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Ori Gersht, 100 Bridges, 2010, C-print
History Repeating: A Conversation with Artist Ori Gersht and Curator Al Miner – Co-presented by Artis & The Jewish Museum
Ori Gersht, 100 Bridges, 2010, C-print
History Repeating: A Conversation with Artist Ori Gersht and Curator Al Miner
Co-presented by Artis & The Jewish Museum
Part of the event series Dialogue and Discourse
Thursday, September 6, 2012 – 6:30pm
The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street
New York, NY 10128
FREE – RSVP required to Persis Singh at persis@artiscontemporary.org or 212-285-0960
On the occasion of his first major survey exhibition, Ori Gersht: History Repeating at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (August 28 - January 6), Gersht and exhibition curator Al Miner will discuss Gersht’s evolving body of work and the diverse threads of history woven throughout his oeuvre. With a special introduction by Norman Kleeblatt, Chief Curator of The Jewish Museum.
In evocative and innovative films and photographs, Ori Gersht weds the past and the present. With the latest technology he takes a discerning look at multiple histories and the ways they are communicated: histories that have shaped his own identity and helped define the state of contemporary society. Gersht’s images, with sources ranging from 19th century still life painting to the Holocaust, reveal the links between history and memory, creation and destruction, and beauty and violence while exploring the passage of time.
Ori Gersht's photograph Olive 10 (2004), from Ghost, a series of color photographs of centuries-old olive trees in the Galilee in Israel, will be on view at The Jewish Museum from August 11 to October 7, 2012.
About Ori Gersht
Ori Gersht (b. 1967, Tel Aviv; lives and works in London) is an artist working in photography and new media. He received an M.A. in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London and a B.A. in Photography, Film and Video from the University of Westminster, London. Gersht has had numerous solo exhibitions internationally, most recently This Storm is What We Call Progress at the Imperial War Museum, Midnight Moment, a large-scale public installation in the heart of Time Square NYC, Lost in Time at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA and Ori Gersht: Falling Petals at CRG Gallery, New York; Angles Gallery, Los Angeles; and Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv. His upcoming solo exhibition History Repeating at the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, curated by Al Miner, is his first major survey exhibition. He is represented by CRG Gallery, New York; Angles Gallery, Los Angeles; and Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv.
About Al Miner
Al Miner is the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston since September 2010. Miner curated Ori Gersht: History Repeating, the first survey exhibition of the Israeli photographer and new media artist and authored a major monograph of the same title. He is also organizing the upcoming exhibition Daniel Rich: Platforms of Power, the New York painter’s first museum solo exhibition, open September 29 through March 31. Prior to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Miner worked at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. where he curated major projects and commissions by artists Dan Graham and Yoko Ono, served as coordinating curator for the first North American retrospective of the work of the German artist, Blinky Palermo and managed the major two-part video exhibition, The Cinema Effect. Miner is the recipient of numerous fellowships and his passion for the art and artists of our time stems from his own background and practice as an artist.
Co-presented by Artis & The Jewish Museum
Part of the event series Dialogue and Discourse
Thursday, September 6, 2012 – 6:30pm
The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street
New York, NY 10128
FREE – RSVP required to Persis Singh at persis@artiscontemporary.org or 212-285-0960
On the occasion of his first major survey exhibition, Ori Gersht: History Repeating at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (August 28 - January 6), Gersht and exhibition curator Al Miner will discuss Gersht’s evolving body of work and the diverse threads of history woven throughout his oeuvre. With a special introduction by Norman Kleeblatt, Chief Curator of The Jewish Museum.
In evocative and innovative films and photographs, Ori Gersht weds the past and the present. With the latest technology he takes a discerning look at multiple histories and the ways they are communicated: histories that have shaped his own identity and helped define the state of contemporary society. Gersht’s images, with sources ranging from 19th century still life painting to the Holocaust, reveal the links between history and memory, creation and destruction, and beauty and violence while exploring the passage of time.
Ori Gersht's photograph Olive 10 (2004), from Ghost, a series of color photographs of centuries-old olive trees in the Galilee in Israel, will be on view at The Jewish Museum from August 11 to October 7, 2012.
About Ori Gersht
Ori Gersht (b. 1967, Tel Aviv; lives and works in London) is an artist working in photography and new media. He received an M.A. in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London and a B.A. in Photography, Film and Video from the University of Westminster, London. Gersht has had numerous solo exhibitions internationally, most recently This Storm is What We Call Progress at the Imperial War Museum, Midnight Moment, a large-scale public installation in the heart of Time Square NYC, Lost in Time at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA and Ori Gersht: Falling Petals at CRG Gallery, New York; Angles Gallery, Los Angeles; and Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv. His upcoming solo exhibition History Repeating at the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, curated by Al Miner, is his first major survey exhibition. He is represented by CRG Gallery, New York; Angles Gallery, Los Angeles; and Noga Gallery, Tel Aviv.
About Al Miner
Al Miner is the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston since September 2010. Miner curated Ori Gersht: History Repeating, the first survey exhibition of the Israeli photographer and new media artist and authored a major monograph of the same title. He is also organizing the upcoming exhibition Daniel Rich: Platforms of Power, the New York painter’s first museum solo exhibition, open September 29 through March 31. Prior to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Miner worked at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. where he curated major projects and commissions by artists Dan Graham and Yoko Ono, served as coordinating curator for the first North American retrospective of the work of the German artist, Blinky Palermo and managed the major two-part video exhibition, The Cinema Effect. Miner is the recipient of numerous fellowships and his passion for the art and artists of our time stems from his own background and practice as an artist.
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