The best summer!

“Imagine if I could count how many dreams I had last night”

There is a lot in our world that we can measure. With the help of numbers, we measure how tall we are and how much we weigh. We measure the distance between cities, countries and continents. How far is it between the earth and the moon? Yes, we can even measure distances in space! And we also measure something as invisible as time. But is there anything we can not measure? Imagine if we could count how many dreams we have in one night, how loud it sounds when a leaf grows or how fast I will be able to run in the future.

Maybe we need to imagine a different and bigger world to come up with new things to measure! With inspiration from Zvi Goldstein’s artwork, we build our own measuring instruments where it is we who decide how and what it is that is to be measured.

About Zvi Goldstein

Zvi Goldstein uses art and poetry to help him make his way around the world. Throughout his life he has traveled a lot and far. During one of his travels, through the vast Sahara desert of northern Africa, he enlisted the help of the warm desert winds. The winds became guides that led him through the desert.

The artist Zvi Goldstein was born in Romania. As a young man, he was educated in Milan, Italy, and in Jerusalem, Israel, where he grew up and now lives. His long travels have taken him to several parts of the world – Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. The journeys become a kind of exploration of the world, an exploration that he uses in his art. During his travels and through art, he wonders where the center is, and also, where are the outskirts? Is it here, or there? And what happens if I go there?

His artwork, which consists of objects, texts and images, asks us many questions – questions about distance, time and how we understand the world. Much of the materials that Zvi Goldstein uses in his works of art are familiar, but he has put them together in an unexpected way. Here we find rulers, drawings, dried animals, maps, magnets, blinds, light bulbs and something that looks like umbrellas. With these materials and with the help of art, he creates a larger world.