Changes Are Expected in My Distant Past
2019
"Changes Are Expected in My Distant Past —Like Yair Garbuz Goes to the Cinema, this book is also about imitation. It also has an element from the notepads, because it is written by hand. I really like poetry, and I also think that poetry and painting get along better than prose and painting. Poetry requires cleanliness and precision, and a poem is like a painting, a composition on a page. Prose is a composition of content but not of form. In this sense, I created an ongoing dialogue between art and poetry. Early on when I wrote about art, I saw that a good quote works fantastically if paired with the right painter. So I started writing 'poem images,' and using a lot of expressions from language within the paintings. There is a mutuality for me between the two mediums. Artist’s books are to a large extent a Noah’s Ark that preserves this connection between text and a painting or a sketch. I also call it 'language shards,' quotes, lines, words that need to be preserved, a kind of salvage enterprise. Many times I get magnetized to a sentence or I confuse a pair of words in my head. There is of course a lot of appropriation in this, and an attempt to pass on culture."
-- Yair Garbuz
- Type of binding: hardcover, fabric-bpund
- Dimensions (cm): 31X22.5
- 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.
