Ewa Bloom-Kwiatkowska
BOOK OF CHRONICLES
19.02 - 05.03.2010
Ewa Bloom’s display includes two painting cycles: Ideas and Masks and Book of Chronicles. They were produced between 2005 and 2009. The paintings represent scenes and motifs connected with war and terror: soldiers, prisoners in cells, bombers covering the sky. However, more important than the subject matter is an original artistic strategy which Ewa Bloom put in practice. She copied photographs taken from the television screen on canvas. Titles of the paintings are testimonies to this action - some of them include the reference numbers of photographs, which are represented. Moreover, the artist refers to esthetics of television broadcast. Majority of the paintings seem to emit a bluish persistence typical of TV screen. In consequence, techniques of visual manipulation appear as a proper subject of the artworks. The artist wonders how visual commentary influences emotions, opinions and historical awareness.
Ewa Bloom - Kwiatkowska
The artist graduated from The Academy of Fine Art in Łódź, where she currently works as a lecturer. She prepared diploma in 1984, in the Department of Tapestry and Garment. She is a painter, stage designer, author of installations. She designed the sets for over 50 plays, haut-couture garment, multimedia shows. In 1989 she destroyed all her paintings and sculptures during a performance The sky over the city. The paintings displayed in Wozownia are her only artworks. Her paintings, drawings, painting and sculpture constructions, as well as stage design projects, were shown in France, Germany, the United States and Great Britain at collective and individual exhibitions of art of the 1980s and 1990s.
Piotr Florianowicz
RE-WRAPPING
05.02.2010 - 21.02.2010
Curator: Małgorzata Jankowska
Piotr Florianowicz discovers in his artworks accidental, fugitive moments of everyday life.
The project RE-WRAPPING includes video-installation, sound and smell. All these elements are connected with baby’s appearing in the world. It describes a process of learning to be father. The installation introduces a spectator to the artist’s private space. Recording of cleaning, washing, re-wrapping, feeding shows an effort, which have to be made to arrange relationship with the baby. Moreover, it shows how feelings change in new situation. The artist said, that he wanted in RE-WRAPPING to capture emotions.
Piotr Florianowicz
In 2008 he graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University (art education, graphic art). He has been preparing a doctoral thesis in the parent department. He makes drawings, graphics and video installations.
Artur Nacht-Samborski
Memory of Motif
08.01.2010-29.01.2010
The exhibition includes Nacht-Samborski’s works placed on deposit in The National Museum in Poznań. Its purpose was displaying the key motifs in Samborski’s painting. The artist introduced into the area of his artistic interests only few motifs: still life, portrait, landscape and nu. The most noted are Samborski’s still lives with fig plant in the pot, placed on small table or stool. Chosen objects were elaborated many times in following paintings with significant modification of colors, texture and composition. Work in series is an evidence
of constant search the exact translations of real visual structures to the synthetic pictorial language. The exhibition shows that Samborski’s painting is not only part of historic artistic movement named “colorisme”. Focusing an attention on the issue of relation between
the painting and observed by the artist reality allows to perceive actuality and originality
of this art.
Artur Nacht-Samborski
The artist was born in 1896 in Kraków. In 1917 he started his studies in Academy Of Fine Art in Kraków. His lecturers were then foremost painters of polish modernism: Józef Mehofer
and Wojciech Wiess. In 1920 he went away for Berlin, where he got to know avant-garde movements: contructivism, dadaism, expressionism. After coming back to Kraków he joined the group of students called “Paris Committee” and departed with them and their professor Józef Pankiewicz for Paris. Individual studies on French impressionism and postimpressionism seriously impacted his artistic development. After Second World War he became a professor in Academies of Fine Art in Gdańsk and Warsaw. He used to take part only in group exhibitions. His first individual display was organized after his dead in 1974.
Tomasz Barczyk
Squadniki
15.01 – 31.01.2010
Tomasz Barczyk’s graphic cycle Squadniki has been produced for 4 years. The cycle includes woodcuts and lithographs. In every graphic appears a female nude, like in almost all Barczyk’s works. One of the issues located in the center of artist’s interests is composition. In Squadniki he has been studying a problem of disposal of the body on the rectangular field of stencil/paper. In his previous cycle Erotina, produced since 2003 until 2005, fragmentarily represented bodies cross a rectangular area horizontally, vertically or slantwise, while in Squadniki they often touch its border. They are more tightly fitted to the shape of medium. Recent graphic cycle signalizes changes in Barczyk’s artistic work. Instead of springy, delicate figures he created hieratic and simplified or primitively expressive forms.
The artist’s purpose was liberation of graphic art from esthetic requirements
and making it closer to everyday life.
Tomasz Barczyk
Born in 1975 in Chełmno. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. He prepared his diploma in prof. Józef Słabosz’s atelier in 2001. Since 2002 he has been working at the parent university. Ph.D in domain of graphic arts. Artist uses for the most part traditional graphic techniques, but he also paints.
Karolina Freino
INTERCITY
11.12.2009 - 10.01.2010
Karolina Freino's exhibition presents materials gathered throughout last few years of the artist's activity - video documentation, photos, objects-props left over from singular, site-specific actions that were realized in public spaces of cities in various parts of Europe.
For the first time, a group of independent, closed projects, created as the commentary to
a certain place, has been collated within one, common presentation. The structure of the exhibition is characterized by a flexible narration composed on viewer's individual "itinerary", based on own, chosen order. That is so because "Intercity" has been thought not as much
as the exposition (display of a collection of works) but as an illustration of defined artistic strategy – reflective-critical flaneurism, in its primary, 19th century form, not loaded yet
with a consumerism label, expended only in a sense of a scale: from city to continental.
Agnieszka Gryska
Karolina Freino. Born in 1978 in Poland. Studied at The Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław [sculpture], Edinburgh College of Art [School of Sculpture] and The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar [MFA “Public Art & New Artistic Strategies”]. Since 2007 the assistant lecturer at
The Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. Since 2006 collaborates together with Dušica Dražić [SRB], Sam Hopkins [UK/KEN] and Teresa Luzio [P] as ‘usually4′. Solo and group
exhibitions in Poland and across Europe. Active in the fields of sculpture, installation, intervention, performance, drawing, photography, video and sound. Often uses interactivity and intimacy in her artworks; from active dialogue to internal monologue. Works in public spaces, galleries and at home.
Opening of the exhibition: 11th of December, 6 p.m.
WOZOWNIA Art Gallery
Ul. Ducha Św. 6, Toruń
Andrzej Syska
Three colors
27.11.2009 – 30.12.2009
Exhibition opening: 27.11, at 5 pm
Andrzej Syska was born in Lublin in 1961. He graduated from PWSSP (School of Fine Arts)
in Poznań in 1985. He started his artistic career in eighties as a member of a conceptual group O’PA. At that time he analyzed geometrical structures in painting. Since nineties in the center of his interest has been the installation art. The artist in most of his works uses light. On the one hand fluorescent lamps are physically relevant fragments of constructions, but on the other their luminosity deforms and disfigures things and surrounding. In Syska’s art light is essential – it initiates, inter alia, reflection about diversity of material existence of things. Characteristic of his installations is also interactivity and temporality. Temperature and movement sensors, which have been included to the works, imply participation of a viewer and provoke casual events. The artist is preparing for Wozownia Art Gallery a multimedia installation inspired by RGB technology.
Anna Tyczyńska
Melancholia
13.11.2009 – 6.12.2009
Exhibition opening: 13.11.2009, 18.00
Tyczyńska’s artistic interests are focused on the installation art. In nineties she was executing minimal constructions, using glass, water, metal plates, fabrics, cotton wool. Essential feature of these works is a tension between transparent but durable forms and soft, prone to transformation elements. Phenomenology of this tension seems to be a subject
of Tyczyńska’s inquiry. Since 2000 formal researches have been connected with artistic codification of emotional experience of reality. Then women’s feelings have become
the artist’s inspiration.
Melacholia is a continuation of the project Thin, blue line presented in Bałtycka Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej in Ustka (October 2009). Tyczyńska called these shows “twin expositions”.
In both works the artist brought up a subject of emotional states connected with melancholia, depression, being on the border. However, these works are not reserved analyzes
of emotional states. They rather make a viewer feel disturbed and unsafe himself.
Flickering, fluorescent lamps and films representing crying people create distorted, unpredictable reality which strongly affects viewer’s emotions.
ANNA TYCZYŃSKA
Anna Tyczyńska was born in 1964 in Warsaw. In 1990 she graduated the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. She prepared her diploma in prof. Jerzy Kałucki’s and prof. Wojciech Muller’s atelier. Since 2002 she has been one of managers of the ON Gallery in Poznań.
She lives and works in Sady near Poznań.
www.tyczynska.free.art.pl
Ania Kopaczewska
JOB FOR LADIES
13.10. - 08.11.2009
exhibition opening 13.10. at 6 pm
curated by: Dorota Łagodzka
Drawings from series Polish crumpets, consisting of two smaller series London Calling and Naked chicks refer to the subject of prostitution. London Calling is a series of overdrawn leaflets found on the streets of London and Amsterdam, advertising sex service or encouraging women to become prostitutes. Naked chicks are drawings based on photos of prostitutes from internet website for the Polish communities abroad. The curator of the exhibition tries to emphasis the feministic aspects of those works. The starting point is looking at prostitution as a phenomenon being a result of patriarchal social system. The serie’s title refer to oppressive way the language functions in patriarchal culture.
The exhibition is held within Ladyfest feminist festival.
Ania Kopaczewska
Born in 1983 in Knurów. Graduate of graphic design at the Acadamy of Fine Arts in Katowice – diploma work in new media, promoted by prof. M. Oslislo. In 2006 studied in Ecole Regionale de Beaux Arts w Saint-Etienne, France. Works on the fields of graphic design, typography, participant of following projects: Video.fm (Polish Radio Katowice and Academy of Fine Arts' students), Trust Me (Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice and Bauhaus-Universitaet, Weimar), Andrzej Prusek comes back (Rondo Sztuki)
Participant of collective exhibitions:
C.O.A.L. (Katowice, Dortmund, Lille), Evocation of Space (former coalmine in Katowice), Paraneue (Katowice, Bytom, Koeln). Her diploma work „Air monitoring” met great interest of Upper Silesia's inhabitants, it is currently exhibited in the Department of the Environment in Warsaw.
For more information visit:
www.wozownia.pl
http://ladyfestorun.prv.pl/
4! Four Factorial
Hazard
17.10.2009 – 08.10.2009 (opening 16.10.2009, at 6 pm)
The group 4! was founded in 2004 in Poznań by Michal Grochowiak, Marcin Gwiazdowski and Jakub Jasiukiewicz. Pawel Dziemian joined to the group in 2007. 4!'s practice focuses on the area of video art, but certain works balance on the border of film and classical painting. Artists attempt to redefine notions which are deeply rooted in the social consciousness.
Hazard Cycle has been realized since 2007. Six images have been produced until now: Tent, Ball, Axe, Noise, Suitcase and In the Forest. Altogether, they build a multi-channel, interconnected video installation. Their soundtracks fill the space, overlap and complete each other. This project’s main issue is a risk, which is inherent part of our everyday activity. Every decision is connected with hope for success but also with a threat of fiasco. Sequences of causes and effects of our doings are impenetrable.
Danuta Ciechanowska
One
17.10.2009 – 08.10.2009 (opening 16.10.2009, at 6 pm)
Danuta Ciechanowska (born in 1965 in Toruń) is graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. She has been a member of the Association of Polish Artist and Designers since 1991. The artist presents in Wozownia chosen paintings from three cycles: One, People with heads, Symbolony. The exposition includes only figurative paintings. The artist claims that typical of these works is profound concentration on human being. But in Ciechanowska’s art issue of form is equally important: she is permanently interested in forming paintings’ space, testing juxtapositions of colors and analyzing light effects.
Ewa Aksienionek, Jacek Doroszenko
Estetyczny Interfejs Pamięci
Kuratorka: Magdalena Furmanik
16.10.2009 – 08.11.2009 (opening 16.10.2009, at 6 pm)
“Ewa Aksienionek’s and Jacek Doroszenko’s project consists of two differently represented histories, two distinct pieces of art, which are however interrelated and enter into dialogue.”
– claims a curator of the exhibition. Aksienionek presents a photographic cycle entitled Rememberances. The artist sank in the water random pictures and then she took photographs of them. Their visual transformation under moving liquid figuratively represents a mechanism of making memories. Doroszenko, in turn, displays interactive animation Steelworks as aesthetic interface of memory. It includes photographs of old steelworks
in Chorzów. Possibility of moving fragments of the building enables a viewer to create new constructions, but it also allows to keep in memory the old one. Doroszenko’s project illustrates working of imagination, shows that new images are always rooted in forms
seen before. Both artists analyze a process of transforming images in memory.
6th International Graphic Triennial COLOR IN GRAPHIC ART
Indentity and tradition
11. 09. - 11. 10. 2009
Curator: Mirosław Pawłowski
Since the very beginning, i.e. since the first all-Poland shows in 1980s, the Toruń Graphic
Arts Triennial has been oriented at problem rather than general exhibitions. When it originated the issue of color and its functioning in graphic arts constituted such a problem. Nowadays, almost 30 years later, this issue is not so intriguing any more. The use of color
in an expressive, narrative, local, accentuating or any other way stopped being so essential. That is why in 2006 the organizers decided to problematize the character of the event more intensely, preserving the traditional form of the triennial with personal invitations to participate in it.
This year’s edition, subtitled Identity and Tradition that seems quite provocative in the postmodern era, will be devoted to the problems of recognizing tradition and creating
a sense of identity, to some questions concerning the meaning of these notions today
and thoughts about our necessity to choose between a global village and a backwater
– do we really need to make this choice? So much for the contexts of art. As regards technical issues we will try to think about the ways today’s artists use/continue/oppose
to very rich graphic-arts tradition in their works.
It is true that new techniques replace the old ones, and it is natural. The pace of these changes is hardly possible to control! Holograms or three-dimensional prints have become our reality and future. Could this situation cause the disappearance of old classical techniques, such as wood engraving, metal techniques, lithography or – relatively new – serigraphy? Not necessarily. Digital techniques – we are pretty sure about it – have
in a sense absorbed certain possibilities of other graphic-arts techniques, but the latter
have not been eliminated. The situation is similar as regards photography or computer painting – digital techniques have absorbed their potential “artistic” dimension.
The future of graphic arts is COEXISTENCE – in all the fields they function in. Without
the division into traditional and digital graphics. To us the crucial thing is an idea being
a subject of every artistic creation, since each artist’s goal always remains the same
– to leave his or her mark on the artistic world.
The open scientific conference concerning the above-mentioned problems, organized
by Dr. Sebastian Dudzik, constitutes the theoretical part of the event. Anna Jackowska
Director of the Wozownia Gallery in Toruń
Mirosław Pawłowski
Curator of the 6th International Graphic Arts Triennial entitled Color in Graphic Arts.
Identity and Tradition
Anka Mierzejewska
NO – because I said so
08.08.2009-30.08.2009
Opening: Friday 07.08.2009, 18.00
The exposition consists of three Anka Mierzejewska’s painting cycles: Name, Disappearing Money and NO – because I said so. The cycles were painted during last three years. Juggling with traditional motifs and stylistics connects Mierzejewska’a art with Polish transavangarde movements of 80’. Almost all the works can be interpreted as a reflection on painting itself and on its mechanisms of evaluation. In the paintings presented in Wozownia it is the second topic that outweighs, Mierzejewska analyses evaluation categories of evaluation
of contemporary art. In the cycle Name she pointed at authorship as the most important category from the art market’s point of view. No – because I said so is a kind of painted diary in which the artist cites or coments on her client’s statements. She shows up a drollery [lepiej: makes fun] of their expectations as some clients want to buy paintings with calm
and nice colours which match their wallpaper while others claim that price should depend
on quantity of paint on canvas. The last cycle, Disappearing money, consists of imitations
of banknotes painted with substance which will soon disappear. These works are embodiments of vanitas motif, based on contemporary iconography.
Jan Misiek
Time assembling
08.08.2009 – 30.08.2009
Opening: 07.08.2009, 18.00
Exhibition of Jan Misiek’s collages. The artist was born in 1949 in Słupsk. In 1975
he graduated from National School of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. In his works Misiek uses old photographs, fabrics, newspaper scraps, old letters… On one hand he practices the artistic exploitation of disappearing meanings – the things in his collages were important parts
of someone’s life and it is still noticeable, even if their particular significances have
become unreadable. On other hand the old things have been incorporated into a new,
artistic structure of meanings. The artist claims that issues of colour, composition, texture
are starting points in his work. A subject matter appears later. Misiek’s works can be connected with Polish “matter painting” movement, although he is much younger than
its main representatives. The artist is interested in tactile qualities of objects and he
aims to create works which cross between painting and sculpture.
Art Laboratory. Project: Move the site- Quit the site
Curator: Maria Niemyjska
Magdalena Szmigiel-Taube
Such a History
08.08.2009 – 30.08.2009
Opening: Friday 07.08.2009, 18.00
Magdalena Szmigiel graduated from Fine Art Academy In Poznań (faculties: painting, art education). She is particularly interested in installation art and painting. Her installations are made of plaster, paper, cotton fabric and, at times, some floral elements. The artist creates visual situations which seem to be very fragile and impermanent. By the fragility of forms she aims to illustrate a feeling of hanging in the balance which appears in ordered and peaceful periods of live. The artist analyses a tension between what is rational and what is unpredictable. Magdalena Szmigiel’s exposition closes a cycle of presentations entitled Move the site-Quit the site. All artists taking part in the project brought up a problem of process in art and its ability to transgress a specific qualities of space.
Grzegorz Zygier
TWOONE and others photographs
Curator: Krzysztof Jurecki
3.07.2009 – 26.07.2009
Grzegorz Zygier was born in 1954 in Piotrków Trybunalski. The artist graduated from
Krakow Technical University. He has been working at Jagiellonian University Museum
as a photographer for over 20 years. His activities include photography, video and performance. From 1982 until 1987 he was closely connected with an artistic movement
“Kitty Culture”. Since 1987 Zygier is a member of the Union of Polish Art Photographers.
The artist in Wozownia Art Gallery displays a photographic cycle TWOONE. In these black
and white photographs he uses a double exposition, the technique that is very important
for the works’ matter. The artist fixes small scraps of everyday reality – chairs, tyres, stairs, architectural details, metallic parts of some mechanisms and fragments of plants. However, what is more important than simple representations of things is a overlapping of their images. The representations are subordinated to the logic of composition, based on geometrical order. “In those works author is looking for sense and clear forms, he fights
with chaos of reality (…) It is modernistic world without pastiche and quotation. It is technical world concerned with metal devices sometimes with nature but mostly rationalizing every aspect of reality” – claims Krzysztof Jurecki, a curator of the exhibition.
Art Laboratory. Project: Move the Site – Quit the Site
Curator: Maria Niemyjska
Maja Krupińska
FLUX
03.07.2009 - 26.07.2009
The artist is a graduate from the Faculty of Sculpture in Nicolaus Copernicus University
In Toruń. She practices an installation art. She is interested in relation between movement and space. She arranges the space making use of light, colours, moving forms and optical illusions. Movement creates optical effects, but also refers to human emotions connected
with time experiencing – dynamics of moving elements expresses passing of time,
duration and immediateness.
The installation presented in WOZOWNIA consists of reflection of moving water and small, papery ship. The artists created complex connections between immaterial reflection (projection) and material space and things – she consider the relationship between
what is optical and what is tactile, what is material and what is phenomenal.
All-Polish students drawing
05. 06. 2009 – 28. 05. 2009
The artist graduated from Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Faculty of Sculpture. She practices an installation art and is interested in relation between movement and space. She arranges the space with the use of light, colours, moving forms and optical illusions. Her installations shows that movement not only creates optical effects, but also refers to human emotions connected with time experience – dynamics of moving elements expresses passing of time, duration and immediateness.
The installation presented in WOZOWNIA consists of reflection of moving water and small paper ship. The artists created complex connections between immaterial reflection (projection) and material space and things in order to reconsider relationship between what is optical and what is tactile, what is material and what is phenomenal.
Georgia Krawiec
EXodus
22. 05. 2009 - 21. 06. 2009
EXodus is Georgia Krawiec’s latest photographic cycle. The artist graduated from the Faculty
of Photography at Siegen University (Germany). Krawiec makes use of analog photographic methods and pinhole photography. She takes advantage of extremely long exposure times and multiple exposures. Almost all the artist’s photographs are unique objects due to her experiments with atypical chemical treatments, or toning, of photosensitive material. In her works we can observe a certain testing of the medium– the artist questions the ability
of photography to create separate, unreal worlds.
EXodus is composed of fifty black-and-white pinhole pictures. In each photograph the artist's self portrait emerges from a dark, impenetrable background. The faces are deformed
in an expressive way and some of them are multiplied. The deformations are partly due
to photo-montage and to multiple exposures. The photographic cycle is inspired by Karen Karin Rosenberg’s drama She Taught Him How to Throw a Pie. The pictures are visual interpretations of epithets about the drama's heroine. Some works refer to the drama's keywords: unconscious, revelation, poetry. Given the subject-matter and the visual language, EXodus can be said to parallel surrealist photography. The title EXodus means,
in this case, a journey to unknown areas of the human mind.
Beata Ewa Białecka
ALBUM
curator: Marta Smolińska-Byczuk
05.05.2009 – 31.05.2009
Beata Ewa Białecka was born in 1966. She graduated from the Faculty of Painting
in the Fine Arts Academy in Kraków. The artist remains faithful to the stylistics she
elaborated after her studies. She practices figurative painting: hieratic, mostly female
figures are situated on a flat, monochromatic background. Some of them are stuck into
the cramped space. The paint, thinly applied on canvas, don’t mask outlines – paint spots are subordinated to the linear order. Białecka’s painting is saturated with references
to the different traditions of representation. The artist makes use of images of Madonna
with the Child, Biblical Eve, Saints and she modifies them to create her own narratives. “Białecka does not give any unequivocal answers – her pictorial idioms are formed on
the basis of (un)expected clashes of Christian iconography with certain elements of contemporary visual culture, and everything is additionally filtered through the stereotypes concerning women’s condition and status.” – points Marta Smolińska-Byczuk in the catalogue of the exhibition.
Xenophon Sachinis
Borders of graphics
24. 04. 2009 – 17. 04. 2009
The artist was born in Thessaloniki in 1954. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Athens (1973-1978) in the faculty of printmaking and stage design. From 1981 till 1985 he continued his studies at the E.N.S.B.A. in Paris in the faculty of painting. Currently he is
a professor of printmaking and a director of the Printmaking Workshop at the Fine Arts School in Thessaloniki University. In 1997 he funded with E. Giannadakis the Printmaking Center of Neapolis in Thessaloniki. Sachinis’ works are connected with theoretic reflection upon the specificity of printmaking. The artist not only looks for individual stylistics. Above all, he displays the process of making graphics and he modifies traditional technical principles. Key issue raised in his works is to increase the status of stencil, which has been regarded as menial in relation to the print. Sachinis in an installation entitled “Memory safes” exposes stencils into plexiglas cubes. The artist rejects printing – image on the stencil is transferred to the sheet of paper by light or it is multiplied by mirrors. Therefore in Sachnis’ works the identity of printmaking undergoes dynamic construction. Current exhibition
is a second Sachnis’ display in Poland.
Natalia Wiśniewska
SOMETIMES
24.04.2009 – 17.05.2009
Natalia Wiśniewska was born in 1986 roku in Toruń. Currently she is a student of painting at the Fine Arts Academy in Poznań. In Wozownia she displays a sound installation entitled SOMETIMES. It consists of five pendulum clocks hanging to the level of sitting person’s eyes. In front of them there is a chair. On the clocks faces instead of hours there are names of feelings. Clocks haven’t hands, only sounds of strikes point at passing time. Every mechanism has its own cycle. The installation brings up the issue of relation between experience of time and emotional states. The work points out, that hours, minutes and seconds indicated by the watch hands aren’t for human being neutral values. The idea of objective time, expressed in clock mechanism’s construction, is unattainable in human everyday life. Therefore, Wiśniewska’s work establishes some model of humanity. The clocks have been located in a cubic, white space, which reminds a sterile laboratory. Apparently it’s look like white cube, but in fact it’s too offensive for spectator to be perceived as neutral. It’s an experimental zone, where spectator undergoes an examination of his perception of time and its reference to his feelings.
PERSONA 2009
Koichi Sato
07. 04. 2009 - 28. 04. 2009
Koichi Sato was born in 1944. He graduated from the Tokyo National Fine Art and Music University – Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku in 1969. The artist belongs to the third generation
of the most important Japanese printmakers. This generation includes artists born between 1935 and 1945, who came out during the fifties and the sixties. Sato in his creation,
that includes a printmaking as well as a graphic art, is fascinated about relation between contemporary art and the artistic experience of past centuries. This striving to combine
the past and the present is characteristic of Japanese printmakers – Sato follows Kazumasa Nagai, Mitsuo Katsui czy Ikko Tanaki. Sato is particularly interested in issues of light, space and colour but these formal problems have a metaphysical connotation. Moreover, the artist writes poems. Verses of his haiku have appeared on some of his posters. The artist created the notion of “haiga”, which express his attempt to combine poems and images. The current exhibition is Sato’s second individual display in Poland.
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 About us The Wozownia art gallery is one of the oldest galleries in Poland – exists since 1950. Now it occupies the interesting, historical building in the oldest part of Toruń, near the Old Town Hall and the Copernicus House. Today Wozownia is the biggest exhibition gallery in Toruń, sponsored by the local government.
The gallery tries to show all aspects of art created today (c.a. 30 exhibitions a year). The gallery is not only an exhibition venue. Recently other forms of activity have been introduced to accompany traditional exhibitions. They comprise not only educational activities such as lectures on history of art or workshops for children. New media that have found their way into arts e.g. video, hypermedia, interactive arts, performance, para-theatrical activities naturally call for a modern manner of presentation.
There are author’s programmes realized:
Since 2000 PresentAkcje – presentation taking the form of shows & lectures on modern video art, multimedia, interactive art. Once a year there are Spotkania Pracowni (the Studio’s Meeting) organized within PresentAkcje. The Studio’s Meeting is an all-Polish project, however foreign artists also take part in it.
Since 2004 Projekt Wozownia. Laboratorium Sztuki (Wozownia Project. The Laboratory of Art) – solo exhibitions having ‘site specific’ character.
The curator of the above projects is Małgorzata Jankowska
Educational activities: lectures on history of art, workshops for children, lectures accompanying a exhibitions, competitions, plebiscite.
The gallery’s cyclic activities:
International Print Triennial „Colour in Graphic Art” – existing since 1981; a presentation of works of the greatest graphic artists from all over the world, the artists for whom colour has fundamental meaning. Artists taking part in triennial are invited personally/ by name.
Biennale of Small Size Painting – all-Polish competitive exhibition existing since 1988; its aim is to show most of what is happening in a nowadays painting art. The curator is Teresa Dudzińska.
PERSONA – an exhibition accompanying International Biennale of Poster in Warsaw; exists since 2002; the aim of PERSONA is to individually present the most important personalities of world poster art. The curator is Zdzisław Schubert.
Where to find us?
Wozownia Art Gallery is situated in the Old Town; it is within short distance from Old Town Market, right along Ducha Św. Street, to Klasztorna Gate.
You can catch a 22, 27, 14, 11 bus from the Railway Station Toruń Główny (2 bus stops).
 Art Gallery WOZOWNIA
The Art Gallery WOZOWNIA was founded in 1950. Since then WOZOWNIA have cooperated with other galleries, museums and artists; it is the largest exhibition gallery in Toruń. Being sponsored by the local government rather than by itself, the gallery has got the responsibility to present the latest developments in plastic art regardless of the individual tastes of the organizers. The program is focused on painting, graphic art, and photography. Exhibitions that are most important to this local gallery are individual and collective presentations of Polish artists organized in cooperation with the Fine Arts Department of Nicholas Copernicus University and the Regional Board of the Polish Artists and Designers’ Union in Toruń.
The Art Gallery WOZOWNIA is not only an exhibition venue. Recently other forms of activity have been introduced to accompany traditional exhibitions. They comprise educational activities, such as lectures on history of art, and since 1999 lectures on multi-media art or workshop for children and students (New Media Workshop).
New Media that have found their way into plastic arts, e.g. video, hypermedia and interactive arts, performance, installation and para-theatrical activities naturally call for new manner of presentation. If the gallery aims to attract a new generation of visitors it must follow new trends closely and present the recent developments in the best way possible. |
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