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19/2/2015

Three exhibitions

Wroclaw Contemporary Museum MWW, Wroclaw

20.2.15–4.5.15
Earth

Artists participating in the exhibition: Paolo Barrile, Jan Chwałczyk, Jarosław Fliciński, Habima Fuchs, Wanda Gołkowska, Igor Grubić, Konrad Jarodzki, Zdzisław Jurkiewicz, Natalia LL, John Latham, Szymon Małecki, Robert Morris, Elżbieta Tejchman

Curator Sylwia Serafinowicz

In Polish, the word “ziemia” may refer to the uppermost layer of the Earth’s crust or it could denote a geographical land; when capitalized, it functions as the proper name of the third planet in the Solar System. All these three meanings are reflected in the works featured at the exhibition, which were made between 1958 and today.

Thinking about earth in terms of an astrophysical phenomenon or as material (e.g. clay, sand, stone, natural dyes) dates back to the beginning of the practice which we call art. This interest was integral to human history; in the second half of the 20th century it acquired the character of social and political engagement, and thus became the foundation of a new approach to art and the natural environment.

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20.2.15–1.6.15
Agnieszka Brzeżanska
Homeland/Ma Terra

The title of Agnieszka Brzeżanska’s exhibition makes a reference to a 1955 book titled Ziemia rodzinna [Homeland], which was prepared by poets Tadeusz Kubiak and Artur Międzyrzecki, and photographer Edward Hartwig. The book consisted of photographs and poems praising the beauty of the Polish landscape, which became the starting point for a tale of living in the natural world with all its vitality and fertility, as well as of an openness that makes it possible to overcome one’s isolation and reach beyond oneself, which thus situates the human being in a field of mutual interaction with other creatures inhabiting the Earth.

However, in Ma Terra the artist does not encourage us to contemplate the beauty of Polish landscapes, but rather to come into organic contact with the life-giving matter of earth, that which gave rise to all that exists. This is pulsating matter, full of potentialities, fertility and mysteries. On the one hand, a series of microscope photographs of clods of earth, titled Honomeia, reveals a fascinating picture of the life-giving matter, a liquid and luminescent substance teeming with cellular bubbles where plant nerves and roots intertwine with each other. On the other hand, in her series of paintings and works on paper (“Nawia”, “Jawia”, “Rusałki”) whose titles make references to elements taken from an ancient Slavic religion, Brzeżańska unearths the subsequent layers of primeval universe, which in this culture assumed the form of a tree.

Both these worlds seem to be unexpectedly close because they are full of abstract, expressionist images made up from interwoven dynamic lines and oval, circular or bubbly shapes, which are often identified with the feminine element in Western culture. This similarity of photographic structures and paintings featured at the exhibition highlights the invisible unity of the world in all its manifestations, a community of existences, symbols and meanings.

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20.2.15–18.5.15
Soft Codes
Conceptual tendencies in Slovak art

Curator: Dr Vladimir Beskid

Soft Codes focuses on key tendencies of modern and contemporary art in Slovakia, including concept art and post-conceptual practices in visual arts of the last five decades. Radical changes in the development of Slovak art in the mid-1960s, new non-iconic attitudes, new codes and media are depicted here against complex political and social background before and after 1989.

Artists: Marko Blažo, Cyril Blažo /Martin Kochan, Petra Feriancová, Stano Filko, Viktor Frešo, Aneta Mona Chisa /Lucia Tkáčová, Jozef Jankovič, Július Koller, Marek Kvetan, Denisa Lehocká, Roman Ondák, Boris Ondreička, Pavla Sceranková, Rudolf Sikora, Dezider Tóth, Jaro Varga, Ján Vasilko, group XYZ

Image: Igor Grubić, "Monument - work in progress", 2015, film still, Courtesy of the artist

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Exhibition Vernissage: 20.02.15 (Friday), 6:00 PM, level V (Aviaries), free admission

MWW, pl. Strzegomski 2a, 53-681 Wrocław, Poland
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