Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Burnt Whole: Contemporary Artists Reflect on the Holocaust...
...rest of the exhibition is subtler, tamer and less effective. Burnt Whole: Contemporary Artists Reflect on the Holocaust delivers what its title promises, but not necessarily what the visitor expects. All thirty-one artists involved were born after World War II. Although there are some direct responses to the Holocaust itself, many of the works displayed are responses to response, depictions of secondhand guilt. Several of the artists are groping in the dark, trying to understand stories which were never spoken, and history which was never quite revealed to them. In their art, they try to grasp the meaning...
...finds himself asking the same question. Why is it so hard to recall the Holocaust through through this exhibition? The artists expect a lot of themselves, but so do the observers. There is a self-induced pressure to understand, not just mentally, but viscerally, the horror of mass death. Burnt Whole fails to produce the necessary gut reaction, leaving the viewer confused, between guilt and disappointment...
...Burnt Whole's set-up is a case of mistaken form-and-content parallel. The sterilization of mass memory is much more skilfully represented in specific pieces. The ICA's surgical ambiance serves only to deaden their effect. In the documentary, the art is more powerfully arranged on an exposed brick wall...
Tuesday afternoon, Kansas City Municipal airport. I am soaking my frustration over a delayed flight at one of those kitschy Cheers-imitation restaurants, when approached by a sun-burnt, 40ish man named Frank, one of the 60 or so Nebraska fans passing through the airport after their trip to Miami and the Orange Bowl. He is in a good mood, as his abrupt introductory remark indicates, and I am pretty pissed off. Believing cheer to be infectious, I decide to partake in a little whole-some midwestern badinage...