At 32 Szeroka Street, there is a simple tenement, which is to be demolished. However, before this happens, it has become the exit point for Robert Kuśmirowski's work prepared especially for ArtBoom Tauron Festival. The artist subjected the actual building to transformation changing it into a model of a project of demolishing oneself. It is a fickle action, because models are mainly created for something that is to be built, not something that is to be demolished. Kuśmirowski painted the facade white and marked on it places, that a demolishing sphere would hit or in where explosive materials would be placed. With the model of the demolition project, the artist referred to his own project Facade, which he realised in Blankenberge in Flandria (Belgium) in 2009.
The work poses questions about the role and place of modern art in public space, about its significance and sense, and above all about the fate of works being created in it, but also in galleries and museums. We invite you to 32 Szeroka Street, but also to a meeting with Robert Kuśmirowski, which will take place on Friday, 25 June at 5 p.m. in Wyspianski Pavilion. It will be dedicated to the presentation of chosen works of the artist, in this also the project Facade, realised in Blankenberge in Flandria (Belgium) in 2009 in the scope of Triennale Sztuki Beaufort ’03, in which the artist among historical facades of tenement buildings of a beautiful seaside resort created a facade of a tenement referring to damaged and neglected facades of tenements from Olejna Street in Lublin, which led to a stormy discussion on modern art, as well as its place and role in public space.