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Theory & Practice
Warsaw Voice - Culture
31 March 2002
A review of works by Andrzej Pawłowski
(1925-1986), one of the most outstanding and versatile
contemporary Polish artists, opened March 1 at the BWA
Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice. Pawłowski, who
was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow,
as well as an intellectual and art theoretician, pursued
many fields of art-painting, sculpture, photography,
industrial form design and exhibition arrangements.
He was co-founder and member both of the Cracow Group,
one of the most important organizations in the history
of Polish postwar art, and the Association of Industrial
Form Designers. His most important works include Luxogramy
(Luxograms), Mutacje (Mutations), Omamy (Illusions),
Manekiny (Mannequins) and Sarkofagi (Sarcophagi).
His works are on display at the
Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice, 6 Korfantego Ave.,
through April 7.
A Grave Reminder
The BWA Bielska Gallery, 11, 3-ego
maja St., is hosting an exhibition entitled Życie codzienne
Żydów Bielska i Białej (The Everyday Lives of Jews from
Bielsko and Biała). It includes photos from the collection
of the local Jewish community and from private citizens.
The exhibition accompanies the promotion of Jacek Proszyk's
book Cmentarz żydowski w Bielsku-Białej (The Jewish
Cemetery in Bielsko-Biała) which describes the history
and characteristic features of the two famous Jewish
necropolises: on Cieszyńska Street in Bielsko and the
now nonexistent cemetery on Wyzwolenia Street in Biała.
The publication describes the meaning of tomb symbols
and Hebrew inscriptions.
A Decade of Photography
One of the most extensive presentations
of Polish photography from the 1990s is on display at
the Art Museum in Łódź, 36 Więckowskiego St., through
April 7. Prepared in cooperation with Wrocław's National
Museum and FF Gallery from the Łódź Culture Center,
the exhibition presents diverse areas of photography,
from classic forms (portrait, landscape) to reportage,
installations and digital images. The organizers wanted
to present the most intriguing artistic projects and
the most important photographic trends in Poland in
the last decade of the 20th century.
Over 40 artists were invited to
participate. The exhibition includes works by neo-avant-garde
artists (Zbigniew Dłubak and Natalia LL), the critical
trend (Zofia Kulik, Jerzy Truszkowski), "pure photography"
(Ewa Andrzejewska, Bogdan Konopka) and neo-pictorial
photography (Stanisław J. Woś).
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