I've been to Dachau and various other KZ's, worked with a KZ-memorial exhibition ... but I'd never got the idea to connect this with a KZ.
Sorry for being so ignorant, but I don't think that history is a reason to exclude a country from some "art".
I agree with Walter. At the same time, I find it hard to consider the pics true art.
edgarblythe wrote: I find it hard to consider the pics true art.
Well, I only can underline that
Italian classical painters paint pictures of big fat women.
Modern photographer photographs big fat women.
So it's the same, right? Art, innit?
Stands to reason.
I've seen his work often but don't find it particularly interesting - I too got the ethnic cleansing uncomfortable feeling from the pyramid - no particular country, just universal atrocities. It probably wasn't intended by the photographer - I hesitate to say artist as to me it's photography and not art. (now there's another can of worms! I agree that some photography can be art, just don't think this is, personal opinion)
Not being recently art schooled or having kept up, I dont know what is going on here besides the obvious. To me it is one more installation, reminding me of the wall of schoolchildren's bookbags I took a photo of when I wasn't allowed to photo otherwise in the ceramics museo in Faenza, may they rest in peace. Having been recently admitted to the morning tuning of very old violins in Cremona, I figured, re this place, pfui. Too bad.
ossobuco wrote:Not being recently art schooled or having kept up, I dont know what is going on here besides the obvious. .
.... nothing! (going on)
simply obvious and leaving me thinking 'so what?....'
your knowledge/instinct is fine without being recently art schooled
