A sculpture depicting two stools, whose heavy, squat form and the material employed \u2014 evocative of Polish postmodern gravestones \u2014 is set against the modesty and commonplaceness of a functional piece of furniture. The work makes an ironic reference to post-transformation poverty with its yearning for modernity and opulence. The piece of furniture itself also carries a grotesque constellation of associations: from companion to the monotonous peeling of potatoes, to the instrument that aids the suicide in taking final leave of the sufferings of earthly existence.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A sculpture depicting two stools, whose heavy, squat form and the material employed \u2014 evocative of Polish postmodern gravestones \u2014 is set against the modesty and commonplaceness of a functional piece of furniture. The work makes an ironic reference to post-transformation poverty with its yearning for modernity and opulence. The piece of furniture itself also […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17838,"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\/17811"}],"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=17811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17839,"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17811\/revisions\/17839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17811"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufoart.gallery\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=17811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}