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Bellmer Hans, Fudakowski Kasia, Janas Piotr, Jurczak Dorota, Kowalski Tomasz, Macuga Goshka, Monsiel Edmund, Ziółkowski Jakub Julian |
Exhibition: Przekleństwa Wyobraźni [Curses of the Imagination]Przekleństwa wyobraźni [Curses of the Imagination] was an exhibition, starting with the increasingly visible theme in Polish painting of a return to the aesthetic of surrealism and abstraction. In this theme there was a place for intimate, introverted art, reflecting the internal world of the creator. Layered autobiographical narrations revealed the space constructed by the dreams, fears, and obsessions of the authors. What connected the worlds of the artists was visible in the works Podróż do wnętrza ciała [Journey to the Inside of the Body], enrobed in the surrealism, fascination with physicality that was devoided of form, sometimes objectification and sadisim. Making use of traditional techniques, often using figurative language, with excerpts and quotations from the history of art and expansion on themes appearing in naïve art, they demonstrate not only the great erudition of the artists, but also that they are creating their own spaces in the annals of visual culture. An important element of works created under the sign of the return to the imagination seems to be their narrative quality, storytelling, and dreamy tales that are often strange, unsettling, fascinating, and at the same time seductive.  The project was intended to pose the challenge of looking closely at the phenomena that could be described as a return to the imagination. Despite the fact that those invited represent a kinship in their type of sensitivity, they were still the authors of their own, individual artistic languages. The creative work of the best-known artists associated with the rebirth of interest in surrealism, include: Jakub Julian Ziółkowski, Tomasz Kowalski, works of those that are recognised as precursors of this approach such as Piotr Janas, and also the work of an artist still not widely-known in Poland, Dorota Jurczak. The worlds depicted on their canvases finds extension in the exhibition spaces in sculptural object and special installations of Goshka Macuga and Kasia Fudakowska. The works of Hans Bellmer and Edmund Monsiel appeared as a kind of supplemental material, consisting of citations and reference points, reminding the viewer of the form and content fascinations of those artists invited to participate in the exhibition.  Curses of the Imagination was played out in a space built in allusion to the aesthetic and worlds presented in the works exhibited, specific themes, motifs, forms, colours, and moods was revolved and recur in various places in the exhibition.  The exhibition was to be accompanied by an album with the works of the artist as a catalogue of texts and images. The key to the selection of the texts was a sort of kinship between the words and the images and atmosphere that they emanate. The leading motif enjoining the chosen fragment was the theme of the exhibition – Curses of the Imagination. |
18 - 27/06/2010
Exhibition: Przekleństwa Wyobraźni [Curses of the Imagination]
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