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GYPSUM FLESH STORY
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- 💙 ASP Gallery, Kraków, Basztowa 18 St.
- 💚 Filip Rybkowski
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GYPSUM FLESH STORY, Exhibition View
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Grzegorz Kumorek Hybrid, silicone, gypsum, 2023
Head of Moses (Copy), plaster cast, ca. 1830-1850, original: Michelangelo Buona, Andrzej Wróblewski Leader, oil on cardboard, 1945-1951, Rafał Dominik Unintelligent explains something to Inteligent, sandstone, 2017
GYPSUM FLESH STORY, Exhibition View
Jan Eustachy Wolski Untitled, installation, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and the Piktogram gallery, Krzysztof Grzybacz Portrait I, oil on canvas, 2022. Private Collection
Agata Jarosławiec I never touched my father like that, video 02:55, 2020
Olaf Brzeski Self-portrait, bronze, 2012. Courtesy of Raster Gallery
Head of Moses copy, plaster cast, ca. 1830-1850, original: Michelangelo Buona, Marta Antoniak Head, own technique (plastic, plush, acrylic paint), 2017, Andrzej Wróblewski Leader, oil on cardboard, 1945-1951, Head of a man with an open mouth copy
Gizela Mickiewicz Traces of people, sculpture, own technique, 2022
GYPSUM FLESH STORY, Exhibition view
Paulina Stasik Remnants II, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2021. Private collection, Dominik Ritszel Resistance, HD video 03:29, 2020, Dawid copy, bottom fragment, plaster cast, original: Donatello, 1430–40
Paulina Stasik Remnants II, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2021. Private collection
Ksenia Gryckiewicz Whispers, oil on canvas, 2022, Marta Antoniak, Otitis, own technique (plastic, resin, enamel), 2016
GYPSUM FLESH STORY, Exhibition View
Marta Antoniak Sharp Dog, own technique (plush, fiberglass, glass), 2017, Zofia Pałucha Purity of Philosophical Discourse, 2022
Julia Kowalska If you can't swallow it, turn around discreetly, and throw it somewhere, oil on canvas, 2022, Bartek Górny Squeeze, acrylic gypsum, 2012, Julia Kowalska untitled, oil on canvas, 2022. Courtesy of Krupa Collection
Nadia Markiewicz Mysterioso, video-performance, 2021. Courtesy of the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Slupsk
Marta Antoniak Teddy bear, own technique (plastic, plush, fiberglass), 2016., Mr. Poop, own technique (fiberglass, plush, spray paint), 2016, Krysia, own technique (fiberglass, plastic), 2016
Radek Szlęzak Guinea Pig Club, 2017-2023
Zofia Pałucha Purity of Philosophical Discourse, 2022
The image of human body, its depiction and representations have undergone social and cultural transformations over the millennia. Human body has been viewed from various perspectives; studied, revered, admired, objectified and desired, subjected to oppression and disciplined in various ways.
A context for the exhibition and its title is the collection of "casts" exhibited in the corridors of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Specifically, casts of antique and Renaissance sculptures, brought to the Academy throughout the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. Terms contained in the title, GYPSUM and FLESH, build a broad connection between living and fleshy, dead and solid.
The STORY narrated between GYPSUM and FLESH is an attempt to look at contemporary phenomena in the field of visual arts for which the body and its representations are not so much a subject, but rather a space for reflection on this specific obsession of our species to create ever new replicas, imprints and images of itself. The exhibition presents works that take a variety of perspectives on corporeality, physicality and the human figure.
The works of artists invited to the GYPSUM FLESH STORY exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts Gallery are arranged against selected casts of ancient and Renaissance sculptures (from the collection of the Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow). The casts, which for many years served as teaching aids in the study of drawing at the Academy, preceding the opportunity to work with a live model (still reduced to the role of a prop), are inscribed in another story. A story about a body that feels, fights for its subjectivity and, although subjected to numerous rigors, is able to shape reality.
Filip Rybkowski
