{"id":68458,"date":"2023-03-01T15:21:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=68458"},"modified":"2023-03-02T13:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T20:04:45","slug":"new-exhibition-examines-the-complicated-life-of-jewish-born-italian-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/new-exhibition-examines-the-complicated-life-of-jewish-born-italian-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"New exhibition examines the complicated life of Jewish-born Italian artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University announced that a new art exhibition, entitled: A Complicated Life in Complicated Times: Gino Parin and the Holocaust, <\/em>will be coming to the Clara M. Lovett Art Museum in Old Main. An opening reception will be held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on March 23.<\/p>\n

\"Gino<\/a>
Gino Parin, Portrait of Necki Springer, oil on canvas, ca. 1938.
Necki was born in Trieste, and he and his sister, Magda, were friends of Parin. Necki was 19 when Parin painted this portrait of him. At the time, Italy’s racial laws meant that the artist could no longer legally work for non-Jewish clients. But he continued to create portraits of his friends. Necki immigrated to the United States in the early 1950s and eventually settled in Cottonwood, AZ. The paintings and drawings in the exhibition come from Necki’s collection.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Art Exhibition<\/strong>:
\nFeb. 28 \u2013 April 28
\nReception<\/strong>:
\n5:30-7:30 p.m. on March 23
\nLocation<\/strong>:
\nClara M. Lovett Art Museum, Northern Arizona University; art.museum@nau.edu
\nHours<\/strong>:
\nnoon to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
\n1:30-5 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday<\/p>\n

The Holocaust seems long ago and far away. And yet, fragments of the lives it destroyed and affected can be found even in remote corners of Arizona. How and why did paintings by a Jewish-born artist from the Italian port city of Trieste, who died in a Nazi concentration camp, end up in Cottonwood?<\/p>\n

This is what a faculty-student group from NAU, under the mentorship of Bj\u00f6rn Krondorfer, director of the Martin-Springer Institute, and Alexandra Carpino, professor of art history in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, investigated. The resulting exhibition, \u201cA Complicated Life in Complicated Times: Gino Parin and the Holocaust,\u201d unpacks the story of an artist with dual Swiss and Italian citizenship who lived in Trieste before and during the rise of Italian fascism. Born Jewish, Parin converted to Catholicism in his early 20s. When Nazi Germany occupied Trieste in 1943, Parin was arrested and deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, where he died.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Gino<\/a>
Gino Parin, Landscape with Boat, oil on canvas, ca. 1925-1930 – Parin painted many landscapes throughout his career, and examples like this one in the exhibition represent idyllic, colorful, and atmospheric evocations of sites in and around his birthplace, Trieste.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Visitors to the exhibition will encounter a life of nuances and complications during the first half of the 20th<\/sup> century. \u201cWhen we embarked on this journey with students, we had no idea whether we would find any information about this Italian painter,\u201d Krondorfer said. \u201cVirtually unknown in the United States, what we discovered about Parin was not what we expected. At times, it felt like a detective story.\u201d<\/p>\n

The featured paintings and drawings are from the collection of Necki Springer, a family friend of Parin, who immigrated to the United States and eventually settled in Cottonwood.<\/p>\n

The exhibition also includes QR codes that will allow visitors to access the podcast series, Gino Parin in Trieste: Portrait of an Artist during the Holocaust<\/em>, a second public humanities collaboration between NAU students, Krondorfer and Carpino.<\/p>\n

\"Alexis<\/a>
Alexis Nelson (left) and Elizabeth White (right) after installing the text panel and photograph about one of the Italian detention camps Gino Parin was sent to after his arrest by the Nazis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Contact:
\n<\/strong>Bj\u00f6rn Krondorfer
\nbjorn.krondorfer@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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