Siddur
Gary Goldstein
1997
It was so rare for me to work on a Hebrew book, a Jewish prayer book. My first years in school were in a religious school, my training was to reveal and fear Jewish holy books. Also the books opened the wrong way, which always made me feel uncomfortable. The pages were thin paper, which when I added inks became bruised. Wounds appeared. There is such a feeling of chaos. Lack of structure. A frightening and threatening space. An apocalyptic light. The threat of war.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 350
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 12.5x9x3
- 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.
