2023-06-23 20:37:24
The Jewish Museum of São Paulo, which exhibits the exhibition “Boris Lurie – Art, Mourning and Survival”, promotes this Saturday, June 24, at 4:30 pm, the chat “Psychoanalysis and Sadomasochism”. With mediation by Felipe Chaimovich, curator of the institution, the second conversation of the public programs of the exhibition presents the influences of sadomasochism in the artist’s work. The event has a special participation by the dominatrix Morgana, and by the psychoanalyst and researcher at the Núcleo Diversitas FFLCH/USP, Maria Homem.
Jewish Museum exhibits exhibition by Boris Lurie and promotes conversation with psychoanalyst Maria Homem regarding “Psychoanalysis and Sadomasochism” this Saturday
Developed with support from the Boris Lurie Foundation, the exhibition “Boris Lurie – Art, Mourning and Survival” explores the artist’s legacy through 44 collages, drawings, paintings and sculptures guided by the memory of the events and crossed by a strong erotic component, at times sometimes sadomasochistic. Until the 9th of July, the Jewish Museum of São Paulo presents an important set of works by him, continuing a series of exhibitions held in Europe, the United States and Latin America.
Born in Leningrad, Russia, in 1924, Boris lived his childhood and adolescence in Riga, Latvia. In 1941, his mother, maternal grandmother, younger sister and his first girlfriend were murdered following being arrested in an evacuation camp. Lurie and her father, in turn, passed through the Lenta and Salaspils labor camps and the Stutthof and Buchenwald-Magdeburg concentration camps and survived the Shoah. Freed in 1945, they emigrated to the United States.
It was in New York, where he emigrated with the help of an older sister, that Lurie began the artistic training that would allow him to give new forms to memory. This process is felt, for example, in “The Portrait of my mother before the execution”, from 1947, an evocation of the mother figure and a key work in her journey of mourning/creation. From her, the figure of the woman becomes permanent in his work, as well as the yellow Star of David – an element that marked Jewish people during the Nazi regime and that the artist
The debate is mediated by Felipe Chaimovich, curator of the Jewish Museum of São Paulo, and the special participation of the dominatrix Morgana continued to use in her clothes following emigrating to the United States.
“Boris Lurie produced paintings and objects with the yellow star, including using underwear, such as underpants and corsets”, writes the curator, noting the indissociability between death and desire in the artist’s work. “By refusing to forget, his clothing continued to testify to an implacable survival”, adds Chaimovich.
Attending the New York art school Art Students League and having lived with gestural painters like the French Pierre Soulages, Lurie used the language and the North American mass media to work on his pin-ups. From 1955, he produced collages critical of the objectification of the female body and, in 1960, he founded No! Art, a movement once morest the values of the consumer society of the time created together with Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher. Back in Riga in 1975, for the first time since World War II, he began writing a travel diary, which, together with a fiction novel, were published posthumously.
“An artist who survived not because he was supported by art, but because of it”, suggests Felipe Arruda, Executive Director of the Jewish Museum. “An artist who has confronted and re-elaborated throughout his life the images of witnessed horror, who vocalized in his works the protest once morest anti-Semitism, who manipulated signs of sex, , consumption, power and death to build a critical work and without dodging, sometimes disturbing.”
About the Jewish Museum of São Paulo (MUJ)
Inaugurated following twenty years of planning, the Jewish Museum of São Paulo is the result of civil society mobilization. In addition to four floors of exhibitions, visitors also have access to a library with over a thousand books for consultation and a café serving Jewish foods. For the 2023 projects, MUJ has Banco Alfa and Itaú as sponsors and CSN, Leal Equipamentos de Segurança, Banco Daycoval, Porto Seguro, Deutsche Bank, Cescon Barrieu, RaiaDrogasil SA, BMA Advogados, Credit Suisse and Verde Asset Management as supporters.
About the Boris Lurie Foundation
Located in New Jersey, USA, the Boris Lurie Art Foundation is dedicated to caring for and publicizing the life, work and aspirations of Boris Lurie and to preserving and promoting the NO!art movement with a focus on the social visionary in art and in culture. The Foundation owns the artist’s works, poetry, personal writings and archives, as well as the works of other NO!art artists that are under its control, making them available to the public and educational institutions worldwide. In the spirit of Lurie’s legacy, the foundation supports a variety of initiatives, including exhibitions, publications, films, acquisitions, internships and donations.
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Boris Lurie – Art, Mourning and Survival
Jewish Museum of São Paulo (MUJ)
Curator: Felipe Chaimovich
Exhibition period: from April 5 to July 9
Location: Rua Martinho Prado, 128 – São Paulo, SP
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm (last entry at 6:30 pm)
Admission: R$ 20 whole; R$10 half. Free on Saturdays
Rating: Free
Access for people with reduced mobility
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