One I really love, it's a cut-out at the bottom here by Eliana Mandlova,
我特別喜愛的是下面的這一幅拼貼畫 由埃利安娜·曼德洛娃
who also doesn't make it out,and it's again an aerial view of an imaginary landscape of trees and mountains,
她也沒能幸存 同樣也是一幅鳥瞰圖 描繪了一片幻想中有山有樹的風(fēng)景
but the imaginary landscape is made from a piece of official filing paper of some sort, and dates and columns.
紙張制作的 有日期和表格 但是這片幻想風(fēng)景是由辦公填表用紙之類的
And here the material of bureaucracy, filing paper,has been turned by art into a place these children could go to for a while and feel alive and feel free.
在這里官僚主義的產(chǎn)物 填表用紙 被藝術(shù)轉(zhuǎn)變成了一個(gè) 這些孩子可以暫時(shí)去往感受生命與自由的地方
Of the 15,000 children who passed through Theresienstadt,barely 150 survived.
曾在特雷津集中營(yíng)生活過的一萬五千名兒童中 只有一百五十名活了下來
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis was murdered at Auschwitz on 9th October 1944.
弗利德·迪克-布朗德斯于1944年10月9日 在奧斯維辛慘遭謀殺
But thanks to her, the imprint of her young pupils' vitality remains inextinguishable.
但多虧了她 她那群幼小學(xué)生的畫作 得以保存 栩栩如生 永不消逝
Each picture defies the dehumanisation that was the condition of the Holocaust.
每一幅畫都表達(dá)著對(duì)人性滅絕的抗議 而這正是猶太人大屠殺的真實(shí)境況
But each picture also begs a larger question.
但每一幅畫也都在問著一個(gè)更大的問題
What was art to do in the face of a century of total war and genocide...
在這狼煙四起 種族屠殺的世紀(jì)面前 藝術(shù)能做什么
A century of revolution...
面對(duì)這個(gè)革命的世紀(jì)
A century of profound social and technological change...
這個(gè)正進(jìn)行著深刻的社會(huì)和科技變革的世紀(jì)
That's one small step for man,one giant leap for mankind.
"這是我個(gè)人的一小步 卻是人類的一大步"
A century in which all the hard-won rules of art were themselves torn up and thrown aside?
這個(gè)世紀(jì)中所有來之不易的藝術(shù)準(zhǔn)則 被打破并棄之荒野
Was art destined to become no more than a Sunday afternoon distraction?
難道藝術(shù)注定要墮落為 僅供人們假日消遣的俗物嗎
Or would it seek to be something deeper, more lasting,a way of re-envisioning the world?
還是說它期望成為更加深沉持久的事物 在人們的想象里重塑世界的樣貌
Would it be content to occupy a corner of our lives or aim to be at the centre of it?
藝術(shù)是滿足于占據(jù)我們生活的邊角縫隙 還是意圖成為我們生活的中心
Is the art of our own time just so much buzz and fashion,a hot investment for the rich,or is it an absolute necessity,the light from humanity's vital spark?
我們這個(gè)時(shí)代的藝術(shù) 到底是浮華于表 僅供富人投資的玩物 還是不可或缺的必需品 映照出人性的勃勃光華