LAZNIA 1 2011 - UNTOLD STORIES
28.01-31.03.2011
Curator: Gabriela Jarzębowska
Project presented within the framework of INCUBATOR programme.
Today, the work of art is but a more or less perfect description of the one which has not been constructed. What is essential in art is contained in mental space. The rest is just a record.
Seth Siegelaub
Untold stories belong to the conceptual idea of non-exhibition, where artistic facts are subject to dematerialization. It is a sound archive of art projects being discussed by artists themselves (or, as in case of late artists – by their friends or co-workers). These are all brave, visionary, and utopian ideas. They radically blur the line between life and art, but their range or conceptual character makes them basically un-realizable. Town planning visions of Jarosław Kozakiewicz, the idea of creating perfect artistic phalansteries of Grzegorz Sztwiertnia – these are only a couple of examples which prove that utopian thinking is continuously present in artistic activity, even if a deceitful or polemic undertone shifts the projects towards dystopia.
Project presented within the framework of INCUBATOR programme.
Today, the work of art is but a more or less perfect description of the one which has not been constructed. What is essential in art is contained in mental space. The rest is just a record.
Seth Siegelaub
Untold stories belong to the conceptual idea of non-exhibition, where artistic facts are subject to dematerialization. It is a sound archive of art projects being discussed by artists themselves (or, as in case of late artists – by their friends or co-workers). These are all brave, visionary, and utopian ideas. They radically blur the line between life and art, but their range or conceptual character makes them basically un-realizable. Town planning visions of Jarosław Kozakiewicz, the idea of creating perfect artistic phalansteries of Grzegorz Sztwiertnia – these are only a couple of examples which prove that utopian thinking is continuously present in artistic activity, even if a deceitful or polemic undertone shifts the projects towards dystopia.
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