On this site we use cookies to aid your use of our service and for statistical purposes. By not blocking the cookies you consent to our use of cookies and the storage of data in memory. Remember that you can manage the cookies yourself by changing the settings on your browser. Edward Dwurnik is one of the few contemporary painters who take on board historic themes. He was born in the year of the Ghetto Rising and has experienced in his own life all the acts of historical violence that befell Poland from that moment onwards.
Looking at Gomulicki's work retrospectively, one notices the evolution of forms revolving around the categories of pleasure and ecstasy, already evident in the series of photographs shown in the 90s, ia, in the ZPAF-CSW Little Gallery; photographs which revealed a fascination with dolls and bodily parts, particularly parts of the female body, which the artist would render abstract by extreme close-up β an attempt to penetrate and decipher the carnal code of desire and fantasy.
The Council of the Swiss foundation Vordemberge-Gildewart has invited Maria Anna Potocka to participate in the organisation of the next year's edition of the stipend competition. The international jury will vote the winner from the artists selected by the curator. History in Art is an international exhibition aiming to research in which ways history builds identity in the dimensions of the society and the individual.
One of the main aims of the presentation is to examine the image of history in circulation; exposing the mendacities and inaccuracies present in the documentation of historical events. When the Museum came into being, he returned to that idea and handed over to the institution the Krakow part of his collection. Discussion about the book, in which ten authors β art historians and critics, researchers of contemporary art and curators working with the artist β describe the artistic practice of JarosΕaw KozΕowski.
He movingly portrays his father and his own childhood and youth. Showing of films which combine into an installation by the Israeli artist Yael Bartana, who is representing Poland at the 54th Art Biennale in Venice.
