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‘Zeitgenössische Kunst gegen das Vergessen’ [Contemporary Art against
Forgetting] at the Jewish Museum Berlin [author’s note: at the time still a
department of the Berlin Museum]. There your achievement, your outcry,
your rebellion as painting would have extraordinary meaning!” 02
This recommendation did not come to fruition, but, in 2009, the Jewish
Museum Berlin did acquire one small work by Boris Lurie, which was inventoried
under the title “Entebee, acrylic on canvas, 1977, New York,” with the
number 2009/187/0. And now the works of Boris Lurie are coming to the
Jewish Museum Berlin for several months.
We thank the Boris Lurie Art Foundation, and in particular Gertrude Stein
and Anthony Williams, Igor Satanovsky, Jessica Wallen, and Chris Shultz, for
their commitment and the generous financial and organizational support
for the exhibition, and Wolfgang Leidhold for the idea and mediation in order
to show a retrospective with works by Boris Lurie at the Jewish Museum
Berlin.
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NEUE GESELLSCHAFT
FÜR BILDENDE
KUNST, ED.
NO!art Berlin:
nGbK, 1995.
“I would have loved to make pretty pictures ...”