Boys and girls
dal 16/2/2004 al 4/4/2004
Segnalato da
16/2/2004
Boys and girls
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Thirteen extremely interesting artistic groups, invited for this exhibition deal in a more or less direct way with challenging prevailing social cliches of thought on the theme of ''what is typically female or male''.
curator: Magda Kardasz
Art is one of the most individual human activities. Paradoxically it can
also be created by a pair or a group of people who manage to find a way to
produce a common work of art or artistic event. Over recent years, a wave
of groups of women or girls working together has emerged, reversing the
previous male dominance of this phenomenon. This simple observation
triggered the idea for an exhibition that would be a review of men's and
women's artistic groups, an exhibition that would pose the question of the
similarities and differences of their approaches towards art. A
significant part of this project will be the live performances at the
opening night. Thirteen extremely interesting artistic groups, invited for
this exhibition deal in a more or less direct way with challenging
prevailing social cliches of thought on the theme of "what is typically
female or male".
The field of curatorial search for participants was on
sample - the northern Europe. Therefore invited groups come from Denmark,
Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Lithuania, Germany, Norway, Poland and Russia
consist of young and very young artists whose work constitutes a
commentary of the contemporary. Another factor linking these groups is
sense of humour visible in their works and that their favourite medium is
performance or simply - artistic action.
The exhibition "Boys and Girls"
however is not just recording of life events that will be on view, but
also films, photographs and objects created by members of the following
artistic groups:
1) Supergroup AZORRO: Oskar Dawicki, Igor Krenz, Wojtek Niedzielko and
Lukasz Skapski (Poland)
2) BLIZGE: Zilvinas Landzbergas, Rokas Petruskevicius and Mindaugas
Lukosaitis (Lithuania)
3) The Factory of Found Clothes from St. Petersburg (Natalia
Pershina-Yakimanskaya (Gluklya) and Olga Egorova (Tsaplya)
4) GRZENDA: Ewa Szczyrek, Malgorzata Markiewicz and Karolina Kowalska
(Poland)
5) The Icelandic Love Corporation: Sigrun Hrolfsdottir, Joni Jonsdottir
and Eirun -Sigurdardottir (Reykjavik)
6) kebbelife: Vanessa Baird and Mette Hellenes (Norway)
7) Frank Luesing (Hamburg) and Oliver Kochta (currently Helsinki)
8) Frank Luesing and Aleksander Rischer as Cardiophon (Hamburg)
9) Parfyme: Pelle Bragge Anderson and Ebbe Dam Meinhild (Denmark)
10) rasmus knud: Sebastian Schiorring and Johannes Christoffersen
(Denmark)
11) Share Joy (or Sheer Joy - Estonia): Piret Rani, Anu Vahtra, Ivika Kivi
and others
12) VOUKKOSET (Finland): in the reduced line-up: Tallervo Kaleinen and
Niina Braun
13) Lone Bank, Christina Malbek and Tanja Rau (Denmark).
The exhibition "Boys and Girls" will be accompanied by the catalogue
including a questionnaire for the artists prepared by the curator, as well
as documentation of the live performances taken place at the opening
night.
We acknowledge thanks to the Patron of Zacheta Gallery: BRE BANK S.A.,
ZACHETA NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
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00-916 Warsaw, Poland
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