{"id":27302,"date":"2017-03-31T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T08:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/?p=27302"},"modified":"2024-07-31T10:57:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T08:57:50","slug":"the-able-hand-moshe-kupferman-marek-chlanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/27302\/the-able-hand-moshe-kupferman-marek-chlanda\/","title":{"rendered":"The Able Hand. Moshe Kupferman \/ Marek Chlanda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We were in Marek Chlanda\u2019s studio.<\/p>\n

A book with paintings was on the table.<\/p>\n

The pictures were very intensive, intriguing. We asked: Who painted them?<\/p>\n

Marek answered: Moshe Kupferman, a painter from Jaros\u0142aw.<\/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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Exhibition:<\/strong> March 24th – June 3th, 2017<\/p>\n

Place:<\/strong> Gda\u0144sk City Gallery \/ G\u00fcnter Grass Gallery in Gda\u0144sk<\/p>\n

Artists:<\/strong> Moshe Kupferman, Marek Chlanda<\/p>\n

Opening:<\/strong> March 24th (Friday) at 6 pm.<\/p>\n

Opening hours:<\/strong> Tuesday-Sunday, 12 – 7 pm.<\/p>\n

Curators:<\/strong> Ewa \u0141\u0105czy\u0144ska-Widz, Piotr Stasiowski<\/p>\n

Content-related collaboration:<\/strong> Igor Bloch<\/p>\n

Artistic collaboration:<\/strong> Magdalena Burdzy\u0144ska, Przemys\u0142aw Branas, Kaja Gliwa, Jadwiga Sawicka<\/p>\n

Graphic design:<\/strong> Magdalena Burdzy\u0144ska<\/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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Our visit to Marek Chlanda’s studio in Krak\u00f3w took place more than two years ago. Since that time we went a long way together. It led us through Jaros\u0142aw, the place where Moshe Kupferman was born. In this subcarpathian town we presented the life and work of this outstanding Polish-Israeli painter to the inhabitants who did not know about his existence. Together with Kaja Gliwa, Marek Chlanda, Igor Bloch and Przemek Branas we led a workshop on Kupferman\u2019s work that was organised in the Art School in Jaros\u0142aw. On the day of the artist\u2019s 90th birthday, together with his children, we unveiled a memorial plaque on the wall of the house where he was born and Kapela Brod\u00f3w played a special concert in his honour in the former synagogue. A guide showed us places Kupferman certainly knew and remembered from his life in Jaros\u0142aw before the war, including an Art Nouveau building of the Association of Jewish Manufacturers called Yad Charusim – Able Hand.<\/p>\n

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This was the title of the exhibition we opened on December 18th 2016 in the Artistic Exhibitions Bureau (BWA) in Tarn\u00f3w. We showed there, among others, Kupferman\u2019s works brought from Lohamei Hagheta\u2019ot (The Ghetto Fighters’) kibbutz. Moshe was one of the founders of this place and his whole post-war life was connected with it. First he worked there as a bricklayer and he gradually discovered his passion as a painter. The experience of a craftsman’s work is visible in his paintings, which are well worked-out and are effect of various actions: putting the paint on, drawing, scratching and ripping off some of the layers. You can find many of his signatures on several of his paintings, as if he tried to sign the time he spent on creating subsequent versions of a particular picture. To Kupferman his work of a painter was similar to the work of a kibbutz builder. He showed a great devotion to a creative act, and he worked on his paintings every day, for a couple of hours. This is where their great energy comes from. During the \u201cAble Hand\u201d exhibition in BWA in Tarn\u00f3w we presented Moshe\u2019s paintings together with the works and installations of Marek Chlanda. They constituted his intimate correspondence with his friend\u2019s works.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Moshe and Marek met in 1993, when Kupferman was preparing his exhibitions in Muzeum Sztuki in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a and the Centre of Contemporary Art in Ujazd\u00f3w Castle. They presented their works together during a group exhibition \u201cGdzie jest tw\u00f3j brat, Abel?\u201d (\u201cWhere is your brother Abel?\u201d) in Zach\u0119ta gallery in Warszawa, 1995. There was no occasion, however, to confront their works in a form of a dialogue. Kupferman never investigated the theme of war in his works, apart from \u201cThe Rift in Time\u201d series of paintings he created in 1999. After Kupferman’s death, Chlanda spent a couple of days in his studio in the kibbutz in 2008. During this visit he created a series of works on canvas and cardboard, titled\u00a0 \u201cAfter the Rift in Time\u201d. They referred to Moshe\u2019s experience, as well as \u201cAcropolis\u201d by Jerzy Grotowski and J\u00f3zef Szajna and both metaphorical and literal energy one can find in the works of those artists. Both series have never been presented together until now.<\/p>\n

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After the exhibition in BWA in Tarn\u00f3w we exhibit Kupferman\u2019s and Chlanda\u2019s paintings in Gda\u0144sk City Gallery. They are presented in the gallery\u2019s branch dedicated to G\u00fcnter Grass at Szeroka Street. Interestingly, Grass was only one year younger than Kupferman. They both had to leave the places they were born because of the war, although their life experiences were completely different. \u201cThe grid that you see in any of my works is a basic form for me\u201d – Moshe said in an interview conducted by Stuart Klawans in 1995. \u201cThe horizontal lines like horizons \u2013 different viewpoints on reality \u2013 and the vertical lines are like human presences. So you could say the grid is a way of legitimizing differences. It shows that different elements – not only elements, but values \u2013 can co-exist, in multiple existences. The grid is a way of combining experiences rather than eliminating them\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The catalogue called \u201cAble Hand\u201d published by BWA Tarn\u00f3w and GGM is an addition to the exhibition.<\/p>\n

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The exhibition in part of the Year of Avant-Garde – the centenary of avant garde in Poland, celebrated in 2017 under the honorary patronage of UNESCO.<\/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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Moshe Kupferman<\/strong> was born on August 12th 1926 in Jaros\u0142aw. His parents had gentlemen and children confection store. He went to a Hebrew Tarbut school and celebrated his bar mitzvah less than a month before II World War’s outbreak. In 1941, together with his family, he was deported to isolation camps in Kazakhstan and Ural mountains. After the war, he went back to Poland first, but then quickly emigrated to Germany, where he joined the Dror Youth Movement and lived in a DPs camp. In 1948 he went to Israel, where he was one of the co-founders of Lohamei Haghetaot (The Ghetto Fighters’) kibbutz.\u00a0 He worked there as a bricklayer and simultaneously developed his painting skills. As an outstanding painter, he had numerous individual exhibitions, in such places as the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Haifa Museum of Art, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, the Centre Pompidou and the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris. His works were also presented during many group exhibitions, like the XLII Venice Biennale, the ones in Worcester Art Museum in the USA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, or The Jewish Museum in New York. In Poland his art was exhibited in Muzeum Sztuki in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, the Centre of Contemporary Art in Ujazd\u00f3w Castle and Zach\u0119ta National Gallery of Art. He died on January 20th 2003 in The Ghetto Fighters\u2019 kibbutz.<\/p>\n

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Marek Chlanda<\/strong> was born on Novemver 12th 1954 in Krak\u00f3w. He is a drawer, a graphic artist, a sculptor, a performer and an author of installations. He studied at the Department of Graphics of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krak\u00f3w and graduated in 1978. He had individual exhibitions in Galerie Kanal 2 in Copenhagen, Muzeum Sztuki in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Budapest Galeria in Budapest, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Zach\u0119ta National Gallery of Art in Warszawa, Curt Marcus Gallery and Kentler International Drawing Space in New York, Muzalewska Gallery and the National Museum in Pozna\u0144, Bunkier Sztuki gallery and MOCAK in Krak\u00f3w, Foksal Gallery in Warszawa, among others. He participated in the following group exhibitions: 11 Biennale de Paris in Musee d\u2019Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 22 Bienal de Sao Paulo, The First Gwangju Biennale, and the ones in: Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Third Eye Centre in Glasgow, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art in Kyongju, Mucsarnok in Budapest, Chicago Cultural Center, MUHKA Antwerpen, BWA Tarn\u00f3w, National Art Museum of China NAMOG, Beijing. He lives in Krak\u00f3w.<\/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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