Things Seen In Edinburgh
Gary Goldstein
1992
Living in Jerusalem I found echos with the Medieval structures and streets of Edinburgh. I loved to walk the streets of the old city of Jerusalem. I was obsess with Cabalistic elements, with their symbols and signs, known, understood and completely incomprehensible. I was anxious, afraid, terrified by fate and by the unknown. By hidden and unknown dangers. The therapeutic as well as the protective rituals and making and repeating a limited number of images. I look at the self portraits, which at the time were images of my father, and with the passage of time, have become me.
- Copies: 1
- Pages: 160
- Type of binding: Hard Cover
- Dimensions (cm): 15X10.5X2.5
- 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.
