October 18, 2023 | 12pm | Virtual Only
Join us for an online conversation with artist Yishai Jusidman and guest curator Christian Viveros-Fauné, who will discuss Jusidman’s exhibition Prussian Blue, currently on view at OJMCHE as part of Converge 45, the city-wide arts festival. The memory of the Holocaust is perhaps one of the most problematic issues in the visual arts to represent because of its inherent aesthetic and moral dilemmas. As a post-war artist, Jusidman explores the challenge of how to preserve the visual memory of the Holocaust – the “representation of the unrepresentable,” as he also responds to the words of Theodore Adorno, “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” More specifically, Jusidman’s paintings ask us to consider the place of color in the darkest of memories of modern European history. What are the ethical limits of representing the Holocaust? How may we and how should we visualize the Holocaust? These are some of the issues that the artist and curator will explore in a conversation.
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Christian Viveros-Fauné (b. 1965, Santiago, Chile) has worked as a gallerist, art fair director, art critic, and curator since 1994. He was awarded Bucknell University’s Ekard Visiting Fellowship in 2023, the University of South Florida’s Kennedy Family Visiting Fellowship in 2018, a Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Grant in 2009, and named Critic in Residence at the Bronx Museum in 2011. He co-founded The Brooklyn Rail in 1999, wrote art criticism for The Village Voice from 2008 to 2016, and was the Art and Culture Critic for Artnet News from 2016 to 2018. He has lectured widely at institutions such as Yale University, Pratt University, and Holland’s Gerrit Rietveld Academie, and curated exhibitions at leading museums in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. He currently serves as Curator-at-Large at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum. He is also the author of several books. His most recent, Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art, was published by David Zwirner Books in 2018.
Yishai Jusidman (born 1960, Mexico City, Mexico) an artist of Jewish heritage currently based in Los Angeles, explores the history of paint and painting, and presents it through a contemporary lens. His noteworthy solo exhibitions include Prussian Blue, Americas Society, New York (2013) and MUAC, Mexico City (2016–17); Paintworks, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (2009); The Economist Shuffle, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York (2007); and mutatis mutandis/Working Painters, which traveled to SMAK in Ghent, Belgium, MEIAC in Badajoz, Spain, and MARCO in Monterrey, Mexico (2002–3). His paintings have been featured in such international group exhibitions as the 2014 SITE Santa Fe Biennial; the 2001 Venice Biennale; ARS 01, KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland (2001); and Ultrabaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the Miami Art Museum (2000–2003). Jusidman’s work is often included in panoramic exhibitions of Mexican contemporary art, as in The Era of Discrepancy, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2007); Echo—Contemporary Art from Mexico, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2003); and Soleils du Mexique, Petit Palais, Paris (2000).