The visual artist and writer  Zvi Goldstein will take part in a panel devoted to memory and the employment of images in art and literature in the event The SIP Re/View #2: W.G. Sebald (March 5, 2012). His talk will be entitled “The Rucksack.”

This interdisciplinary event, produced in collaboration with Mediatheque Holon, is dedicated to the works of noted German writer and scholar, whose work continues to resonate in contemporary art and culture.

To February 26, 2012, Zvi Goldstein’s exhibition, Haunted by Objects, is on view at the K21 in Düsseldorf.

This is the largest project to date of the visual artist and writer, who continuously defies Western context and comments in his work about the globalized world. Haunted by Objects is a dense environment, comprised of 850 objects, ranging from antiquity to the present.

Haunted by Objects, Installation View. Photographs by Achim Kukulies

All Images are Courtesy of the Artist

This work begins and woven from 62 poems written by the artist and published in the book Room 205, which took the Israel Museum holdings, where it was fist exhibited in 2012, as its readymades. The objects are deprived from any sense of hierarchy, while giving vision to the poet’s mind.

Zvi Goldstein was born in Cluj, Transylvania, in 1947 and emigrated to Israel in 1958. Following his studies, he worked as an artist for nine years in Italy until 1978, when his new artistic strategy took him back to Jerusalem. Since then he has become internationally known through numerous exhibitions in museums and galleries in Europe, in North and South America.

Zvi Goldstein lives in Jerusalem and is a Professor of Fine Art at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. He wrote two books: On Paper (2004) and Room 205 (2010), both published in Walther König publication house.