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<\/p>\nOn Friday 26 April, in cooperation with Boris Lurie Art Foundation, an exhibition \u201cArtist and Witness\u201d by world-famous artist Boris Lurie, founder of the NO!art movement, will open at Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre.<\/p>\n
Boris Lurie (Jul 18, 1924 \u2013 Jan 7, 2008), an American artist and writer, born in Leningrad into a Jewish family and grew up in Riga. From 1941 to 1945, he was imprisoned in German concentration camps. His mother, grandmother and sister were killed by the Nazis in Rumbula.<\/p>\n
He co-founded the NO!art movement which calls for art leading to social action. The goal was to have art address the disconcerting truths: racism, imperialism, sexism, colonialism, depravity. The movement favours \u201ctotally unabashed self-expression leading to social action\u201d and is opposed to the worldwide capitalist \u201cinvestment art market\u201d, to pop-art that celebrates consumerism and to decorative \u201csalon art\u201d. Lurie\u2019s highly controversial work, sometimes combining imagery deriving from the Holocaust with samplings from popular culture, advertising, and girlie magazines, alienated critics and curators and was ignored by the art establishment.
\nLurie\u2019 work is currently held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) and the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA; NYC), Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC).).<\/p>\n
Besides exhibition opening on 26 April, admirers of Boris Lurie\u2019s art are invited to attend other events that will explore his biography, work and ideas:
\n11 a.m. \u201cTruth or Mystifications. Confrontation of Boris Lurie with Mark Rothko\u201d \u2013 lecture by Dr Eckhart Gillen;
\n12 a.m. \u201cThe Art of Boris Lurie\u201d by Rudij Bergmann \u2013 film screening and meeting with the director;
\n2 p.m. Artist talks \u2013 press conference, featuring Mr Rafael Vostell, advisor of the Boris Lurie Art Foundation.<\/p>\n
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