Maurycy Gomulicki, "Pink Riders", photograph, 2002, photo - press materials
This exhibition explores three different worlds of 'pink', each one as surprising as the colour itself, prodding the colour's paradoxical store of meanings, from the infantile and subversive, sensual and vulgar, innocent and licentiou
Pink happens to be Maria Pinińska-Bereś's, Basia Bańda's and Maurycy Gomulicki's trademark. In their works its unusual potential and unpredictable character is revealed. For each of these artists pink expresses different issues, different sets of values. For each of them the colour assumes specific shades, intensities, "degrees of pinkness" and raises different emotions.
Apart from the colour, the artists share an interest in the area of human corporeality and sexuality and the codes, symbols and myths that are connected with them.
They are interested in social taboos, areas of unconventional behaviours, roles and signs. They address intimate issues, explore human needs and fears. In the process, each of them presents a different artistic stance, uses a characteristic, vivid language, demonstrates a unique approach towards the problems of human corporeality. They display different sensitivities to the form, material and huge area of visuality of the topics concerning gender and relations between the male and female elements. Erotic symbols, phallic and vaginal shapes and a passionately practiced pink enable them to navigate through the clearly and lucidly defined territory that nevertheless remains astonishingly hazy.
- Magdalena Linkowska, curator of the "Three Roses" exhibition
The corporeal, sensual aspect of the colour pink is only one of the multitude of references brought on by the artistic practice of the three artists. In the case of Maria Pinińska-Bereś, she reaches to the deeply personal existential sphere in the attempt to find a language for expressing a specifically feminine experience. For Basia Bańda pink connotes intimacy in addition to organic and physiological aspects, looking to what is untamed in man and attributed to nature. Maurycy Gomulicki on the other hand is an "anthropologist of pink". He researches and monitors all of its displays and degrees of intensity in various cultures.
In the past few decades separating their birthdates, the social, political and cultural situation, which influences their methods of creation and lives, has undergone a substantial change.
This exhibition is an attempt at conveying the uniqueness of human experience. It's about searching for diversity in that, which is similar, about paying attention to various points of view, which manifest themselves in the arrangement of accents, of which even the most delicate ones decide about the microcosm of every man. Alongside the subtle, poetic and ironic works of Maria Pinińska-Bereś the disturbing and 'roguish' pieces by Basia Bańda and the provoking ecstatic fetishes by Maurycy Gomulicki will be exhibited.
- Magdalena Linkowska, curator of the "Three Roses" exhibition.
Curator: Magdalena Linkowska.
"Three Roses" exhibition takes place from the 18th of November and runs through the 30th of December 2011 at the Labyrinth Gallery and Lipowa 13 LTZP Gallery in Lublin.
Culture.pl is a media patron of this event.
Labyrinth Gallery
ul. Grodzka 5a
Lublin
Lipowa 13 LTZP Gallery
ul. Lipowa13)
Lublin
Source: press release