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Ner Ot - Candles in the Art of Samuel Bak (Hardcover)
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Ner Ot - Candles in the Art of Samuel Bak (Hardcover)
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In the art of Samuel Bak, familiar objects fracture before our
eyes, abandoning their traditional functions to become metaphors
for a dissonant, broken world. Inhabitants of a surrealistic space,
Bak's candles are abused, damaged, melting, lifeless, and bathed in
the somber afterglow of profound sorrow. The cylindrical candles
morph into tree trunks, logs, chimneys, columns, missiles, and
other projectiles, exposing the frequent disorder at the heart of
the supposed orderly progression of history. An icon of memory
becomes a ruse, where the flames of remembrance mingle with the
drifting smoke of extermination. Amidst the anguish of his
paintings, however, Bak allows for the notion that life can rise
anew from the ashes. In his enlightening essay, Lawrence L. Langer
guides us through the ritual of remembering the Holocaust through
Bak's paintings, familiarizing the viewer with a past that may feel
abstract to many of us. While Bak's paintings provide an entry
point into the reality of the Shoah that our modern consciousness
struggles to confront, Langer's words explicate the historical,
religious, and cultural narratives that inform the artwork.
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