{"id":26873,"date":"2017-04-25T12:08:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T10:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/?p=26873"},"modified":"2024-07-25T12:13:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T10:13:42","slug":"new-situations-the-tri-city-art-of-the-1980s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/26873\/new-situations-the-tri-city-art-of-the-1980s\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW SITUATIONS. THE TRI-CITY ART OF THE 1980s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Place:<\/strong> Gda\u0144sk City Gallery 2, Powro\u017anicza street 13\/15<\/p>

Exhibition:<\/strong> 21.04 -11.06.2017<\/p>

Opening:<\/strong> 21.04.2017, 7.30 PM<\/p>

Artists:<\/strong> Janusz Akermann, Andrzej Awsiej, Kuba Bryzgalski, J\u00f3zef Czerniawski, Borys Czernichowski, Roman Malarz Kobiet Grabowiecki, Katarzyna J\u00f3zefowicz, Piotr J\u00f3zefowicz, Joanna Kabala, Grzegorz Klaman, Kazimierz Kowalczyk, Kacper O\u0142owski, Jacek Piotrowski, Marek Rogulski, Jerzy Rymar, Jacek Staniszewski, Eugeniusz Szczud\u0142o i S\u0142awomir Witkowski<\/p>

Curator:<\/strong> Robert Jarosz<\/p>

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In the last decade of the People\u2019s Poland \u2013 a period that spans the birth of the \u201cSolidarity\u201d movement (1980) and the transformation of the country\u2019s political regime (1989\u20131990) \u2013 artists from the State Higher School of Visual Arts (PWSSP) in Gda\u0144sk and the surrounding area formed an autonomous \u201cthird circulation\u201d of art, which was equally independent from the official structures of the Communist state as well as from the political opposition and the Catholic church. The Tri-City artists became active between the two poles of the Polish realm, yet they were not escapees far-removed from the political reality: the dominant position of the Polish United Workers\u2019 Party (PZPR), censorship, state media, civic militia units, but they existed beside them, consciously annexing official institutions and venues to their practice.<\/p>

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At the beginning of the 1980s, a new generation emerged from the PWSSP (today\u2019s Academy of Fine Arts) in Gda\u0144sk that manifested an unrestrained and provocative approach to the heritage of the past; they were no strangers to irony and tapped into sharp and explicit political narratives.<\/p>

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Conceptual Art was supplanted by painting characterised by an expressionist gesture, which in Poland was termed \u201cnew expression\u201d or art of the \u201cnew wild.\u201d The first discipline at the PWSSP to react was graphic art, reached by the echoes of the New York street art scene. Janusz Akermann and S\u0142awomir Witkowski did away with the black and white dogma. Having opened lithography to colour, they met with opposition from the conservative part of academy professors. A revolution in sculpture was sparked by iconic human figures, brutally carved with an axe by Eugeniusz Szczud\u0142o and Grzegorz Klaman. Klaman and Kazimierz Kowalczyk soon went on to create dramatically topical works on the premises of the academy and beyond, whereas Szczud\u0142o authored a unique series of video works.<\/p>

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Given the onrush of new expression, a group of painters from the PWSSP, such as Piotr J\u00f3zefowicz, Kuba Bryzgalski and Jerzy Rymar, became ostentatiously pre-occupied with the technical perfection of the work. Their pieces betrayed a strong social edge, often targeted against the oppressive Communist regime and its propaganda, based on lies and contempt for the people. The artists\u2019 reaction to the widespread conservatism that dominated the PWSSP \u2013 as Piotr J\u00f3zefowicz said: \u201cthey\u2019re shooting at us, but we\u2019re painting model and still lives\u201d \u2013 came in the form of revolt and acting out the sick reality of martial law. It is one of the reasons why their work from the 1980s, exhibited mainly in the academic environment \u2013 remained off the radar of Polish art critics and audiences.<\/p>

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In Gda\u0144sk, since 1983 Grzegorz Klaman consistently pursued his search for new ways for art to exist. He made his idea of author\u2019s gallery materialise by opening a sequence of venues: Underground, Rotacyjna Gallery, Baraki and \u2013 in 1987 \u2013 Wyspa Gallery. Acting in close collaboration with Kazimierz Kowalczyk, Eugeniusz Szczud\u0142o and Jaros\u0142aw Flici\u0144ski, Klaman turned Wyspa into an autonomous and progressive centre of the Tri-City alternative art scene. Operating on the tip of Granary Island, the gallery co-created the artistic \u201cthird circulation.\u201d Exhibiting artists included: Jacek Staniszewski, Andrzej Kuich, Marek Rogulski, Kacper O\u0142owski and Robert Rumas. Far from a local ghetto, Wyspa became a hotspot of artistic exchange on a national scale.<\/p>

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A distinct space for art was developed by Katarzyna J\u00f3zefowicz and Marek Rogulski, who \u2013 besides artistic gestures of political nature \u2013 proposed particular models of autonomous anthropological art. An artist working beyond the academic system was Roman Painter of Women Grabowiecki, who turned the act of destroying his works into the leitmotif of his art.<\/p>

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Besides painting, Joanna Kabala and Andrzej Awsiej created \u2013 alongside Maciej Ruci\u0144ski \u2013 the extraordinary group Yo Als Jetzt, who pursued a unique kind of icono-linguistic street poetry. They formed part of the most radical artistic group of the 1980s: TOTART Transitory Formation, for whom they painted stage designs and produced dioramas made of hand-prepared slides.<\/p>

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In 1986, Sopot witnessed the groundbreaking exhibition \u201cExpression of the 1980s,\u201d curated by Ryszard Ziarkiewicz, which reshaped the image and formatted the division of powers on the Polish contemporary art map, with Tri-City artists represented by Grzegorz Klaman. The idiom of \u201cnew expression\u201d embraced Jacek Staniszewski, whose exhibition \u201cDread Object\u201d (1987) led to the closure of Gallery D., run by Ziarkiewicz. Artists from the coast, who functioned outside the black and white division of art into the official and oppositional circulations, were not eagerly invited to exhibit their work. A manifestation of the milieu came with the Warsaw exhibition \u201cArsena\u0142 \u201988,\u201d boycotted by the oppositional artistic circles, which was the first and the last such comprehensive presentation of Polish art, featuring more than a dozen participants from the Tri-City.<\/p>

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artists engaged in experimentation, addressed new topics and developed their own tools of generational expression. Depression, rage and revolt against the system, induced by martial law, became manifest through new expression and realism. The artists transformed neutral and socially disengaged fields of music and art into territories of social communication and pursued an analysis of reality and the atomised society. Artists from the Tri-City created an autonomous world of 1980s art, yet in majority they escaped the attention of mainstream artistic reflection, retaining their positions on the margins.<\/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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Place: Gda\u0144sk City Gallery 2, Powro\u017anicza street 13\/15 Exhibition: 21.04 -11.06.2017 Opening: 21.04.2017, 7.30 PM Artists: Janusz Akermann, Andrzej Awsiej, Kuba Bryzgalski, J\u00f3zef Czerniawski, Borys Czernichowski, Roman Malarz Kobiet Grabowiecki, Katarzyna J\u00f3zefowicz, Piotr J\u00f3zefowicz, Joanna Kabala, Grzegorz Klaman, Kazimierz Kowalczyk, Kacper O\u0142owski, Jacek Piotrowski, Marek…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-26873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ggm2-en","tag-single-photo"],"acf":{"data_rozpoczecia":"20170421","data_zakonczenia":"20170611","miejsce":"GGM2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26873"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26879,"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26873\/revisions\/26879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}