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Subject: Open Art Projects presents The Tatra
Conference
November 17, 2014
Open Art Projects The road the the Valley of the
Five Ponds, October 2014. Photo: Maria Loboda. The
Tatra Conference 4b6 December 2014
Various venues
Zakopane
Poland
www.openartprojects.orgB
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Share B The Tatra Conference is an international
meeting of artists, curators, art historians, writers and anthropologists held
in the mountain resort of Zakopane. Their works, discussions and presentations
will be devoted to the avant-garde tradition of the locality, the artists once
associated with the town, as well as its mythology and surrounding nature.
Drawing on the history of the Zakopane's artistic colonyba group of artists
and writers for whom Zakopane of the late 19th century was the centre of
intellectual debate and a source of inspiration, the conference is conceived
as an attempt at exploring and investigating the creative potential of the
place.B
The point of departure is the art of sculptor WEadysEaw Hasior
(1928b1999), his entire life very closely linked with Zakopane, who still
remains one of the best known artists of post-war Poland. A charismatic author
of monuments, assemblages, performances and set designs, though travelling
abroad and drawing on his foreign experience, Hasior has always remained close
to the material culture of the Tatra Mountains region, its customs and
symbols. The recent renovation of the artist's gallery and his archives have
resulted in the reopening of research of his art and educational activities.
Thus the symposium about the Tatra Mountains, Zakopane, and Hasior himself is
an important component of the conference, with contributions presenting the
town and its history from the viewpoint of art, literature, anthropology and
politics, where Zakopane is more of an intellectual construct, an idyllic
utopia, a product of the imagination. Continuing along these lines, one of the
panels of the symposium is focused on Hasior's artistic practice seen through
the lens of local traditions and customs, but also concentrating on the figure
of the artist himself who had very consciously created his public image. Other
presentations treat the sculptor's work in a broader artistic context, with
questions about the exceptional nature of his art and its affiliations with
international tendencies, as well as his own entanglement in history and
politics. By gathering specialists from different disciplines, the event is
seen not so much as an academic revision of Hasior's practice but an impulse
triggering a critical approach to his rather complex oeuvre.B
The
conference assumes a broad field of references and tropes of interpretation of
Hasior's art. An artistic programme lies at its core, with participation of
international artists whose works will be presented in a number of locations,
mainly at the exhibition titled Modest Muses which focuses on ordinary objects
transformed into extraordinary works of art. The presentation is about the
insightful and vigilant observation of quotidian reality. Historical and
contemporary works blur the boundaries between the common and the special.
They question the rationalistic division of the world into the animate and
inanimate, displaying it via the prism of intuition and imagination. The
entire mood of the exhibition is determined by its specific locationbthe
mysterious nature, fantastic mythology of the place and surrealist motifs
present in the practice of the many artists who had worked there. There is
also an annex to the showba projection of slides selected from Hasior's
Photography Notepad, documenting the vernacular culture of Zakopane and the
region. In addition to the show, artist Maria Loboda has created a piece
locating it in the high mountain shelter at the Valley of the Five Ponds. The
conference also includes a film programme, Echoes from the Highlands, inspired
by the nature of the Tatras and the local rituals, as well as a performance by
Miet Warlop and a concert of the Pathman band made up of musicians who had
collaborated with Hasior in the past.B
Symposium
5b6 December 2014
Participants: Katarzyna Chrudzimska-Uhera, David Crowley, Julita Dembowska,
Anna Dezeuze, Jan Gondowicz, Eukasz Gorczyca, Dorota Jarecka, Ewa Klekot,
BEaE<ej Pindor, Slavs and Tatars, Ewa Tatar, Sarah Wilson, Anna E;akiewiczB
Artistic programme
ExhibitionB
Modest Muses
5 December 2014b11
January 2015
Preview: 4 December
The Tatra Museum, Gallery of 20th century
art at Villa Oksza
Artists: Caroline Achaintre, Geta BrDtescu, Ewa
Ciepielewska, Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, Habima Fuchs, Walon Green, BDla
KolaEova, Mark Leckey, Basim Magdy, Charlotte Moth, Paulina OEowska, Erna
Rosenstein
Performance
Agnieszka BrzeE<aEska
4 December 2014, 20hB
Film programme
Echoes from the Highlands
5 December 2014, 20h
SokC3E
Cinema
Artists:B Ben Rivers, Harry Smith, Cem Raios T'Abram collectiveB
Curated by Margarida Mendes
Concert
Pathman and Kinior
5 December 2014,
22h
Dworzec TatrzaEski
and
Maria Loboda, Day for NightB at the shelter
in the Valley of the Five PondsB
Entry to all the events is free of
charge, however the number of places is limited. Therefore we kindly request
confirmation of participation by 20 November by email to
[email protected].
Please follow the programme onB Facebook.B
The artistic programme is organized by Open Art Projects and the Tatra Museum
in Zakopane.
The symposium is organised by the the Tatra Museum in
Zakopane and Volans Association.
Project initiator: Kola EliwiEska
Curator: Kasia Redzisz
Artistic programme coordination: Magda Materna with
assistance of Emma Knaflewska
Symposium coordination: Kola EliwiEska, Ewa
Ciepielewska
Coordination on behalf of the Tatra Museum: Julita Dembowska
The symposium is possible thanks to the funding by the Adam Mickiewicz
Institute in Warsaw, as well as the City of Zakopane in partnership with the
Zakopane Promotion Office.
The artistic programme has been financed by
the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, MaEopolskie Voivoideship and
the City of Zakopane in partnership with the Zakopane Promotion Office.
Project supported by Institutes of Polish Culture in London, Stockholm and
Paris.
Partners of Open Art Projects: The Starak Family Foundation,
Spectra Art Space, Polpharma, European Compensation Center
311 East Broadway
New York City, 10002 USA
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