Ewa Partum
dal 20/11/2014 al 14/2/2015
Segnalato da
20/11/2014
Ewa Partum
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz
Nothing stops the idea of art. Works from public and private collections
The exhibition "Nothing stops the idea of art" took its title from the public space installation with which the guests entering the museum will be confronted. A speed bump, characteristic for residential streets, with the slogan painted next to it serves as an intriguing signal of the exhibition's message, tackling the problems of the sense of art and the way art functions in contemporary reality. Ewa Partum is a precursor of conceptual, feminist and critical art in Poland, an author of actions and installations in public space, a film maker, photographer, last but not least a performance and visual poetry artist. She studied at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Lodz (now Lodz Fine Arts Academy) and Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw. Her earliest conceptual work "Presence/Absence", created in 1965, while still a student, took up the problem of women's presence in progressive art environment. Curated by Maria Morzuch, the exhibition will present Ewa Partum's works from the collections of Muzeum Sztuki and the National Museum in Warsaw, as well as from several private collections, archives of Ewa Partum, the Signum Foundation (Poznan) and Osman Djajadisastra Collection (Aachen). Opening: 21 November 2014, Friday 6p.m.