NEW ILLUSTRATIONS

Equally important is the theme of artists inspired by other artists’ work or personality or art theory; this often requires adapting a new medium.

 

We would like to focus on relations between image and text— literary or scientific— text and film, photography and music etc. Such correspondences might seem far-fetched at times, but the common thread is a fascination, a need to start a conversation across the boundaries of disciplines.

 

The title word illustrations is used in a very broad sense: it implies responding with images, sounds or movement to ideas that might be shared by very different artistic personalities. Relations between art forms are bound to be complex and ambiguous. When literary texts and esoteric philosophical doctrines, art theories or scientific hypotheses intermingle with images and sounds, the consequence might be chaos but of an invigorating kind. New, more intuitive interpretations may appear; one may feel encouraged to experiment, for instance translating from the visual into the auditory and vice versa. Multisided inspirations may result in multilevel conversations in multiple languages.

 

Also important is the educational aspect of the exhibition: the conversation continues, as each piece and theme in the show is expected toprovide a stimulus to workshops and other interactive activities on various levels. Thus, work created in response to another art form, becomes in turn a starting point for yet another creative act.

Our goal is to demonstrate the diversity of contemporary art and to facilitate interpretations of art forms by means of e.g. movement, sound or image.

 

Jadwiga Sawicka, Magdalena Godlewska-Siwerska

 

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Events accompanying the exhibition New Ilustrations include:

3.06.2016 at 7 p.m., Arszyn plays De Maria, a concert by Krzysztof Topolski
 
3.06.2016 at 6 p.m.,  RBR 8186, a performance by Bartosz Fic i Piotr Woroniec Jr.
 
4.06. 2016 at 11 a.m., Curatorial tour with artists (translation into sign language by Justyna Nowosadko)

 

9.06.2016 at 6 p.m., Cecylia Malik, Raj na ziemi ( Paradise on Earth), a film screening

 

23.06.2016 at 6 p.m., I steal from each movie I watch, a meeting with an artist – Dorota Podlaska

 

8.07.2016, Translating art, a performance by Karolina Breguła

 

18.08.2016 at 6 p.m., Theatrical Guided Tour, a performance by Maria Żynel

 

Film screenings:

 

7.07.2016 at 6 p.m.,  Tomasz Waszczeniuk, Budzenie motyla (Butterfly Awakening), a film screening

28.07.2016 at 6 p.m., Jacek Malinowski, Trylogia białostocka (The Białystok Trilogy), a film screeing