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13/2/2013

Three exhibitions

MOCAK - Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow

Piotr Blamowski
Obsessive Scenes / Utopian Design

Piotr Blamowski’s exhibitions will be presented in two galleries at MOCAK. In Alfa Gallery, utilitarian and decorative objects will be exhibited, including an eclectic bench, a rosary praying game, an Art Deco newspaper rack and a framed trophy. This exhibition will be a reference to the Polish and British design exhibition at Level 0.

Piotr Blamowski also makes videos. In Beta Gallery a collection of short art films by the design-generation group will be shown. The films evoke places in the cultural imagination that has been grafted onto us. They are daring, eccentric and humorous; often, cruel, terrifying and obscene, too. The dynamic of the action is emphasised by the edgy editing, reminiscent of TV adverts. The sound track for each film has been carefully selected.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue which provides analysis of Piotr Blamowski’s two-pronged artistic activity: video and design. The DVD enclosed with the catalogue contains all the films made by the design-generation group.

The video presented in Beta Gallery has adult-only content.

Piotr Blamowski (born 1966) – graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. He is involved with utopian design, proposing furniture and interiors which hark back to various styles and epochs. His trademark is a ‘pathological’ breach of historic styles, with a simultaneous perfectionism in the execution and employing top quality materials. The artist also makes videos. Since 2010, Piotr Blamowski together with the camera operator Michał Sterzyński have been active as the design-generation group. They have made some forty film etudes, which present the grey Polish mundanity in a mode of hyperbolised absurdity.


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Everything Forever Now
Polish and British Sustainable Design

Curator, the British component: Henrietta Thompson
Curator, the Polish component: Magda Kochanowska
Co-ordinators: Ewa Ayton, Evonne Mackenzie, Agnieszka Wrycza, Monika Kozioł

The exhibition presents the works of designers who have set out to search for the ways to save the planet by focusing on the promotion of self-sufficient communities, the improvement of the efficiency of the infrastructure and the development of new materials.

The exhibition presents sustainable design projects, which aim to enable development without destruction. The characteristic features of these projects are their use of renewables and the elimination of any negative impact on the natural environment.

The exhibition has four main themes: method, community, material, resources.

British designers: Bill Amberg Studio, Paolo Bombelli & Alex Driver & Carlos Peralta, Fabien Cappello, Neil Conley, EADS UK Ltd, Raw Edges and Oscar Narud, Yu Jordy Fu, Grimshaw Architects & WindPower Ltd, JAMESPLUMB , Markus Kayser, Julia Lohmann, Priestmangoode, Florie Salnot, Studiomama, Unreal, Hulger & Samuel Wilkinson, Bethan Laura Wood, Wayward Plants.

Polish designers: Natalia Bieńkowska, Daria Burlińska, Jan Lutyk, Ania Łyszcz, Karina Marusińska, Knockout design, Kompott, Katarzyna Koprowska, Jarosław Kozakiewicz, Marta Niemywska, Robert Pludra, Magda Rychard, Jakub Sobiepanek, Maja Szczypek, Fundacja Transformacja, WellDone

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Beyond Corrupted Eye Akumulatory 2 Gallery, 1972-1990

Curators: Bożena Czubak, Jarosław Kozłowski
Co-ordinator: Katarzyna Wąs

This exhibition, previously shown at the Zachęta National Gallery in Warsaw, attempts to present the history of Galeria Akumulatory 2 in Poznań – a place that for the eighteen years of its activity provided a non-commercial exhibition space for artists from all over the world. Throughout, Galeria Akumulatory 2 was an important spot on the map of artistic Poland.

During 1972–1990, 195 presentations (exhibitions, performances, actions, musical activities and lectures) were organised in Galeria Akumulatory 2. The gallery had a quasi-institutional status, lacking as it did any institutional backup and being obliged to exhibit in ever-changing venues.

The materials compiled for the present exhibition and the publication that accompanies it provide an insight into art practices which developed outside the official art circles, within the complex zone of artistic strategies implemented despite artists’ being forced to function within the restrictive status quo of soc-realism.

The eponymous ‘incorruptible eye’ refers both to the act of perception and to visibility. On the one hand, it refers to perception which does not cave in to ideological pressure and commercial temptations; on the other, to the distortion of what is deemed visible and what has been relegated to the realm of invisible.

The documentation compiled for the exhibition and the catalogue is largely based on hitherto unpublished material, making possible a new, in-depth study of the history presented.

Artists: Joanna Adamczewska, Eric Andersen, Angelo de Aquino, Lone Arendal, Imre Bak, Eduard Bal, Philippa Beale, Andrzej Bereziański, Terry Berkowitz, Tony Bevan, John Blake, Włodzimierz Borowski, János Brendel, Leszek Brogowski, Wojciech Bruszewski, Victor Burgin, Henri Chopin, Carlfriedrich Claus, COUM Transmissions, Michael Craig-Martin, Maria (Mariola) Dąbrowska, Andrzej Dłużniewski, Andrew Dutkewych, Janusz Dziubak, Jerzy Fedorowicz, Joel Fisher, Fluxus (A-Yo, George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Joe Jones, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Paul Sharits, Ben Vautier, Robert Watts), Ken Friedman, Wolfgang Fuchs, Adam Garnek, Mariusz Gill, Raimund Girke, Nat Goodden, Trevor Gould, Tom J. Gramse, Izabella Gustowska, Gerard Hemsworth, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Susan Hiller, John Hilliard, Douglas Huebler, Tatsuo Ikeda, Jeff Instone, Jacek Jagielski, Sven-Ake Johansson, Joan Jonas, Kirsten Justensen, Margrit Kahl, Tadeusz Kalinowski, Jerzy Kałucki, Koji Kamoji, Kanal 2, Hiroshi Kawathu, Alicja Kępińska, Robin Klassnik, Akira Komoto, Jerzy Kopeć, Andrzej Kostołowski, Jarosław Kozłowski, Mariusz Kruk, László Lakner, Rolf Langebartels, Ólafur Lárusson, Richard Long, Jerzy Ludwiński, Hanna Łuczak, George Maciunas, Zbigniew Makarewicz, Peter Mandrup (Peter Mandrup Hansen), Joan Mathews, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Danuta Mączak, Barry McCallion, Ian McKeever, Yukiyoshi Moriya, Ian Murray, Avis Newman, Helmut Nickels, Ann Noël, Wojciech Olejniczak, Susan Ormerod, Tomasz Osiński, Andrzej Partum, Sef Peeters, Bogdan Perzyński, The Play, Mikołaj Poliński, Ludmiła Popiel-Fedorowicz, Michael Porter, Piotr Postaremczak, Maria Anna Potocka, Pamela Robertson-Pearce, Jerzy Rosołowicz, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Toshinori Saito, Barbara Schmidt-Heins i Gabriele Schmidt-Heins, Peter Jörg Splettstösser, Galerie S:t Petri, Helmut Streich, Sudurgata 7, Kishio Suga, Piotr Szyhalski, Feliks Szyszko, Petr Štembera, Amikam Toren, Francesc Torres, Endre Tót, David Troostwyk, Andrzej Turowski, Jacek Tylicki, Janos Urban, Jiří Valoch, Tadeusz Walter, Franz Erhard Walther, Lawrence Weiner, Andrzej Wielgosz, Emmett Williams, Richard Wilson, Tomasz Wilmański, Dorotheé von Windheim, Krzysztof Wodiczko

Collaboration: Natalia Brandt, Magdalena Komornicka

Image: Piotr Blamowski, design-generation XXI, 2010, video

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Opening Thursday 14 February at 6 pm

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