Zoran Music (1909-2005), Nous Ne Sommes Pas Les Derniers (We Are Not The Last), 1970, Lithograph

Zoran Music was born in Bukovica, near Gorozia, Italy, and was educated in Yugoslavia. He was arrested in Venice in 1944 for collaborating with the resistance, and was sent to Dachau. While in Dachau he made approximately 180 drawings, but less than half were preserved. Following the end of the war, he lived and worked in Venice and Paris.

In the seventies, after twenty years of working with various motifs, Music again focused on the subject of the Holocaust. These works are based on the hundreds of drawings he made in Dachau and immediately following his liberation from the camp in 1945. In this lithograph, from the "We Are Not The Last" series, we encounter a male figure wringing his hands and crying out to the Heavens. This cry is expressed by the open mouth, and also by the wide-open eyes. The camp-inmate's palms are large, and accentuate the emaciated body. The cry is directed at the empty white space - is there anyone or anything out there listening, who will answer this cry for help? Agitation and misery are evoked by the broken lines and the deliberate blurring of details.