Dek Unu Magazine - Yechiam Gal

Israeli multi-disciplinary artist Yechiam Gal’s semi-autobiographical, cartoon-like book, The Legend of the Goldbergers, is an astonishing adventure in visual and literary storytelling. It is a memoir, but a memoir in which Gal says he allows himself “extravagant fabrications” – an accurate, but entirely inadequate description for the excursion into fantasy that the work requires. In both the images and the narrative, hugely disparate parts are blended together in bursts of color, confusion, and connections. Gal the writer and Gal the image maker leave the straight edges of reality far behind in favor of myth and mystery.