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motif in his work, lead to childhood memories,
revealing their hidden meaning.

Writing about the motif of faces, which
recurs throughout the exhibition, he notes:
“I came to understand that my work conceals
a forest of faces, a forest of portraits depicting
people I had never met, and which I had
seemingly never thought about; yet I had never
stopped thinking about them. Their figures
appear, change, and recur in painting after
painting, year after year, in the pages of the
old books on which I create my works.” Not
all of the works and symbols are decoded. The
exhibition includes two floor installations, in
which painted book covers are placed upon
drinking glasses. These and other elements
that do not explicitly accord with the
biographical character of the exhibition gave
rise to its Hebrew title – Hishta’ut (Wonder).
Wonder also arises from Goldstein’s analytic
observations as he wonders about these
recurrent images, shapes and colors, which do
not lend themselves to being deciphered.

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