Click Here to View: Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present at the Leila Heller Gallery from May 08 to August 14, 2014.
SANDRO CHIA
Happy Birthday, 2011
Oil on canvas
65 x 53.1 in / 165 x 135 cm
Courtesy Galleria Maggiore, Italy
“I’d tried to straighten him out, but there’s only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.”
― David Sedaris
It is 69 years since the summer of 1945 when WW11 ended,and the year in which the concentration camps were liberated. Very few of those concentration camp survivors remain, and in not too long a time, there will be no more eye witnesses to that history.
For those of us who see this as a grave fragility, it becomes very important that we take our responsibility to continue to dispense information about the holocaust with great seriousness. Ignorance harbors danger.
There is excellent Holocaust literature and movies. Continue reading The Lodz Ghetto, Review by Selma Duckler