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(b. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1964). He studied architecture at the Universidad de Santa Ursula, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; at Yeshivat Aish Hatorah, Jerusalem, Israel , and the Escola de Arts Visuais do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His work encompasses the contemplation of religion, history and painting through contemporary perception. Utilizing biographical elements such as his parents' history, Goldfarb explores the values and visual vocabulary of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He works upon raw canvases that are bleached and at times cured in halogen lights, creating a pale background that "is the very skin tone upon which the holocaust was inscribed". This bleaching of the canvas and the knots of the embroidery upon it represents words and anguish that otherwise could not be expressed so concisely. The colorlessness represents grieving, and thus Goldfarb's paintings imply a remembrance of past events. He has exhibited throughout Latin America and Europe since 1995. <
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