The Holocaust is a rupture that has rewritten what was previously thought about culture, history and man. In the aftermath, language and art must also represent the unspeakable in a state of severe depletion and decline. Should we keep silent about what cannot be spoken of (Wittgenstein, Adorno), or do we have no choice but to speak about it with several mouths at once?
Participants:
- Sugár János artist, Head of Intermedia Department (MKE)
- Prőhle Gergely former ambassador, Director of Otto Habsburg Foundation, Lay Leader of the Evangelical Church
- Kurdi Imre literary historian, literary translator
- Készman József art historian, curator
The discussion will be moderated by Rózsa T. Endre art writer, editor
The genre-crossing, socially critical works of Boris Lurie (1924–2008) and Wolf Vostell (1932–1998), presented at the exhibition Art after the Shoah, took a radical approach to the Holocaust from the late 1950s onwards. At a time when the majority of society was trying to get over the memory of the war and the responsibility of the Germans as quickly as possible, the two artists experimented with a form of expression that confronted their audience with this painful subject – interpreting it in a particular way and holding up a mirror to the dangerous delusion of a prosperous, emerging society to which, from their point of view, art was also subordinated.
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