{"id":27383,"date":"2016-06-24T12:11:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T10:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/?p=27383"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:41:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T13:41:47","slug":"paganus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/27383\/paganus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Paganus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Exhibition:<\/strong> 24.06-07.08.2016<\/p>

Place:<\/strong> Gda\u0144sk City Gallery 1<\/p>

Artists: <\/strong>Marta Cwujdzi\u0144ska, Micha\u0142 \u0141agowski, Adam Kruk, Justyna Or\u0142owska, Bartosz Zimniak aka Pomme de Terre<\/p>

Curator:<\/strong> Wiktoria Bie\u017cu\u0144ska<\/p>

Wystawa:<\/strong> 24.06-07.08.2016<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What is Paganus?<\/strong><\/p>

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The idea to present a display documenting the work of several young artists active in the countryside was born even before their first meeting was decided on. There was no plan or a mission statement to give a context, apart from the simple idea of gathering a number of AoFA students in a village, in a barn belonging to \u0141agowski\u2019s parents \u2013 for \u201cactivity\u201d.<\/p>

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In order to write the conception of the exhibition required by the director of the Gallery of that time \u2013 Iwona Bigos \u2013 \u0141agowski made an intuitive suggestion: \u201cPaganus\u201d, meaning a pagan, somebody uninitiated, lacking certain knowledge, a stranger or outsider. And the director took the risk and included the exhibition within the programme framework on the basis of just a few sentences drafted on a sheet of paper.<\/p>

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Therefore, to build a narration about and around the display, the easiest strategy would be to follow the definition: the word \u201cpaganus\u201d itself is rich enough in its etymology and potential contemporary interpretations to provide a good background to deliberate over the artists \/ na\u00efve savages, who try to scratch something together in this oddly indifferent, static and stubbornly silent area \u2013 the countryside.<\/p>

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Indeed, this is also what the exhibition is about.<\/p>

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However, \u201cPaganus\u201d is more than that. It is also one of the \u201cprojects\u201d emerging in dozens of cultural institutions across the country with the intention of opening a slot in various environments and \u201cspaces\u201d of towns and cities, in order to tell a story, attract attention and, in the best-case scenario, to introduce some change.<\/p>

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One could risk the statement that \u201ePaganus\u201d deconstructs the logic ruling the so-called \u201cproject\u201d because, as a matter of fact, it is one itself \u2013 with the mechanism of raising funds and settling accounts in relevant institutions or following the process of approving the proposal and including it in the Gallery\u2019s budget at least one year in advance. Whatever difficulties need to be overcome, real costs paid, goals achieved or failures faced, the invoices still need to be submitted, the work resulting in tangible effects \u2013 done. Even if the latter was \u201ca screwed-up tissue dumped on the floor\u201d.<\/p>

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The reason why various projects are born is not because they are tangible processes firmly rooted in a specific time and space or because they result from concrete premises and conditions. A project appears out of nowhere, like an invader, appropriating and presenting the space and its inhabitants. The \u201cPaganus\u201d project, which in the end was a failure, especially when compared with the last year\u2019s high-flown assumptions presented to Iwona Bigos, also demonstrates the clumsiness and incapability of artists acting within the rural context. It disproves not only the na\u00efve enthusiasm of the barbarians rendering \u201cprojects\u201d but the effects of their activity as well.<\/p>

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We are pagans ourselves and therefore we roll up leaves of green tissue paper. We cut out flowers from construction paper. And we hang them from the Gallery\u2019s ceiling. It is not an accusation pointed at an insincere idyll of the countryside. Neither is it the hipster-like rot of AoFA students absorbed in creating bio art. It is just what it is: leaves made of tissue paper. This is precisely what we are involved in just now.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exhibition: 24.06-07.08.2016 Place: Gda\u0144sk City Gallery 1 Artists: Marta Cwujdzi\u0144ska, Micha\u0142 \u0141agowski, Adam Kruk, Justyna Or\u0142owska, Bartosz Zimniak aka Pomme de Terre Curator: Wiktoria Bie\u017cu\u0144ska Wystawa: 24.06-07.08.2016 What is Paganus? \u00a0 The idea to present a display documenting the work of several young artists active…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27421,"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":[106],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-27383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ggm1-en","tag-single-photo"],"acf":{"data_rozpoczecia":"20160624","data_zakonczenia":"20160807","miejsce":"GGM1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27383","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=27383"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27430,"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27383\/revisions\/27430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ggm.gda.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}