Die Graphischen Kunste
Gary Goldstein
1992
The original book was part of a series of books which were exquisite, beautiful. The binding was cloth with embossed black letters. The internal layout was also very compact and beautiful. I worked on erasing texts with black accenting formalistic beauty the constructive nature of the text. On the right side I erased the blacks of texts with Tipp-Ex. Turning is into a kind of ivory that I began to grow on, with Pictographic figures of eyes, heads, the land of greater Israel. Hence, things took on metaphorical aspects. It was something compartmentalized, fragmented, within frames. Within confined spaces.
Done in the years when I lived in Jerusalem, they were influenced by my interest in Kabbalistic amulets.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 116
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 16x10.7x1.2
- 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.
