Jonas Mekas "Images out of Darkness"
James Fuentes LLC
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James Fuentes announces a forthcoming exhibition of photographs by Jonas Mekas. This will be Mekas' third exhibition at the gallery.
"Images out of Darkness" recounts the years that Jonas Mekas and his brother Adolfas lived in Wiesbaden, Germany, in a displaced persons camp. In 1944, arrested by the Nazi's as they fled Lithuania, the brothers were placed in a forced labor camp where they worked in a machine factory. The brothers escaped and were detained near the Danish border where they hid on a farm for two months until the end of the war. After the war, they lived in displaced persons camps first in Wiesbaden and then in Kassel/Mattenberg. Between 1946-48 Mekas studied philosophy at the University of Mainz, the brothers immigrated to New York City in 1949 with assistance from the UN.
Two weeks after his arrival in New York Jonas borrowed money to buy his first Bolex camera and began to record brief moments of his life. Mekas is considered a pioneer of diaristic cinema, his commitment to life as subject continues to this day. "Images out of Darkness" marks Jonas Mekas' first visual essay.
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from October 05, 2012 to October 28, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-10-05 from 18:00 to 20:00