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Zdeněk Daniel: My Black-and-White Shadows - Memento Mori

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Abstract

An exhibition of paintings by Zdeněk Daniel (born 1970), an architect and artist from Jablonec nad Nisou. His father, Zdeněk Daniel, Senior (born 1929), was saved from the transport of Roma from Moravia to Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1943, but the rest of the family perished during the war.

The family's wartime history was a difficult topic for Zdeněk Daniel, Jr. It was only in 2016 that he decided to put his struggle to reconcile himself to it on paper, delivering eight paintings on the topic of the Holocaust that are dramatically different from the rest of his artwork.

The opening of the exhibition marked the 75th anniversary of the transport of Roma from the Protectorate to Auschwitz-Birkenau.