On the Way to Auschwitz*
Description
Executed in: 2014
Medium: coloured marker on carboard
Size: 127 x 96 cm (133 x 102 cm with frame)
Signed and dated on the front lower right in black "Tara 2014 07 28 Engelthal SB"
Provenance
Private Collection, Romania.
Location
Bucharest
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Description
Tara von Neudorf is one of the Romanian artists who contested the official brand of art represented by Romania’s Union of Visual Artists. His artistic practice included the use of ready-mades such as old communist-era schoolroom maps and educational posters. The artifacts of the previous totalitarian regime become the support for his sensitive subjects pertaining to a society in transition, negotiating issues previously considered to be taboo, such as sexual freedom, religion, war crimes and the challenges of systemic corruption and geopolitical culture. The context of the place from where Tara comes – Transylvania – is his starting point for his artistic narratives about identity, difficult history, the coexistence of cultures, unhealed wounds and the emptiness of now depopulated towns and villages. His most famous series, “Black Rumania” (2005), comments on the relations between Romania and the European Union and underpins the existential dread of a community whose destiny is at the mercy of forces that complicate the realization of any political ideal: poverty, stupidity, racism, terror, manipulation, bureaucracy, greed and despair.
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