The exhibit will showcase unique works of art by San Francisco-based artist Daniel Goldstein, who was the featured artist at the 2010 International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria where his sculptures made up of everyday HIV-related objects were highlighted. His woodblock prints, collages and sculptures have been exhibited in leading galleries and museums throughout the world.
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Ethereal, translucent and moving, Goldstein's ghosts are sculptures. They are, for the most part, huge mobiles suspended from the ceiling and made from all sorts of things: glass, mesh, medicine bottles.
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The artwork by Goldstein similarly shows the struggles played out by the human body for the sake of becoming more godlike, at least by contemporary society’s standards. The work is composed of a leather covering for a workout bench, the brand name Icarian. The covering was salvaged from a gym in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood at a pivotal time during the AIDS epidemic.
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Entering a room devoted to artist Daniel Goldstein's Icarian series, you're surrounded by ghostlike images of human forms encased behind Plexiglas in wooden boxes reminiscent of reliquaries. Well-worn, yet mysteriously luminous, the human traces call to mind the Shroud of Turin — a comparison Goldstein has heard more times than he can count.
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AIDS also informs Daniel Goldstein’s sculpture, Medicine Man, which seems to straddle the line between despair about lives lost and hope for longevity, is a totemlike figure made of hundreds of empty medication bottles and dozens of syringes donated by HIV patients, forming a new whole out of the lives of many.
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The gym equipment was covered in leather. Years of human weight, sweat and repetitive friction had abraded and marked them. I was able to obtain many of these skins (as I took to calling them) after the machines had been replaced by newer, vinyl-covered models. The mysterious and often abstracted human forms that had been imprinted on the leather reminded me of medieval relics.
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Made for the 2010 Vienna AIDS Conference, "Invisible Man" is a life-size suspended sculpture made of syringes, red crystals and steel wires. Artist Daniel Goldstein talks about the genesis and meaning of the work in this short film commissioned by the UN Geneva, directed and edited by Cedric Pilard.
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Daniel talks to Ernesto Leon about his Medicine Man sculpture.
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United in compassionate outrage, group exhibitions in Africa and the U.S. reflect the ongoing struggle against AIDS across decades and continents.
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Artist Daniel Goldstein and his team are interviewed about the making of "Medicine Man for South Africa", a new suspended sculpture made of HIV/AIDS bottles, syringes and glass-beaded spindles representing various side-effects of the medications. Below the figure is a paper disk in which side-effects are written in colors corresponding to the spindles. These were created by brilliant S. African craftspeople who are part of the Umcebo Trust program. Visitors are encouraged to write about their own side-effects and experiences with HIV meds on this disk. This sculpture is included in the NOT ALONE exhibit which is a part of of MAKE ART STOP AIDS, an internation traveling program/exhibition of artworks relating to global HIV/AIDS issues.
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Make Art/ Stop AIDS is an international traveling exhibition of artworks addressing HIV/AIDS and world cultures. In this video curators, artists and visitors offer their thoughts on the pandemic and the special role of art as an way to address the various issues surrounding HIV/AIDS.
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Daniel Goldstein's Icarian series, though culturally and artistically a work of great modernity, has as its frame of reference a traditional artistic and religious concept, that of the reliquary...Other works here which arouse intense mystical engagement are those of the Abstract Expressionist, the Rothko, the Newman- and to some extent the Goldstein.
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Daniel Goldstein's 'Reliquaries' series makes a welcome contribution to the body of work addressing AIDS.
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The leather bench covers from a gymnasium, on which nameless and numberless human bodies have strained to perform certain exercises...have been perceived as, in themselves, gradually actualized imageries of humanity...
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The unique feature of his work is the fact that Goldstein has managed to maintain the mysterious, lyrical quality peculiar to his imagery, while posing more and more difficult pictoral problems to the viewer.
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