The Artis Shuk at NADA Art Fair, NYC: May 4-7, 2012
May 4–7, 2012
548 West 22nd Street at 11th Avenue
New York City
FREE and open to the publicHoused in a tent on the roof with exhibition design by Comm-on Israeli (artist Lior Shvil), The Artis Shuk will feature unique and limited edition artwork by some of Israel’s leading artists. Conceived as a playful counterpart to the art fair, The Artis Shuk is modeled after the markets (shuks/souks) found throughout Israel and the Middle East. Join us for mint tea and sweets and browse our selection of unique artist objects, jewelry, limited edition photographs, and publications. Most artworks are priced at $500 and below, with all proceeds benefiting the Artis Grant Program, which awards over $125,000 annually to artists and nonprofit institutions.Artists featured: Inbal Abergil, Guy Ben-Ari & Leah Wolff, Keren Benbenisty, Deville Cohen, Zipora Fried, Orly Genger x Jaclyn Mayer, Guy Goldstein, Dor Guez, Naomi Safran Hon, Itamar Jobani, Gabi Kricheli, Alon Levin, Alona Rodeh, Roee Rosen, Avi Sabah, Irit Tamari, Gal Weinstein, Guy Yanai, Gil Yefman, Rona Yefman, and Picnic Magazine.
A beloved part of the Jewish Sabbath celebration, challah bread is traditionally blessed and consumed on Friday evening and Saturday. Guy Goldstein’s challah loaves in Black & White Breadcome pre-sliced, a nod to the prohibition against slicing on the Sabbath, and are created out of Terazzo tiles, a staple of Israeli construction projects from the state’s inception to the 1990s, when simple and cheap materials were needed to house massive waves of immigrants. Just as the Terazzo tile acted as a standard unit of measurement, Goldstein suggests that the Terazzo challah can be a measurement of its own, one that explores the relationship between hard labor and salary, the history of the Jewish people and home.
About the Artist
Guy Goldstein (b. 1974, Tel Aviv) is a multidisciplinary artist who works in various traditional and experimental techniques, including embroidery, photography, video, sculpture and sound. His conceptual works rely on found material ranging from still objects to live subjects and virtual media elements. They are occupied with time – its legacies and residues – through notions of archeology and contemporaneity, history and art history. Goldstein received an M.F.A. from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 2007. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at The Heder Contemporary Art Gallery, Tel Aviv (2002 – 2006); Chelouche Gallery, Tel Aviv (2009); and in group exhibitions in London, Hamburg, Malaga, Helsinki and throughout Israel. He won the America – Israel Cultural Foundation Prize four times and was awarded the Israeli Ministry of Culture’s Young Artist Award (2007).
