{"id":16233,"date":"2022-07-15T18:21:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T16:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ggm.spinacz.com\/?p=16233"},"modified":"2024-07-18T10:38:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T08:38:52","slug":"anna-orlowska-flatlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/16233\/anna-orlowska-flatlets\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Or\u0142owska \u201cFlatlets\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Date: <\/strong>25 September \u2013 21 November 2020
Venue:\u00a0<\/strong>GGM1, ul. Piwna 27\/29
Curator: <\/strong>Gabriela Warzycka-Tutak
Spatial design: <\/strong>STUDIO OTAMTO
Visual identification: <\/strong>Kaja Gliwa<\/p>

Anna Or\u0142owska Flatlets, text: Ma\u0142gorzata Weso\u0142owska<\/a><\/span><\/p>

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Those who have visited a burgher house in Gda\u0144sk\u2019s Main City are probably no strangers to its multi-storey layer cake chaos. Covered on the outside with an icing made of paintings and stonework decoration, the interior of the building hides uneven layers of walls cemented with plaster resembling confectioner\u2019s custard. The corridors and staircases suddenly lose their continuity intersected by a few steps. The bends and windows face an unexpected side of the building, ruining the logic of the route from the hall to a room or from one floor to another. The rooms seem too big or too small for their designated functions. The air circulation may be too dynamic or too slow. The temperature and humidity inside are completely unlike what we expect judging from the thick, solid walls.<\/p>

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Kazimierz Lelewicz\u2019s famous photographs of the Main City in ruins after the end of World War II explains this spatial and construction material hotchpotch. The area was reconstructed on the basis of the remnants of pre-war walls, basements and traffic routes. Missing structural elements were often supplemented using reinforced concrete, with preserved decoration fragments pasted therein. Efforts were made to improve the functionality of old burgher houses according to the doctrine of modern ergonomics. Steel handrails were added in some places, while in others a dark basement was given extra light. The mock-up effect was not feared and the decisions made during the post-war reconstruction were brought into relief.<\/p>

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The Uphagen House in ul. D\u0142uga 12 is one of such layer cakes, created anew during the rebuilding of the Main City between 1946 and 1953. Only a tiny part of the building\u2019s fabric is original, while the majority results from the reconstruction supervised by heritage conservators. Partly preserved interior decoration elements, which survived in the conservator\u2019s storehouse in Gda\u0144sk Oliwa, were used in the process.<\/p>

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The interior details and elements have been portrayed by Anna Or\u0142owska in her photographs. Sensing the organoleptic and formal inconsistencies between the \u201cold\u201d and the \u201cnew\u201d, the artist divided the house into the eponymous flatlets \u2013 autonomous spaces. Framed in wood veneer, her photographs depict their individual completeness.<\/p>

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Paradoxically, it was not the mock-up of the building with marked original and added areas that offered evidence of the inconsistency and autonomy of the elements from which the Gda\u0144sk burgher house was assembled. This evidence should be looked for in close-ups, in the analytical perspective on details, in photographs that highlight the structure of upholstery or traces of brush strokes on a plaster ornament, like in a historic preservation laboratory. The new function of the space, used today as a museum, a tourist attraction, unites and justifies all the tricks \u2013 not always fair \u2013 used in the rebuilding process.<\/p>

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A supplement to the exhibition comes in the form of cases for storing various objects. The only formal extravagance which their old-time artisanal makers indulged in are luxury and costly materials: leather, velvet, amber, sepiolite, silver, satin, brass, tortoiseshell, mother of pearl. Reflecting almost ideally the shape of the stored and enveloped object, without superfluous decoration made de rigueur by modern-day design, these cases resemble casting moulds imitating castings made of durable materials. Displayed in the museum today as outdated and not quite functional \u201cflatlets for things\u201d, they seem superfluous and somewhat eccentric. Is it really so?<\/p>

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Let us think about boxes, mouldings, foils of various sizes filled with air, wire wrappings, stretchy materials, intricately curved pieces of grey cardboard and lacquered paper. About the containers and cases in which we receive \u2013 recently in an ever greater number \u2013 the diligently packed objects and trinkets, with separately wrapped accessories.<\/p>

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Each of them is an individual artwork. The difference between them and historic objects in terms of material and style is the same as between the rococo apartment of Johann Uphagen\u2019s family and servants and the materials used in its reconstruction as well as the somewhat theme-park-like function of the place today.<\/p>

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Anna Or\u0142owska<\/p>

Graduate in photography from the Film School in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a (2011) and the Institute of Creative Photography at the Silesian University in Opava (2013). Holder of the Photo Global scholarship at the School of Visual Arts in New York (2013). Her works have been presented at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Exile Gallery in Berlin, Panoptikon Gallery in Stockholm, International Festival of Fashion and Photography in Hy\u00e8res (FR), Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Elys\u00e9e (CH), Aperture Foundation (USA), Fundaci\u00f3 Joan Mir\u00f3 (E), among other venues and events. Scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2010, 2013, 2017, 2020). Nominated for the Discovery award at the festival Les Rencontres d\u2019Arles 2015 (FR). Honoured with the Overseas Photographer Award at the Higashikawa International Photography Festival in 2017.<\/p>

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We would like to thank Andrzej Zagrobelny, Klaudiusz Grabowski, Ma\u0142gorzata Weso\u0142owska, Andrzej Stelmasiewicz, Leszek W\u0105s, Muzeum Miasta Gdyni, Sopocki Dom Aukcyjny, Zak\u0142ad Stolarski Andrzej Taranko, WoodX.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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