Zbigniew Libera
Zbigniew Libera (born July 7, 1959 in Pabianice near Łódź , Poland) is a Polish artist. From 1982 to 1983 he was imprisoned for distributing banned writings. He was a co-founder of the punk band Sternenhoch .
He became internationally known through the controversy surrounding the Lego “ Concentration Camp ” kit , which he designed in 1996. The LEGO company gave the bricks to Libera without a precise idea of his project and without the knowledge that he was using them in this context. LEGO distanced itself from its work after it became known that Libera had put the words "sponsored by LEGO Systems" on the packaging. The Jewish Museum in New York City used these sets in 2002 as part of the exhibition Mirror of Evil ( Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery / Recent Art ). The criticism was that Libera played down the Holocaust . In 2012 the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art bought the Lego concentration camp.
Web links
- Zbigniew Libera
- users.erols.com , documentation about the controversy over the concentration camp. Retrieved November 18, 2014
- Zbigniew Libera's Lego Concentration Camp: Iconoclasm in Conceptual Art About the Shoah othervoices.org , accessed November 18, 2014
- culture.pl , curriculum vitae, accessed on November 18, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b www.globe-m.de ( Memento from December 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 18, 2014
- ↑ hosting.zkm.de , accessed on November 18, 2014
- ↑ www.zeit.de , accessed on November 18, 2014
- ↑ www.kunstmarkt.com , accessed on November 18, 2014
- ↑ latimes.com , accessed November 18, 2014
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| SURNAME | Libera, Zbigniew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pabianice near Łódź , Poland |