Richard McBee reviews the art exhibition October 7: Terror, Faith, Hope in Crown Heights Brooklyn.
….”This exhibition faces many of the same challenges that Holocaust memorials have faced over the last 70 years: how to respectfully, accurately, and creatively reflect an event in Jewish history that at its core is too horrible, brutal, and personal to begin to express. We are all aware of the role of symbols in Jewish mourning and tragedy. Therefore, even more difficult for these artists is the challenge of how to avoid using simplistic symbols and text as slogans. The temptation is great for quick and easy signifiers to express enormously complex concepts such as Israel, hate, faith, and pain. Confronting these fraught subjects, the artist’s creative job is to tell us something new that we didn’t know or feel about the unspeakable. This may be one of the most difficult challenges to be faced for contemporary Jewish artists – to move beyond mere illustration.”…
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Jewish Art Salon members in the exhibition: Carol Man, Yitzchok Moully, Leah Saab, Irina Sheynfeld and Jana Zimmer. Curated by Abigail H. Meyer.
Simchat Torah, Torah Cover; leather, 26” x 15”; by Yitzchak Moully.