Third Picnic Lunch
Second Picnic Lunch
First Picnic Lunch
The Zuzanna M. Szary Cook Book
Zuzanna Szary composed her most recent solo exhibition — last year’s Tender Buttons at BWA Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski — around the figure and work of Gertrude Stein. The artist was inspired by the American writer’s relationship with Alice B. Toklas, their life together, the home they shared, and the space they experienced in common. The starting point was Stein’s own literary output, […]
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Untitled
The work of Constantin Brâncuși is central to the development of contemporary sculptural practice and constitutes a point of reference from which — as Okoński himself states — one cannot escape. The modernist axis mundi, with its gravity and sanctity, its refinement and the fragile strength of masculine eminence, is truncated and crowned with a realistic depiction of a large banana. A brutally […]
Ptak 1 (Bird 1)
A dead bird made of human bones. A coat of arms cast from melted beer cans. Memento Mori. In the eighteenth century, ossuary chapels filled with intricate constructions of human bones became important landmarks on Europe’s penitential and artistic map. Places such as the Sedlec Ossuary in Kutná Hora and the Chapel of Skulls in Kudowa-Zdrój, inscribed within the vanitas traditions of […]
Chłopka (Peasant Woman)
An axial composition that at first glance resembles a kind of abstract, geometric pendulum. On closer inspection, we discern in turn sickle-ribs and stone vertebrae. At the crown of the enamelled basin rests a small marble egg. A female figure. Goddess and demon. The archetypal Polish Mother, the Slavic Mokosh, yet also the południca — the Lady Midday — lurking with her sickle for the […]
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