The exhibition presents 7 works made by Boris Lurie. Sam Goodman, Armin Hundertmark and Stanley Fisher. The works are on display during Photobook Week Aarhus in HEART's foyer until November 30.
The NO!art Movement was formed in New York in the 1960s. It was a platform directed against the Art Market, the Art Establishment, the "hypocritical intelligentsia, capitalist culture manipulation, consumerism, American and other Molochs".
The main founder is Boris Lurie (born 1924 in Leningrad, Russia, grew up in Riga, Latvia). At the age of sixteen Lurie was taken prisoner by the Nazis and imprisoned for a period of four years at Buchenwald and other concentration camps. Lurie's mother, sister, grandmother, and teenage girlfriend were shot in the Rumbula forests on the outskirts of Riga in December 1941. He died in 2008 in New York and is buried in Haifa, Israel.
The other two founding members are the American Stanley Fisher (1929-1980) and the Canadian Sam Goodman (1919-1967).
The nexus of this group, which has only recently rediscovered in several exhibitions around the world, is based on two anchor points: First, the dystopic, yet often ironic, even humorous worldview, and second, in form of the NO BOX, a multiple by the German Edition Hundertmark, published in 1996, with 40 examples, 47 x 37 x 11 cm. This box, and selected works by the three main founders of the NO!art movement are the nucleus of this show at HEART.