Post by Jaga on Oct 25, 2006 7:56:19 GMT -7
here is the article about this unique exhibition. We saw it with Ela, Ela even played with some blocks in the synagoque (since they let her to do so, I will post the picture with parts of the exhibition and playing Ela when I would get home).
The friend of mine, a free-lance artist did not like the exhibition since it did not seem to match to the Renaissance background
but, this is exactly what people do this days, they match unmatchable!
here is more about it:
In the south-east of Poland, five hours from Warsaw, lies Zamosc, a delightful town founded in the 16th century, designed by a Paduan architect as an ideal city and with its original grid layout still intact. Zamosc provided the setting for ‘Ideal City – Invisible Cities’, an exhibition featuring 40 artists of different generations. Monika Sosnowska’s concrete fountain (A Dirty Fountain, 2006), which combined the ideal proportions of a square with the black water spouting from it, was one of several works created for outdoor spaces. The exhibition also appropriated old fortifications, a synagogue, a former academy and two museums, thus almost completely merging with the city’s existing architecture.
The best integrated works were in the synagogue, where Pedro Cabrita Reis’ steel pipe sculpture Compound # 7 (2006) was erected in the centre of the building, where the bimah once stood. The piece resembled building materials rather than part of a temple destroyed during World War II. Katarzyna Jozefowicz installed her work Games (2002) in the part of the synagogue traditionally reserved for women. The piece consisted of 21,000 cubes made from leaflets found in supermarkets, referring to womanly activities. The spheres of consumption and everyday routine contrasted with the sanctity of a place that, in the Jewish tradition, is reserved solely for men. The work could be taken to refer ultimately to the place of spirituality in a modern city: can a temple that was once devastated – or one that has melted into an urban commercial centre – still serve its sacred function?
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www.frieze.com/review_single.asp?r=2537
The friend of mine, a free-lance artist did not like the exhibition since it did not seem to match to the Renaissance background
but, this is exactly what people do this days, they match unmatchable!
here is more about it:
In the south-east of Poland, five hours from Warsaw, lies Zamosc, a delightful town founded in the 16th century, designed by a Paduan architect as an ideal city and with its original grid layout still intact. Zamosc provided the setting for ‘Ideal City – Invisible Cities’, an exhibition featuring 40 artists of different generations. Monika Sosnowska’s concrete fountain (A Dirty Fountain, 2006), which combined the ideal proportions of a square with the black water spouting from it, was one of several works created for outdoor spaces. The exhibition also appropriated old fortifications, a synagogue, a former academy and two museums, thus almost completely merging with the city’s existing architecture.
The best integrated works were in the synagogue, where Pedro Cabrita Reis’ steel pipe sculpture Compound # 7 (2006) was erected in the centre of the building, where the bimah once stood. The piece resembled building materials rather than part of a temple destroyed during World War II. Katarzyna Jozefowicz installed her work Games (2002) in the part of the synagogue traditionally reserved for women. The piece consisted of 21,000 cubes made from leaflets found in supermarkets, referring to womanly activities. The spheres of consumption and everyday routine contrasted with the sanctity of a place that, in the Jewish tradition, is reserved solely for men. The work could be taken to refer ultimately to the place of spirituality in a modern city: can a temple that was once devastated – or one that has melted into an urban commercial centre – still serve its sacred function?
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www.frieze.com/review_single.asp?r=2537