4 Page 8 -The Michigan Daily-Friday, February 5, 1988 Artist reveals private personal collection By Lauren Shapiro Intimate private and personal matters are the subject of Hannelore Baron's exhibit The Last Ten Years: Collages and Boxes. While her art suggests the intensity of her life ex- perience and history, Baron also in- corporates a child-like mystique into many of her works. Baron began creating these col- lages and boxes from paper and cloth she collected. Often, she would stitch together cloth which had been spotted, scribbled on, torn, or frayed to convey the process of recycling. In an article on Baron, Sue Taylor notes that these worn materials have, "a look of history, of use and abuse; each is a record of rips and tears, su- tures and scars." Baron was born in Germany in 1926. She narrowly escaped the Holocaust by emigrating to the United States in the late 1930s. Sadly, Baron,saw both of her parents taken by the Nazis. In her earlier works, Baron revealed her pain and grief through figures oppressed by mummified wraps lying in body bags and coffins. More recently, Baron has begun to rely on her materials and collec- tive collages to convey her memo- ries. She uses softly muted colors which contrast with the strength of her powerful yet painful message. She also incorporates cloth striped like prisoners' uniforms and a strange hieroglyphic language which, through its crudity, remains a beautiful untranslatable message. Baron never formally studied art, but she feels "a continuity in both method and content, where one theme seems to grow out of the other without conscious effort." She wants her art to appear calm and realistic, so that "nothing is forced or artificial." With close self-analysis, Baron claims, "I am a pacifist, and find the world as it is almost intolerable. There is a strong feeling in me that as an exhibiting artist, it is my duty to make a statement for peace." In Baron's earlier works the use of torn flags suggest her protests of both war and dangerously nationalistic at- titudes. In one box work, Baron has tied together an old wooden box and put tokens from a child's game inside. One may view this work as Baron's own interpretation of her childhood in war-torn Germany - trapped in a box with no room to grow or ex- plore. This is the power within Baron's work. She allows her audi- ence to see within her experiences, yet her art leaves room for individual interpretation and sentiment. Hannelore Baron's exhibit THE LAST TEN YEARS: COLLAGES AND BOXES will be showing at the Alice Simsar Gallery until February 17, 1988. The Gallery is located at 301 North Main Street. The Gallery will be open Tuesday - Saturday, 10 - 5:30 p.m. For fur- ther information, call 665-4883. Artist Hannelore Baron creates a revealing collection of art from paper and cloth she has gathered during her lifetime in the exhibitt'The Last Ten Years:rCollages and Boxes.' 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