Robert Russell's solo exhibition at Anat Ebgi gallery, 'Porzellan Manufaktur Allach,' shines light on the slave laborers of Dachau concentration camp.
“marriage gifts, baby gifts, for moving up the ranks,” says Russell, who is Jewish.
Robert Russell’s 7-foot-tall works in his studio. The giant canvases depict porcelain figurines that were commissioned by Nazi Party leader Heinrich Himmler.week before the exhibition, the 7-foot-tall paintings are both hauntingly pretty and grotesque, given the history and their enormity. At first glance they highlight seemingly benign objects one might find in their grandmother’s den
“I wanted to kind of acknowledge the monstrousness of that whole endeavor,” Russell says of the porcelain figurines. “To take them out of the realm of cutesy. These could have been done very precious — I could have made little paintings. And they would have only stayed precious. Here they’re so assertive. You have to deal with it.”
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