Cherio's Guide to the Hand
Gary Goldstein
1992
I’ve always been fascinated, intrigued and repulsed, by my own hands. The amazing embossed cover of the book fascinated me, along with the information appearing on one of the inside pages, trumpeting the fact that this was the 15th printing. The atmosphere of the book, despite being dark, and dealing with darkness, has a much lighter feeling. Playful and decorative. Somewhat hiding the feeling of helplessness, vulnerability, and imprisonment.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 130
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 18.8X13X1.5
- 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.
