We are announcing recruitment to participate in the Foksal Gallery internet project #LasRzeczy. We invite artists from various fields who will present proposals for works or activities – one-off or cyclical – in the virtual space, on the website: https://galeriafoksal.pl/las-rzeczy/
Project assumption is to grow heterogeneously and gradually change and searching for such forms that will work in virtual space. The navigation tool here is a cloud of tags with which the works are marked, but you do not need to rely only on those already existing, this collection may grow.
Interested artists, please send:
– a short project proposal
– short bio
– and presentation of previous works (portfolio / website / instagram)
From among the submitted applications, we will select people with whom we will talk about the proposed project, in order to finally select 9 people who will receive a fee of PLN 1,000.
Deadline for submitting applications: March 8, 2021
Please send all questions, doubts and applications to: m.stolpiec@mik.waw.pl
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Eksibition runs: 5.02. – 26.03.2021
Curators: Katarzyna Krysiak, Przemysław Strożek
Partner: ZAiKS
Paweł Książek’s Plates is a series of works which allude to the illustrative-cum-informational plates used in encyclopaedias, dictionaries and the natural history textbooks that became popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as incontrovertible compendiums of knowledge. They are intended to bring out surprising and revealing connections not only between individual events, works of art and the biographies of artists, filmmakers and musicians, but also in a wider aspect, between, scholarship, biology, philosophy and anthropology and, at the formal level, between the shapes, colours, and lines of sketches and scores.
Based on facts drawn from those works, all the episodic stories in Plates fall into cohesive narratives, while the numbering need not always organised from first to last. There is neither chronology here nor a chain of cause and effect. At the formal level, grounded in montage, and at the semantic level, rooted in the exploration of episodic events, they point to an open-ended practice of creating a sequence of alternative interpretations in the sphere of cultural history, where every phenomenon and every concept has a relationship, often hidden. Because the plates do not constitute a closed formula, they can be developed in any direction with no real end.
The problems broached by the Plates series are focused on a great many diverse matters from which we need to single out the primary questions of the artist’s role as a historiographer, an art historian and a (post)scholar. Can a detective-like and factual stance in a scholar-artist analysing a work of art by asking questions and carrying out individual, exploratory searches for connections between paintings and scholarly texts, have an influence on the history of art and, at the same time, on new and refreshing perceptions of artistic phenomena rendered commonplace in that history? Can the schematisation of scholarly works be broken and a new concept for scholarship indicated? Can an art historian base their studies on interpretations formulated by artists? Can an art historian themself improvise ? Can art, in the end, give rise to changes in the field of art history itself?
The exhibition is composed of 25 drawings from the Plates series, and it is accompanied by an artbook, designed by the artists, in limited edition.
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