Title: Schindler's List' Signed Print Max FergusonArtist/Maker: Max FergusonDate: 1996Additional Info: Signed in ink by who spent the first 30 years of his life as what he calls “the world’s worst self-hating, self- denying Jew.” A transformation happened to him during trips abroad, when he realized what exactly it means to be a minority. “In Europe, I would meet people who said to me, ‘You are the only Jew I ever met,’ ” Ferguson said. When he decided to attend a synagogue service in Copenhagen, he was “frisked and interrogated” by synagogue guards and had to present his passport before he was allowed to go inside. The synagogue got numerous threats every day. In the summer of 1991, when Ferguson was living in Munich, he watched a German news report about the Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn, in which African Americans rioted and killed a Chasidic Torah student. It was then, he says, that he “realized that we are a tiny minority.” It was also then that he decided to study Hebrew and Yiddish, join an Orthodox synagogue and reflect his newfound Jewish identity in his paintings. ”Most of his work presents Judaism and Jewish culture in the context of the modern world. Ferguson’s “Schindler’s List” depicts a movie marquee advertising Steven Spielberg’s Holocaust film. Around the theater, life goes on as usual on a rainy day in New York City — parked cars flank the theater, a lone woman in the distance is walking down the street, a red “don’t walk” sign displays its businesslike message. Yet the Jewish content in the midst of the imagery of the modern world is unmistakably the focus of the piece. Ferguson’s journey is depicted in work that also draws attention to assimilation of Jews in the United States. His painting, “Ralph Lauren’s Worst Nightmare (Self-Portraits)” is two self-portraits of Ferguson side by side: In one, he is dressed like a Chasid, wearing a black hat and prayer shawl and sporting the thick beard he grew for the painting; in the other, he is clean-shaven and wearing a modern sport coat. An anecdote is written under the secular self-portrait: “A Jew and a hunchback are walking down the street. They go by a synagogue. The Jew says to the hunchback, ‘I used to be a Jew.’ And the hunchback says, ‘I used to be a hunchback.’ {excerpt from J.A.N) 1st Edition, approx. 22x28 inches. Gallery Henoch.
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