Die Kreutzer Sonate
Gary Goldstein
1992
This is another erased book, using a thick black marker. Repetition, creates a feeling of calm for me. Yet, I’m amazed each time, that the repetition of means, methods, materials, rips such different results. What appeared in other books as reflections on water as kind as streams, and light on water, here gives a feeling of bars, of water falling, of brittle glass, both dangerous and threatening. The images in the margins are sharp, dangerous and reflect violence and pain. Have a nice time.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 144
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 18.5X12.5X1
- 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.
