Real Flowers, Real Gifts
Shai Zurim
2005
A book of drawings, made to accompany Zurim's 2005 solo show at Sommer Contemporary Art Gallery in Tel-Aviv.
"Awareness is a key aspect of my work. I am constantly obliged to wake myself up to feel the social, cultural and political reality that surrounds me, to be a seismograph.
In order to be aware, I have to be on the move, and being on the move is one of the main reasons why I keep returning to the medium of drawing on paper.
Equipped with my sketchbook and pencils, liberated from the confinement of the artist’s studio. I hit the road, prepared to react in real time, where each new place turns into my home, my studio."
—Excerpt from the book
- Pages: 70
- Dimensions (cm): 22X22
- Printing: Kal Printers
- Publication: Am Oved Publishers Ltd
- Place of publication: Tel Aviv-Jaffa
- Supported by: Sommer Contemporary Art, Shmuel Givon Prize, D.K. GraubART Publishers, Joshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts
- Book photography: Yair Meyuhas
Shai Zurim, born in Israel in 1972, is an artist based in the United States. His work explores ars poetica themes and incorporates imagery from popular culture. Using various illustration techniques, he creates sculptures that merge diverse images and materials. Zurim lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his family.
