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october 25, 2018 - Mocak Museum

ALICJA BIAŁA, 'Polish Cut-Outs' at MOCAK

ALICJA BIAŁA 

Polish Cut-Outs

 

Curator: Magdalena Mazik
Opening date: 5.10.2018 at 6 pm
Running: 6.10.2018–9.12.2018
Venue: MOCAK Library

 

Polish Cut-Outs by Alicja Biała are an ever-expanding collection of over 40 collages. The biggest ones are compositions more than two metres long. How best to capture the image of one’s own country? The artist is trying to find the answer. Her method employs all possible means at her disposal: things that she has remembered and heard, archival photographs, materials found on the internet and her own shots. Alicja Biała’s take on the image of Poland, as evident from her works, is that history explains the present. The exhibition will feature both new cut-outs and those illustrating Marcin Świetlicki’s selection of poems Polska (wiązanka pieśni patriotycznych) [Poland (A Collection of Patriotic Songs)], published by Wydawnictwo Wolno (2018).

 

During the opening of the exhibition there will be an opportunity to meet the artist and the poet Marcin Świetlicki as well as Jarosław Borowiec from the publishers Wydawnictwo Wolno. The music will be provided by the duo Delta Tekla, with Marcin Świetlicki and Małgorzata Tekiel.

 

During the opening you will also have an opportunity to take part in the action Polska bez obrazy [Poland – No Offence Taken], inaugurated on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the country regaining independence. As part of this endeavour, three original works by Alicja Biała and the volume by Marcin Świetlicki will be available on a short-term loan to those interested in experiencing art in private.

Those interested please contact the MOCAK Library at: biblioteka@mocak.pl or by phone: (+48) 12 263 40 36.

Alicja Biała (born 1993) – illustrator, graphic and visual artist. Graduate of VIA University College and Copenhagen School of Design and Technology in Denmark. She is currently continuing her education at the Royal College of Art in London. She is the author of murals in Warsaw (Cyclists, 2016), Agueda (Widows and Widowers, 2016), Mexico City (Mexico Dances, 2017) and Kassel