israeli painter, writer, journalist, television host, satirist, and public intellectual. He is regarded as a pioneering and influential figure in Israeli art, whose work reflects the impact of American Pop Art while incorporating a distinctly local, critical perspective. Garbuz was born in Givatayim and later lived as a member of Kibbutz Kfar HaHoresh. He studied painting under Rafi Lavie at the Avni Institute of Art and Design, and for many years served as head of the Midrasha School of Art at Beit Berl College. In recent years, he has lived and worked alternately in Safed and Ramat Gan. His first solo exhibition took place in 1967, and since then, he has presented dozens of exhibitions in museums and galleries in Israel and abroad. Garbuz’s works are held in numerous public and private collections, and he has exhibited, among other venues, at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and the Knesset of Israel. In 2015, he was awarded the Rappaport Prize for Art.
