from July 30th 2022   (2 – 5 pm) The Merz Barn, Elterwater, LA22 9JB

Entartete Kunst (anti-Fascist) Artists Memorial

You are cordially invited to the Entartete Kunst (anti-fascist) artists’ memorial, commemorating the artists who were persecuted by the Nazis and declared ‘degenerate’ (entartet) and forced into exile.

дітей – Ukrainian public art project – artists and architects against fascism in Europe This year the memorial event is also dedicated to the memory of the 600 children and mothers who died in the Russian bombing of the Art School in Mariupol to which they had been evacuated, on 16th March 2022 <https://apnews.com/article/Russia-ukraine-war-mariupol-theater-c321a196fbd568899841b506afcac7a1>

Programme 8th October:

/2.00 – 5.30 pm   Guided tours of the exhibitions at the Merz Barn site – KS75 (75th anniversary of the creation of the Merz Barn artwork.  The Entartete Kunst and Kurt Schwitters exhibition includes the ‘Children of Mariupol’ public memorial and the Ukrainian Architecture Pavilion project.

6.00 pm  A light supper of home made vegetable soup and local sourdough bread with musical accompaniment.

7.00 pm  Professor Michael White (Professor of Art History, University of York) will give the final annual Kurt Schwitters lecture.   https://www.york.ac.uk/history-of-art/staff/white/

9.00 pm  Weather permitting, the event will conclude with the lighting up of the Ukrainian Land Art project with 500 candles marking out the outlines of the Ukrainian word for children; (дітей) on the landscape site near the Merz Barn. The ‘Reading of the Names’ of the entartete Kunst artists will take place afterwards in the memorial circle beside the Merz Barn.

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