2015

NACHBARN Carlebach Küchentuch Paintings, 2015

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NACHBARN/NEIGHBORS, a commissioned exhibition for the Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck, Germany   Click here for more information.

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7 February – 29 May 2016

Ken Aptekar, Carlebach Küchentuch #1, 2015, oil/linen mounted on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts, 100cm x 200cm, (diptych), English translation: 1941. Food rations for the Simson Carlebach family are reduced. Jews are not permitted to buy meat, milk, cigarettes, or white bread, and can shop only between the hours of 4PM and 5PM.
Ken Aptekar, Carlebach Küchentuch #1, 2015, oil/linen mounted on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts, 100cm x 200cm, (diptych), English translation: 1941. Food rations for the Simson Carlebach family are reduced. Jews are not permitted to buy meat, milk, cigarettes, or white bread, and can shop only between the hours of 4PM and 5PM.
Ken Apekar, Carlebach Küchentuch #2, 2015, oil/linen mounted on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts, 100cm x 200cm, (diptych) English translation: After nightfall, neighbors provide the family with food that they secretly leave inside their garden gate, a crime severely punished by the Nazis.
Ken Apekar, Carlebach Küchentuch #2, 2015, oil/linen mounted on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts, 100cm x 200cm, (diptych) English translation: After nightfall, neighbors provide the family with food that they secretly leave inside their garden gate, a crime severely punished by the Nazis.
Ken Aptekar, Carlebach Küchentuch #3, 2015, oil/linen mounted on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts, 100cm x 200cm, (diptych) English translation: When the Carlebachs find out the Nazis are coming to pick them up, they tie a monogrammed kitchen towel to the garden gate, a final thank you and farewell.
Ken Aptekar, Carlebach Küchentuch #3, 2015, oil/linen mounted on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts, 100cm x 200cm, (diptych) English translation: When the Carlebachs find out the Nazis are coming to pick them up, they tie a monogrammed kitchen towel to the garden gate, a final thank you and farewell.
Ken Aptekar, Carlebach Küchentuch #4, 2015, oil/linen mounted on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts, 100cm x 200cm, (diptych) English translation: Nearly five decades after the Nazis murdered most of the Lübeck Jews in the Bikerniecki forest in Riga, the Hanseatic City welcomes Simson Carlebach's son Felix. He managed to escape to England in 1939.
Ken Aptekar, Carlebach Küchentuch #4, 2015, oil/linen mounted on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts, 100cm x 200cm, (diptych) English translation: Nearly five decades after the Nazis murdered most of the Lübeck Jews in the Bikerniecki forest in Riga, the Hanseatic City welcomes Simson Carlebach’s son Felix. He managed to escape to England in 1939.
Ken Aptekar, Carlebach Küchentuch #5, 2015, oil/linen mounted on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts, 100cm x 200cm, (diptych) English translation: In the town hall near the synagogue, where Salomon Carlebach was Rabbi from 1870 to 1919, Felix Carlebach and his family are honored by the people of Lübeck.
Ken Aptekar, Carlebach Küchentuch #5, 2015, oil/linen mounted on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts, 100cm x 200cm, (diptych) English translation: In the town hall near the synagogue, where Salomon Carlebach was Rabbi from 1870 to 1919, Felix Carlebach and his family are honored by the people of Lübeck.
Ken Aptekar, Carlebach Küchentuch #6, 2015, oil/linen mounted on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts, 100cm x 200cm, (diptych) English translation: A woman approaches the guest of honor. “Our parents were neighbors. I brought you something that belongs to you,” she says, and hands him the monogrammed kitchen towel.
Ken Aptekar, Carlebach Küchentuch #6, 2015, oil/linen mounted on wood, sandblasted glass, bolts, 100cm x 200cm, (diptych) English translation: A woman approaches the guest of honor. “Our parents were neighbors. I brought you something that belongs to you,” she says, and hands him the monogrammed kitchen towel.