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2010 EVENTS
14 May 6.00 p.m. Labirynt. The turning points in Avant Garde Painting, photography, installation, video, intermedia Organized by: BWA Gallery, Workshops of Culture, sub-office of Culture Center Venue: Workshops of Culture, 5 Popiełuszki Street The exhibition at the Workshops of Culture asks a question about the program of the BWA Gallery, its history and the nearest future. It will be an opportunity to see artworks from the collection, gathered through the years confronted with the works of young artists, which will only just appear in the gallery offer. The collection represents various kinds of new Avan-G, e.g. conceptual art, photomedialism, matter painting, concrete poetry as well as “The New Savage” and performance art. Most of the authors are classic artists of Polish contemporary art. To anyone, who would ask me whether it is a good idea to show classic artists side by side with unknown ones, which have just started their artistic career, I would say – why not? Exhibition open till 11 July 2010
Contexts of Jan Świdziński – fragments of retrospection (1970-2010) Curator of the exhibition: Grzegorz Borkowski
Jan Świdziński is well known as a theorist of contextual art and from his performance activity (as a curator as well as an artist). He exhibits rarely. Exhibition “Contexts of Jan Świdziński” gathers works of four decades past (among them work of this year titled “Differences”), but it is not arranged chronologically. Past contexts of the works are not the most important here. The exhibition asks viewers to experience Świdziński’s work in current context. It offers them a chance to give new meanings to the works using contexts they like. But the past won’t be forgotten, the exhibition will be accompanied by the display of publications, archive materials and documents from Jan Świdziński’s activity. To add to that discussion panel “Between contextual theory and practice” will be held on June 5th 1pm between Kazimierz Piotrowski, Małgorzata Butterwick and Bartosz Łukasiewicz moderated by Grzegorz Borkowski.
Jan Świdziński (born 1923, Bydgoszcz) studied architecture in Warsaw Institute of Technology and painting in Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. 1965-70 engaged in formal logic and theory of language structures, founded the Art Research Section of Polish Cybernetics Association and departed further and further from painting. In the early 70-ties begun to organize various kinds of interventions and artistic manifestations, collaborated with many artistic groups e.g.: NET, Permafo and The Workshop of the Film Form. 1970 published his article Dispute about the existence of art and begun is activity as a theorist of art. 1976 published a manifesto Art as Contextual Art, an epitome of the concept of contextual art, which brought him worldwide appreciation and still is one of the key reference points for reflection on contemporary art dynamic. His books were published in Canada and Western Europe, e.g.: Art, Society and Self-consciousness, Art as Contextual Art; Quotations on Contextual Art; Freedom and Limitation; L’art et son contexte. 2009 two fundamental books by Świdziński Art, Society and Self-consciousness and Art as Contextual Art were published for the first time in Polish. 2005 honored with Polonia Restituta Order for his contribution to development and promotion of Polish culture home and abroad. Grzegorz Borkowski
exhibition open till July 11th 2010 Financed by Minister of Culture and National Heritage
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