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fab collection

This is a great piece by Soutine – I think he is one of the 20th Century’s best artists. There are not many works by Soutine in the UK, so it’s good to have one in the BenUri collection. Especially given his biography.
A further point: whilst I can understand BenUri’s commitment to exploring artists’ experiences of displacement and loss, I hope it will not lose the focus on the essential (for me) core of the project: that of the Jewish history.
I enjoyed the exhibition at Somerset House, but was somewhat dismayed by the video, which seemed to confirm my anxieties about the loss of focus, and I was surprised that the speakers included someone who I would consider racist.

Had to return to this exhibition in the context of the current refugee and migrant crisis. My maternal grandfather was a refugee from Vienna to London in 1939. He got a US visa and went there first doing military service in California. He became an eminent architect historian at Columbia University. I come for him and for all forced into exile, following refugee and migrant paths, those who survived their journeys and those who died. Ben Uri may continue to travel just as our causes and spirits and lives and art do. May its transient homes and visitors be full of open hearts and minds. Thank you.

it grieves me to think that Josef Hermans 1941 painting of refugees is a spitting image of the pictures we see today of people fleeing from Saria and too many other places. Iet us all work towards a better world.

fab exhibition. Really love the merrygoround!

fantastic exhibition

This is an unusual image , it remembers a loved and lost family member without omitting the detail of Auschwitz . Images of the Holocaust are rare . It seems that people who have experienced this trauma find it imposible to depict , without the images being bleak visceral difficult. This combination of personal care and love, as well as pain and distress is a difficult and complex fusion . I find the central figure tender and simplified , it’s quite carefully thought out and expressed , as well as the forlorn little female figure at bottom left.

Lovely and powerful exhibition, thank you for sharing!

not super keen on the grating middle class accents from the curators on the audio guides. Would have been interesting to hear from some of the people affected or related to those involved in migration, etc.

i thought this exhibition on immigrants and the culture surrounding them to be very relevant to the london life. It should be better advertised so more people could be aware of the importance of multiculturalism. Thank you for your work!

interesting gallery, much better than my mum told me it would be thank you very much for dupplying this’entertainment’ haha im rambling on now but yes thank you very muc i love west ham amd this galler is ham

This is a great self portrait of Fred Feigl

My late wife, Usha used to paint with him in 1959-1964. He did a portrait of my late wife before we got married in 1962!. We have several of his works in the house which we enjoy.

Museum of migration. Polical correctness gone mad. Why destroy the wonderful museum of Jewish art?

It’s very gorgious and beutiful paintings.
Hope is goes well forever

Great exhibition! Thank you 🙂