September 17 – February 19
Naples, FL
Located on the first floor of The Baker Museum
Mauricio Lasansky (1914–2012) moved to the United States in 1943. He was born in Argentina to parents who came to the country from Europe as Jews. As a printmaker and draftsman, he had a successful career, first in New York and then from studios in Iowa and Maine. His writing was often about war and violence. In 1961, when the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was being shown on TV, he started a series of huge drawings to deal with the Holocaust. When he saw what was happening, he said, “I was full of hate, poison, and I wanted to spit it out.” The self-titled series “The Nazi Drawings” is his visceral response to the horrible things that happened in Nazi concentration camps.
In Envisioning Evil, he shows a series of 33 huge drawings he made with pencil, turpentine, and earth colors. They are scary and real. The first time the series went on tour was more than 50 years ago. This exhibition is the first full showing of the series in a generation. There will also be old footage of the Eichmann trial shown.
https://artisnaples.org/baker-museum/exhibitions/2022-23/mauricio-lasansky
