Biennale Venedig 2019: Giardini 2
Teil 5 der informativen visuellen Tour durch die zentrale Ausstellung "May You Live in Interesting Times". Kurator: Ralph Rugoff. 11. Mai - 24. Nov. 2019
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Suum cuique. 2019
Gemälde von Peter Bonde, Fotografien von Gustav (Neffe des Künstlers), Bleistift auf Papier von Phung Vo (Vater des Künstlers) und Stühle nach Entwurf von Franz Ehrlich.
In Danh Vo’s practice, history meets the artist's own biography through charged symbolic objects, and the literal and metaphorical involvement of family members and friends.
Suum cuique features mirror paintings by his former professor Peter Bonde, who once recommended that Vo quit painting. Alongside these are photographs of Vo's nephew and occasional muse Gustav, who appears to represent emancipated and self-aware youth.
The chairs replicate designs by Bauhaus artist Franz Ehrlich, who sketched them while imprisoned in the Nazi's Buchenwald concentration camp. Ehrlich also designed the lettering for the text embedded in the gates to Buchenwald, "Jedem das Seine", hand-written here by Vo's father Phung Vo. This phrase, meaning ‘to each his own' - which derives from the Roman legal maxim “suum unicuique" - was appropriated by the Nazis to convey that everyone gets the fate they deserve.
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© Foto: Haupt & Binder
Teil 5 der informativen visuellen Tour durch die zentrale Ausstellung "May You Live in Interesting Times". Kurator: Ralph Rugoff. 11. Mai - 24. Nov. 2019