Description
A Holocaust survivor artist’s book about the ghostly spirit of Hitler.
The artist Dov Or-Ner, born in Paris in 1927, a member of Kibbutz Hatzor since 1955, and active from the 1970s as a conceptual-political artist, developed “Mail Art” and established the “Museum of Museums.” In 2000, Or-Ner returned to painting and developed an ongoing series of drawings, with the central figure being that of Hitler, or even more radically, his own figure disguised as Hitler, under the guise of “Bad Renorah”: an artist whose name is derived from the inversion of the letters in Dov Or-Ner.
Between 2009 and 2010, this series of drawings was elevated into a whirlwind of bacchanalia, in which the ghostly spirit of Hitler haunts Or-Ner, echoing his youth under the horrors of the Holocaust in Europe, and is no longer controllable or manageable. Or-Ner’s obsessive Hitler-mania transcends cultural boundaries, moving into the barbaric, macabre, and pornographic realms.
