Erna Rosenstein: Once Upon a Time

‘Rashid Johnson: The Hikers’ chronicles the eponymous collaboration between the Aspen Art Museum, Museo Tamayo, and Hauser & Wirth New York. The centerpiece of these exhibitions—which featured work from Johnson’s diverse practice, including Erna Rosenstein: Once Upon a Time is the first-ever monograph published outside of Poland that is devoted to the artist’s vast and complex oeuvre. Rosenstein (1913–2003) was a prolific artist whose varied output was informed by her experience as a Polish Jew during the Holocaust. Released on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in New York, and edited and with a text by exhibition curator Alison Gingeras, this book serves as an introduction to Rosenstein and her story. Alongside an extensive plates section, poems by Rosenstein are included in the book, as well as a special insert reproducing a fairy tale authored and illustrated by the artist. Art historian Dorota Jarecka has also contributed an essay, and the book additionally includes Rosenstein’s own narrative testimony of the war in Poland.