6:00 PM | Messages from a Pandemic:
AIDS Posters from the Wolfsonian Collection
Co-presented by: Coral Gables Museum, The Wolfsonian-FIU, and The Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab
Join Dr. Julio Capó, Jr., Deputy Director, Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, and Wolfsonian-FIU curator Shoshana Resnikoff as they explore how poster design communicated life-saving, complex, and sometimes contradictory messages during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Unpacking the visuals of these posters—pulled from The Wolfsonian’ s extensive collection—Capó and Resnikoff will explore some of the themes present in the selection on view in A Matter of Time while connecting them to their work on the online exhibition Messages from a Pandemic.
Images from left to right:
– Tu vida es según el color… con que mires el SIDA: Evita el contagio (Your life is according to the color … with which you look at AIDS: Prevent contagion), year unknown. Photography: Gabriel Figueroa Flores. Consejo Nacional para la Prevención y el Control del SIDA (CONASIDA). Mexico, 22” x 17”. Collection of The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, Gift of Henry S. Hacker & Family.
– SPID—Sluchainye sviazi (AIDS—Random Encounters), 1990. Artwork: G. Nemkova and G. Kamenskikh. Edition: N. Bogomolova. Art edition: V. Shcharban’. Technical Edition: E. Kurova; Plakat Publishing House. Moscow, Russia, 18 ⅝” x 26 ⅝”. Collection of The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, Gift of Henry S. Hacker & Family.
– Stop AIDS, 1995. Design: Lex Drewinski. Berlin, Germany, 39 ⅜” x 27 ⅝”. Collection of The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, Gift of Henry S. Hacker & Family.
7:30 PM | Artists in Crisis
By Professor Carol Damian, Ph. D.
In this presentation, Professor Damian will set the context to understand the art production of a group of local artists who contracted and died of AIDS at the end of the eighties and beginning of the nineties. She will refer to the specific works by Carlos Alfonzo, Jon Fernando Brito, Fernando Garcia, Juan Gonzalez, Carlos A. Macia included in our current exhibition A Matter of Time…
This event will be available both in-person at the Coral Gables Museum and online via Zoom. No RSVP is required.
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