NOVEMBER 11 - 14, 2021
BORIS LURIE: NO!ART
Paris Photo, Grand Palais Éphémère, Galerie Odile Ouizman, Booth A3
The Boris Lurie Art Foundation and Galerie Odile Ouizman are pleased to participate in the 2021 edition of Paris Photo with a presentation of Boris Lurie's exploration of the photographic medium.
The personal story of this extraordinary artist-founding member of NO!art, a radical movement conceived in New York towards the end of the 1950s-mingles with the bloody history of the 20th century. Lurie, a survivor of Buchenwald, produced politically and socially charged imagery. In 1963, his now famous artwork, Railroad Collage (Railroad to America), which superimposed a pin-up in front of victims of a concentration camp-scandalized.
The collected images are assembled to illustrate Wim Wenders' theory "to photograph is above all to renew amazement." This selection reveals photography as an object "found" and multiplied, an appearance of a world that has remained alive; other plastics processes altering the sensitive surface of the image.
Within Boris Lurie's work, does the photographic print become a phenomenological contact test of reality?