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Montages: Debora Vogel and the New Legend of the City

Oct 27 - Feb 4 2018       ul. Gdańska 43
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Vogel (1900-1942) was a member of the Artes Association of Artists and Designers, a group of artists in Lviv greatly inspired by French art, and predominantly focused on avant-garde, surrealism, and modernism (as opposed to naturalism)—even incorporating elements of architecture into their work. Today, Vogel is being rediscovered as an important avant-garde writer, critic, and theorist of art. She mostly worked with montage and photomontage—so the element of layering, contrasting, and combining is heavily displayed in this exhibition. The element of the city is focused on Lviv—an integral city to Vogel's story and creative journey. Lviv was the city in which Vogel worked, created, influenced, and was influenced by—and ultimately, the city in which her life ended (she was murdered in the liquidation of the Lviv ghetto in 1942). The exhibition contextualises Vogel's works and surrounding aesthetic from the mid-1920s through the 1930s, featuring examples of abstract art, street surrealism, and various experiments leading to social realism. These works are contextualised against the backdrop of Lviv and illustrated by documentary photographs, artefacts, representations, and remaining traces of the consumerist philosophy that was beginning to emerge in the city at that time.
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