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Podsumowanie
The joint exhibition presents an intensive dialogue on the past and present in Polish art through the relationship of a master and his apprentice.
Content
"Warpechowski/Dawicki" follows the history of Polish art through the works of Oskar Dawicki and Zbigniew Warpechowski. The dialogue takes on an ambiguous character as references to the past and present intermingle.
Zbigniew Warpechowski (born 1938 in USSR territory) is best known for his performance art pieces and theories on contemporary art forms. He traveled around Europe, Asia and the Americas, performing over 250 individual pieces that incorporate elements of iconography, theatre, poetry, musical performance and demonstration. His often scandalous works have a critical focus towards contemporary issues, such as consumer culture, media domination and cultural liberalism. In recent years, he has put out a series of publications that explore contemporary artistic practices and its relation to art, philosophy and creativity.
Warpechowski had a significant influence on conceptual artists of later generations, particularly on Oskar Dawicki (born 1971). Dawicki started his career as a performance artist in 1994 as a student. Challenging the nature of performance as such, Dawicki entered the level of meta-reflection, developing a new set of motifs as he explored the meanings and practices of performance and the role of the performer within them.
The exhibition at the MS museum in Łódź confronts the respective works of these artists with one another - doing away with chronology and allowing for a certain simultaneity of message and purpose. In the process, it negates modes of institutionalisation of Polish art of the Avant Garde.
The museum is simultaneously hosting another show dedicated to the works of Warpechowski, along with Bodzianowski, Konieczny and Uklański. The exhibit concerns itself with direct references and connections between artists of the 1970s and the younger generation of artists of the 1990s. It spans the birth of the conceptual and existential movements of the '60s and '70s and how these themes were taken on and transformed in the art of Piotr Uklański and Marek Konieczny several decades later.
"Warpechowski / Dawicki" and "Bodzianowski / Konieczny / Uklański / Warpechowski" are on at MS between February 22 - May 3, 2011.
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