The fund co-sponsored an exhibition by Jan Vanriet in the Byzantine Museum, titled ‘Misleading sun’.
Among the selected works was a reduced series of ink drawings ‘A guard in the Sun’, 25 sheets, on which Vanriet reproduces the contours of a Mauthausen camp guard snoozing in the sun. The curator Martin Germann explained his choice : Mauthausen is the place where Vanriet’s parents were imprisoned. It was also the place to which Jews were deported, from Thessaloniki’s station, as well as the place that thanks to Mikis Theodorakis’ Mauthausen Cantate became a musical monument in Greece. The text was by Iakovos Kambenellis, also imprisoned there and a friend of Vanriet’s parents. This graphic registration on paper are an emphatic, desperate struggle to depict Hannah Arendt’s Banality of Evil, shown in its pure form here. The trans-European cultural links were strongly present.
The catalogue is available on request
