The Nut Case and the Victim (2015) is a two-person exhibition by Dan Allon and Gary Goldstein at Art Space TLV, Tel Aviv. The project explores collecting as both a creative and psychological impulse, drawing on Sigmund Freud’s distinctions between different types of collectors. Through personal archives of papers, drawings, memorabilia, and notes, the artists reconstruct fragments of their biographies, inviting visitors to glimpse collections that suggest much larger unseen worlds.

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Dan Allon’s works revolve around memories of his 1995 Bar Mitzvah, examining masculinity, vulnerability, and body anxiety through installations, sound, and archival materials. Gary Goldstein presents bundles of drawings created over five years, whose vibrant imagery gradually reveals darker undertones of fragmentation and memory.

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Curator: Dr. Guy Morag
Art Space TLV, Tel Aviv
July 9 – July 30, 2015

Read a review By Uzi Zur, Haaretz Newspaper, July 2015 (HEBREW) - press here. 

Read a text written about the installation by Avi Lubin (HEBREW)-press here.

Credits: 
Image editing: Itay Lustgarten
Photos: Goni Riskin 
The Sound work was created with the kind assistance of Shani Broner  
Art Space TLV Team: Nir Harmat, Orit and Roy Duer, Leeron Kaspa Tur
Special Thanks: Julia Strebelow, Eran Inbar, Shimon Allon, Didi Allon, Hadas Kedar  
Thanks to: Avital Globerman, Shai Zuker, Avi Lubin