JANUARY 29 - MAY 29, 2022
BORIS LURIE & WOLF VOSTELL: ART AFTER AUSCHWITZ
Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands
The confrontational work of artists Boris Lurie (1924 -2008) and Wolf Vostell (1932 - 1998) comes together for the first time in the exhibition Art after Auschwitz. It is these two artists who radically placed the Shoah (the Hebrew equivalent of the Holocaust) at the center of their art from the late 1950s. In a period when the war was unmentionable for many, they chose to create art that confronts the viewer with this painful past. By combining the most gruesome images of war crimes with superficial advertisements, their work is at the same time an indictment of the post-war consumer society, which continued unabated and did not do justice to the trauma suffered by Jews and others.