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21/3/2013

Mikolaj Smoczynski

Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle - CCA Warsaw, Warsaw

curated by Ewa Gorządek

The exhibition of works from the late artist who passed away back in 2009, Mikołaj Smoczyński, who occupies a very important and unique place in the Polish art of the 1980s and 90s. It will present the most important aspects of his multifaceted work, in a clear way, accenting the inner relationship between the different formulas of artistic expression (photography, interventions and installations in the area of architecture, painting, drawing).

The work of Mikołaj Smoczyński stemmed from conceptual art experiences, and at its base lies a reflection on the status and meaning of art works. The essence of this work was individual experience captured in relation to reality in a state of change. Smoczyński’s primary medium of artistic expression was painting, and although he resigned from the traditional form of painting quite early on, further experiments, photographic works and monumental projects against an architectural space (installations as well as site-specific works), were a quest for an answer to the question, what is an Image. The artist returned to the Image/ object format towards the end of life.

The concept of the exhibition is based on highlighting the two most characteristic and important properties of Mikołaj Smoczyński’s art. The first, rewinding through all of his work, are attempts to reach the essence of what is painting and what is an image as well as the individual discourse with this media, leading to a continuous shift of its borders. The second property can be defined as an awareness of reality of the space in which artistic activities took place, leading to its treatment as an inherent component of the resulting works of art (video, photography, installations, buildings).

Most of the artist’s spatial arrangement was created as site-specific works, assigned to a specific place, and thus they are preserved only in the form of documentation. In order to summon the contexts as well as the idea of Smoczyński’s work in view of architecture, two eminent artists were invited to cooperate on the exhibition, Robert Kuśmirowski and Jarosław Kozakiewicz, who will implement special projects in it.

The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated, Polish-English catalogue.

Image: Mikołaj Smoczyński The secret performance, 1988

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Opening of the exhibition: March 22nd, 2013 at 6.00 p.m.

The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle
ul. Jazdów 2, 00-467 Warsaw, Poland
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