Soziologie
Gary Goldstein
1993
I found myself drown to a series of books from the German publisher Sampling Gofchen. The small size, the anachronistic stamped covers, with their Gothic type. Each book dedicated to a different academic endeavor. I was attracted by the fact that it was German, in German, in Gothic letterset, something that talked about a specific time in history, and how it intersected with the history and lives of my own family. The pages allowed me to create an interaction between a black whole, a void, and ivory bone images, carved and blackened with a painfully achieved line. Something I’d seen a a child on a visit to a museum. Something that accompanied me since then in almost every day of my life.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 160
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 16X10.7X1.2
- 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.
