The 1982 cultural exchange between Łódź and Los Angeles
With this publication we wish to honor fifty artists who donated their artworks to foreign museums. What this book is calling "the Polish–American exchange" was an initiative of a group of Warsaw-based artists who wanted to establish contact with their colleagues abroad. The art scene in a...
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Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi
2024
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | With this publication we wish to honor fifty artists who donated their artworks to foreign museums. What this book is calling "the Polish–American exchange" was an initiative of a group of Warsaw-based artists who wanted to establish contact with their colleagues abroad. The art scene in a Soviet satellite country had its limitations, to say the least, but there were still exceptional places and people who made their mark. During the directorship of Ryszard Stanisławski, Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź was one of them. Its origins, dating back to the 1920s, intertwined with biographies of the most interesting postwar artists, and led to significant art donations. Polish artists offered their pieces to the newly established Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (MOCA), and those based in the United States contributed to the Muzeum Sztuki’s collection. Although 1982 marks the first public presentation of these donations, it was a year later that these pieces were processed and included in the inventory. With this publication we celebrate the anniversary of the formal gesture which sealed the exchange. This publication responds to a necessity: to study two sub-collections of major art museums in Łódź and Los Angeles, a task that required direct contact with artists, archival research, and a platform to discuss the broader contexts of these collections. Conversations with the artist Koji Kamoji and the 1982 engineer of the exchange, Anka Ptaszkowska, were extremely helpful in understanding the conditions of art production and exhibition-making at the project’s core. At the same time, their recollections included many anecdotes and testified to the congenial nature of the activities... |
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| Beschreibung: | 447 Seiten Illustrationen 30 cm |
| ISBN: | 9788366696433 978-83-66696-43-3 836669643X 83-66696-43-X |