Gyula Konkoly | "Ilsa, the Tiger of the Gulag" - Hommage

solo exhibition

With this exhibition, Gyula Konkoly is commemorating a picture he once painted in France, which was largely destroyed in the meantime. The actuality of this image follows from the similarity between then and now.

In the 1970s, Europe struggled with an oil crisis and double-digit inflation. Meanwhile, the "sixty-eight" youth of Western Europe were murdering and blowing up with Mao's little red book, although there was no mass epidemic or European war then.

Solzhenitsyn, a former prisoner of the Siberian labor camps, received the Nobel Prize for literature, lost his Soviet citizenship and temporarily settled in Paris. Solzhenitsyn revealed to the world that hell exists within institutional frameworks on Earth, in the Soviet Union.

The society of the "sixty-eighties" was not very interested in this, so the interest of the "Gulag Archipelago" sank to the bottom of operetta and porn.

Konkoly created his work, which is now only a fragment, when the porn film "Ilsa, the Tiger of the Gulag" was released. His current exhibition deals with the reconsideration of the original image and the similarity of the problems of the two eras.