Saatchi Online

Description: S h r i n e f o r a n A n o n y m o u s V i c t i m by T a d e us z M y sl o w s k i
Installation of art, music, and audio to be in original barrack of
former Nazi concentration camp where 360,000 perished

On July 23rd, 1999, the 55th Anniversary of the liberation of the Majdanek Nazi concentration camp in Lublin, Poland, Shrine for an Anonymous Victim by Tadeusz Myslowski, a New York-based artist, will be unveiled in Barrack #47 of the buildings which now house the Majdanek State Museum. Commissioned by the museum which was established in 1944 to serve as a reminder of Nazi horrors, Myslowskis installation will be comprised of two levels of bulbs, encased in barbed wire, each 32 cm in diameter. On th