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Vision and Communism at The Smart Museum (Exhibition Review) Print E-mail
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Kat Hill Reischl (Chicago)   
Monday, 26 December 2011 02:04

The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, September 29, 2011-January 22, 2012

Upon entering the exhibition Vision and Communism, the viewer is purposefully presented with little information about the Soviet artist and designer Viktor Koretsky (1909- 1998). The almost ninety examples of Koretsky’s work on display make up the largest show featuring this artist in America to date, and include lithographic print posters, mixed-media maquettes, and black-and-white photographs. The exhibition is framed by both its enigmatic title and in the exhibition space itself so that Koretsky’s visually arresting work makes maximum visual impact.

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Eyes Looking For a Head to Inhabit in Łódź (Exhibition Review) Print E-mail
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Agnieszka Rejniak-Majewska (Łódź)   
Friday, 23 December 2011 00:00

El Lissitzky, Models for a performance Victory over the Sun, projects from 1923, reconstruction by John Milner, 2009. Photograph by P. Tomczyk (ms2). Image courtesy of the Museum  of Art, Łódź

Eyes Looking For a Head to Inhabit, curated by Aleksandra Jach, Joanna Sokołowska, Katarzyna Słoboda and Magdalena Ziółkowska, Museum of Art Łódź, 30 September, 2011-11 December, 2011.

The exhibition at the Museum of Art in Łódź celebrates the 80th anniversary of the International Collection of Modern Art, which was created by members of the Polish constructivist avantgarde: Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński, with the effective help of Jan Brzękowski and Henryk Stażewski, who together constituted the "a.r." (revolutionary artists) group. This historical collection, encompassing a variety of contemporary artists' works ranging from van Doesburg, through Leger, to Arp and Ernst, from cubism to surrealism, was the symbolic beginning of the presently existing Museum.

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Journey to the East (Exhibition Review) Print E-mail
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Larissa Babij (Kyiv)   
Sunday, 16 October 2011 09:39

TanzLaboratorium, LOVE-scape. Performance, 2011. Photo by Maciej Zaniewski. Image courtesy of Galeria Arsenal.Journey to the East, Galeria Arsenal in Białystok, August 5-September 30, 2011

The Journey to the East opened on August 5 (until September 30) at the Galeria Arsenal in Białystok, Poland. Curated by Monika Szewczyk, along with a team of local curators from the countries featured in the exhibition – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Poland – the comprehensive show featured artworks filling two gallery spaces, objects in the public space of Białystok, performances and a day-long conference. The project is being realized within the Cultural Program of the Polish EU Presidency in 2011, and will travel later in the year to Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv (October 30-November 11) and to MOCAK in Krakow (December 1, 2011-January 29, 2012).

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