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Indepth Arts News:
"JAN VAN LEEUWEN: CONFRONTATIONS WITH MEMORY"
2000-03-10 until 2000-04-23
Holocaust Museum Houston
Houston, TX,
USA United States
Alomst fifty years after the Holocaust, Jan van Leeuwen's childhood memories
of Nazi occupied Amsterdam of his friends and classmates began to haunt his
photographs. In a fit of anger van Leeuwen produced two series of Cyanotypes
after learning how the events in Yugoslavia, in the early 1990's, seemed to
mirror those of Nazi Germany. The emotions and images captured in van
Leeuwen's photographs echo his experience as a child and cry out in protest
against the resurgence of discrimination and extermination among ethnic
groups.
Holocaust Museum Houston presents JAN VAN LEEUWEN Confrontations With
Memory March 9 till April 23, 2000. Central Gallery Holocaust Museum
Houston, 5401 Caroline. Museum Hours: Monday-Friday 9 am-5 pm. Saturday &
Sunday noon -5 pm. This exhibition is co-sponsored by Holocaust Museum
Houston and Fotofest 2000. The Untitiled suite, a purchase with funds
provided by Joan and Stanford Alexander and Max and Isabel Smith Herzstein,
has been generously lent by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The
Self-portraits have been kindly lent by Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery in
Dallas, Texas.
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