art photo 27. LIBERA Zbigniew - Lego [1996].

Artist vintage print, dimension 17x25 cm. Artist's signature and date on back of photo.

The work Lego. Concentration Camp is considered one of the most important works of Polish art of the 1990s and Zbigniew Libera's most famous work. It consists of seven boxes of bricks, deceptively imitating Lego sets, from which the artist built a Nazi concentration camp. The work was made entirely from elements "borrowed" from existing Lego sets: a police station, pirates, etc. Thebricks were supplied to the artist by the company itself, which is why the box bears the inscription: "This work of Zbigniew Libera has been sponsored by Lego," for which the Lego company wanted to take Libera to court. The work received enormous publicity; purchased for the collection of New York's Jewish Museum, it became the inspiration for an important exhibition there, Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art (2002).

The studio photograph was taken while working on the project.