Creator Bio
Gerard Marx
b. ca. 1941
Born in Luxemburg, Gerard (Gerry) Marx grew up in New York and studied art there. In 1968, he moved to Jerusalem. In the early 1970s, he was one of the first Israeli conceptual artists, creating art installations, some together with Joshua Neustein and Georgette Batlle.
Content by Gerard Marx
Primary Source
Boots, Gallery House, Jerusalem
Boots was composed of 17,000 pairs of army boots piled up in the gallery. The boots are an obvious reference to soldiers in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), but also evoke the piles of shoes of…