CAŁA PRAWDA O GRUPIE ŁADNIE (The whole truth about Ładnie Group)

Posted on May 17, 2013 by United Creativity

CAŁA PRAWDA O GRUPIE ŁADNIE (The whole throuth about Ładnie Group) is a one evening event showing original footage from first exhibitions of  Wilhelm Sasnal (1999), Marcin Maciejowski (2000, 2001), Rafał Bujnowski (2000) and a premiere add-on „Grzech Pierworodny” by Alicja Żebrowskia (1994). The event is organised by Galeria Zderzak and it’s part of the Night of Museums Krakow 2013.

Galeria Zderzak, 3 Floriańska St.

Friday 17th May 8pm- 12:05 am.

Galeria Zderzak

RECOMMENDED BY … at Eyes On – Month of Photography Vienna

Posted on November 30, 2012 by United Creativity / No comments

Once again, the month of November in Vienna was all about the art of photography. The fifth edition of Eyes On—Month of Photography Vienna was launched on October 29th with the simultaneous openings of the exhibition “distURBANces” at MUSA and “Wolfgang Freitag: Vienna’s Places in the Shadow” at the Wienbibliothek im Rathaus. All in all, more than 225 exhibitions and events revolving around photography were held this November as part of  Eyes On. With shows at major museums and galleries as well as off spaces and alternative exhibition venues, Eyes On reflects the entire spectrum of artistic photography, from classical portraiture to abstract photography.

 “The Eyes On photography festival is growing bigger with every edition, and we clearly feel that the interest on the part of institutions, artists, and audiences is rising. We are highly motivated to bolster Vienna’s appeal as a capital of photography in the future and keep developing the festival in new ways,” Thomas Licek, managing director of Eyes On, notes with evident delight.

Exhibitions such as “wien.berlin” by Natalie Opocensky and Thorsten Strasas, “Junij in June,” with work by Slovenian artists’ collective Grupa Junij, and the Luxemburg-born photographer Yvon Lambert’s “Solid Ground” foster the exchange of ideas between artists representing the EMoP partner cities and their Austrian colleagues.

We were particulary interested to see the RECOMMENDED BY … Current tendencies on the Polish photography and video scene at the Fotogalerie Wien. Curated by Krzysztof Candrowicz and Jakub Śwircz the exhibition presents work from fourteen Polish artists. It is the fruit of a collaboration between Eyes On management and Polish galleries, institutions and curators. The aim was to prove that the “the Polish photography scene is booming”.

 

“The past two decades in Poland have been a period of dramatic change: the economic and political transformation has affected many aspects of everyday life—yet fundamental cultural attitudes and what we call “the spirit,” “the soul,” have remained untouched. Unlike Polish cinema and graphic design, the country’s photography used to draw very little international attention. Today, by contrast, Polish photography artists show their work in prominent museums and galleries, and there are major photography festivals such as Cracow’s Photomonth and the Fotofestiwal in Łódź. Some of the most talented and up-and-coming Polish photography artists are presented in the exhibition “Recommended by …” at Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna.” – says Krzysztof Candrowicz

The exhibition is open until the 7th of December and it’s really worth stopping by.

FOTOGALERIE WIEN
WUK, Währinger Straße 59
1090 Wien

http://www.fotogalerie-wien.at/

Source: Eyes On

Sport in Art exhibition at MOCAK

Posted on September 9, 2012 by United Creativity / No comments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sport in Art at Mocak, museum of contemporary art in Krakow, honours sport in it’s ability to therapise, amuse and empower those that choose to participate in it. The exhibition examines diverse themes shown in a variety of mediums; photography, sculpture, video installation, and classical painting.

“Sport performs a terrific therapeutic role, relieving us of layers of animal aggression. Mankind has hit on a great idea: how to fight and triumph, without causing any real harm.” – MOCAK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artist, Slowomir Rumiak believes that we need sport to expel ‘bad energy’:

“For me it is plain and obvious that this is precisely what we do in art and in sport. I have always been convinced that, had I not got involved with art I would have been a very dangerous ma.n”

Rumiak’s black and white video installation Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen stages a violent American football game. The film shows a close-up of an exaggerated moment of  aggression which is punctuated by explicit language. Rumiak’s work sees sport as a brutal experience that must be diffused before we can return to society.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kamil Kuskowski sees sport as a battleground. His minimalist photographs show close-ups of a football pitch overlayed with text. He writes the location, fixture, time and score of a particular game. Each photograph describes a match as a significant historical moment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whilst the exhibition asks us to take sport seriously, we are also faced with the absurdity of the behaviour of sportsmen. Ingebourg Luscher admits that she wasn’t interested in football but when she heard a game by accident, she was drawn to the exaggerated gestures of the players. Her video installation, Fusion stages a match in which footballers wear suits. She aims to show that men’s everyday lives are at odds with the absurdity of their celebrations during a game.

The diverse themes that are presented at this exhibition perfectly describes our continuing  fascination with sport. The artworks themselves are interactive without physically engaging us, showing that we can all connect with sport in some way. The exhibition sacrifices the glamour and excitement of the television spectacle in favour of how sport can teach us to better understand ourselves.

The exhibition will be open until the 19th of September 2012.

Sources: Motyle Ksiazkow, MOCAK website, The Flaneur blog

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Great photographers – Edward Hartwig

Posted on August 22, 2012 by United Creativity / No comments

Edward Hartwig was born 1909 in Moscow, where his father had his photographic studio. When Poland regained its sovereignty in 1918 Hartwig’s family moved to Lublin.

First in the 20s, inspired by Jan Bulhak, Edward Hartwig was mostly photographing landscapes in a mysterious and romantic way. It is easy to see his interest in paintings and the connection to Misonne’s romantic impressionism. This gave him a fame of a ”photographer of mists” and a photographer-impressionist.

Later as a student of professor Rudolf Kopitz at the Vienna Institute of Graphics  young Hartwig, encouraged by having access to the latest photographic equipment, materials and modern technology, started to use new technique and new forms.  Kopitz’s school proclaimed the association of photography and graphic art, which for Hartwig was a way to combine his passion – art with a necessary working toll- photography. From now on his workshop included experiments in the darkroom: over-exposure, double exposure, manipulations with the optics and light, the employment of mirrors. The time he spent in Vienna was a milestone in his artistic biography. It finally shaped his artistic attitude and views.

Further stages of his work involved combining graphics with realistic photography and since the 70s experiments with colour and abstract photography. That is when he created series of colourful, nearly abstract compositions, representations of city landscape details.

Critics usually stress the artist’s universality, a significant place that he occupies in the history of Polish photography and a deep influence he has been for a few generations of photographers. One of the world’s most famous Polish photographers, considered a versatile artist, combining photography and graphic work, equally fascinated by the landscape and man, theatrical photography, architecture and detail.

Edward Hartwig died in Warsaw in 2003 leaving such beautiful albums as “Photography”, “My earth” and “Photographic Variations”.

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Source: Wikipedia, “Edward Hartwig” by Barbara Kosińska
Photography by Edward Hartwig

Thomas Bayrle in Poland

Posted on August 21, 2012 by United Creativity / No comments

Centre of Contemporary Art(CoCA) in Torun organizes in cooperation with MMK- Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt a fantastic exhibition of Thomas Bayrle’s work. Curated by Dobrila Denegri exhibition called “Superstruktury” (Superstructures) will be shown in Torun from 5th October to 30 December 2012.

Thomas Bayrle can be considered as one of the most significant German artists, a representative of a European critical response to the American Pop-Art and the father of German Pop- Art. Since 60’ Bayrle has been creating manually and through the use of the modest means, such as drawing and collage, complex visual and graphic patterns denominated “Superstructures”: images of strong, almost hypnotic and dizzying visual impact which he constructed through the process of obsessive repetition of motives taken from the popular and commercial visual vocabulary.

The artist addresses in his work such important characteristics of the contemporary world as overproduction, overconsumption, overpollution, overpopulation and overexploitation. He does it with humour, but also showing deep involvement in political and social problematic.

In CoCA Torun will be presented selection of prints from early ‘70s till the most recent ones, together with some of the early animated films and installations with PVC “raincoats”, as well as a new and especially realised work for this occasion.

In concomitance and in dialogue with Thomas’s work will be presented series of art-documentaries that Helke Bayrle, his wife, has been doing over the years. Helke Bayre was born in 1941 in Torun and emigrated to Germany during World War II. She lives and works in Frankfurt. Her work consists of art documentary films and many interviews with famous artists.

Struktury
Centre of Contemporary Art(CoCA) in Torun
5 October- 30 December 2012

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Source: CoCA website
Photos: Air de Paris  and Deutsche Bank Art Works

Gum print- where the classic photography meets painting and drawing

Posted on August 14, 2012 by United Creativity / No comments

Gum Bichromate photography is a rare 19th century hand-made process, once replaced and almost forgotten during the evolution of photography. It allows to make photographic reproductions without the use of silver halides, usingsalts of bichromate together with a number of other related processes such as sun printing. It gives the photographer a freedom to print with any desired color and tonal values. You can say it almost combines classic photography with painting or drawing.

Katarzyna Niedzwiecka, a gradute from Cracow School of Art and Fashion Design (www.ksa.edu.pl), specialized in this old process. Her series “An animal called human” is a perfect example of combining digital photomontage with gum print. The resulting images blur the boundary between painting and photography. More of her work can be seen online in the United Creativity gallery.

 

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Marilyn Monroe in Warsaw

Posted on July 20, 2012 by United Creativity / No comments

A unique collection of Marilyn Monroe photos will be show in Warsaw. The opening of the exhibition is planned for 8th August 2012 and the exhibition itself will last until 6th of September. All photos will be put on auction later this year. The prizes may vary between 1$ and minimum 5.ooo$, so everyone can start collecting J. Should it be for investment or just for a visual pleasure, the exhibition is definitely worth seeing, as there will be plenty of photographs never exhibited before. More info here. You can see more photos here.