Meet the Artist- Maayan Elyakim

Magasin III Jaffa Books series of meetings with artists will host the artist Maayan Alyakim with his artist book And a River Went Out of Eden and his Moon Calendar Prints series.

And a River Went Out of Eden, Elyakim’s artist book, a collaboration with graphic designer Michael Gordon, was published as part of his solo exhibition with the same name, which took place in 2018 at the the Schocken Library, Jerusalem. The book is a gesture to a series of books called “Schoken’s Library” that was published by the German Schocken publishing house between 1933-1938, edited by Dr. Morris (Moshe) Spitzer. The series published Jewish masterpieces from various periods, translated to German for the first time. All the books were designed in the same format, each of them in a different color. And a River Went Out of Eden was designed and produced by Michael Gordon, and printed in the format and stylistic spirit of the Schocken Library series. It includes the texts the Library by Maayan Elyakim, Strange Stones and Good Neighborhood by Jesse Lockard and Rotem Linial, documentation of the library and the exhibition, and a book version of the work Six First Plates.

Moon Calendar Prints are an edition of 48 prints presenting the moon phases for each day throughout 2022. The calendars are unique, made by screen printing on original works by Maayan Elyakim, created using marbling techniques on paper. The prints will be sold for a special price for the event.