Klee
Gary Goldstein
2000
I’ve always loved Paul Klee. The small scale, and the amazing number of works which he created. At the same time, I see in this book the appearance of the prisons of Piranesi which entered my life as an art student in the class of George McNeill on Monday nights in 1978. Seemingly reflecting a preexisting need, and the change of my mental structure. I don’t really know what Piranesi intended, but a small portion of those monumental etchings of prisons with the bars, both fascinated me and changed my life. Other the last years, and periodically 30 years before then, I find myself returning to the images and feelings of imprisonment. A self uncontrolled imprisonment.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 150
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 17.8X15.8X2
- 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.
