{"id":17793,"date":"2026-02-24T19:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/?p=17793"},"modified":"2026-02-24T19:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:33:18","slug":"wyzymanie-wringing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wystawy\/the-curiosity-wystawy\/wyzymanie-wringing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wy\u017cymanie (Wringing)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spindle-shaped, monumental form constructed from characteristic <em>pasiaki<\/em> \u2014 folk textiles sold during the People&#8217;s Republic of Poland era through the Central Bureau of Folk and Artistic Industry, &#8220;Cepelia&#8221; \u2014 recalls an enormous dress, majestically spinning in an unsettling, slowed movement. The artist references the <em>Tower of Fire<\/em> by Bauhaus-affiliated Johannes Itten, who, alongside his studies in colour theory, was also engaged with esoteric philosophy derived from Mazdaist concepts. The form of the <em>pasiaki<\/em> evokes strong associations with the folk art of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. In this context, the sculptural installation may be read as a totem uniting elements of Slavic tradition with the ancient cultures of the American continent. An important point of reference here are the words attributed to Frederick the Great, who contemptuously referred to the inhabitants of Poland as the &#8220;Iroquois of Europe,&#8221; pointing to their supposed savagery and primitiveness as obstacles to the process of modernisation. The striped patterns also evoke associations with prison garb as attire that dehumanises the figure of the captive. The exploration of these tensions \u2014 and in particular the juxtaposition of themes of wildness and vulgarity against the modernist concept of geometric order \u2014 forms the axis of much of Oko\u0144ski&#8217;s creative practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spindle-shaped, monumental form constructed from characteristic pasiaki \u2014 folk textiles sold during the People&#8217;s Republic of Poland era through the Central Bureau of Folk and Artistic Industry, &#8220;Cepelia&#8221; \u2014 recalls an enormous dress, majestically spinning in an unsettling, slowed movement. The artist references the Tower of Fire by Bauhaus-affiliated Johannes Itten, who, alongside his [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[369],"tags":[221],"ppma_author":[370],"acf":{"photo_gallery":{"galeria":[[]],"galeria_events":[[],[]]}},"authors":[{"term_id":370,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"mateusz-okonski","display_name":"Mateusz Oko\u0144ski","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","description":"Mateusz Oko\u0144ski (b. 1985) is a graduate of the Faculty of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He is the founder and first artistic director of Zbiornik Kultury (Culture Tank) at the Malopolska Institute of Culture. In 2010, together with Jakub Skoczek and Jakub Woynarowski, he established the artistic group Quadratum Nigrum, which explores conspiracy motifs and gaps in history, combining classical avant-garde works with historical inspirations into new, surprising forms.\r\n\r\nHe is a recipient of the Ministry of Culture scholarship and the awards \"Kulturalne Odloty\" and \"Marka Radia Krak\u00f3w.\" He has collaborated with institutions in Poland and abroad, including: Manggha Museum, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Toy Museum, CSW Wiewi\u00f3rka, National Museum (Krak\u00f3w), Lentos Kunstmuseum (Linz), Temporary Gallery (Cologne), and Kunstverein Stuttgart."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17801,"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17793\/revisions\/17801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17793"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=17793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}