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Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv
June 25 - August 08, 2009
Goldstein's drawings use grid sheets as their surface. Originally, these sheets were used as "educational devices" – children are encouraged to color their extensive geometric patterns in order to find different shapes, figures, and textures within them, in a free and independent way. The name that was given to these booklets, Altair, is derived from the Arabic term for "the flying eagle", denoting the brightest star in the constellation Aquila. Different figures and scenes come into being in these drawings; most of them feature animals and generate different kinds of relations between them and human figures. These are not wild animals, nor are they domestic pets; the human figures radiate their self-satisfaction. They move between arrogance and indifference. Some of the images put on a didactic, almost medical face, resembling instructions for hunting or taxidermy – animal "handling" or anatomical sketches. The drawing technique transforms the patterned papers into a surface or a background, a basis for creating an image that usually disregards the lines of the patterned grid, sometimes using them as texture markers or possible contours. Thus Goldstein's drawings come into being in the hectic zone between the silent, inanimate grid and the live, organic pattern.
Chelouche Gallery
