Artist: Slava Polishchuk

Title: Wall

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Date: 2002

Dimensions: 90″ x 448″

Location in Library: Second floor

Media: Oil and paper on canvas

Owner: The Brooklyn College Library Collection.

Gift of Slava Polishchuk. © Slava Polishchuk

Description:

Human suffering and its inevitability has long been a theme in Polishchuk’s work. Inspired by Jeremiah’s Lament in the Bible, this work has a box-within-a-box motif that echoes the rhythmic and repetitive phrasing of Jeremiah’s text. Polishchuk states: “Repetition is similar to the idea of memory, which is essentially an endless repetition of something that once happened . . . all we have in our struggle against time is memory.”

An arresting canvas, this mural-like painting combines 10 to 15 coats of paint with Japanese paper, creating innumerable hues of black and white as well as rich and haunting textures.

Related Websites

– Interview with Asya Dodina & Slava Polishchuk, Studio International

– Asya Dodina& Slava Polishchuk ” What Remains”, NY ART BEAT