Maigret's Memoirs
Gary Goldstein
1990
Whenever I needed a vacation or relief from my life, I would retreat to the extensive series of books by Simenon about the renowned French detective Maigret. What attracted me to the series of books, was the fact that they were less detective novels, but more a description of Paris, with its daily lives. I was fascinated by the fact that the book were repetitive. They followed a very similar pattern. Length. They were written usually in a week and a half, that working method fascinated me as well. As the description of a man, a detective, who claimed he had no method, he would immerse himself, in other people’s lives, observing, feeling, and finding a flawed truth. The book was influenced by illuminated manuscripts, selectively choosing existing texts, and highlighting them, out of context. I was fascinated by the accidents and lack of control of the water color, which seeped from one page to the next, creating blessed accidents.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 136
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 21.5X14.5X18
- 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.
