Gallery Foto-Gen Center for Culture and Art in Wroclaw / 05.08.2022 / 18:00
The latest exhibition at FOTO-GEN Gallery will present the works of Jozef Robakowski - one of the most important artists of Polish contemporary art, art historian, author of films, photographic series, video recordings, drawings, installations, objects, conceptual projects, initiator of many important events and multimedia artistic actions, curator.
Jozef Robakowski's artistic language and the creative method he has developed over the years are a mixture of conceptual and analytical elements, combined with an uninhibited, often humorous convention. The naturalness of the gestures undertaken and the apparent lack of effort are evident in his realizations. Subsequent decades in Robakowski's work were marked by an autonomous attitude and resistance to the dominant tendencies of artistic life, while simultaneously co-creating them.
A key element for Robakowski's activities is intermediality, which is a tradition of avant-garde art - involving filmmakers, photographers, visual artists, musicians or poets.
The many years of Jozef Robakowski's work, up to the present, have been a constant escape from the set canons, a discussion with the medium, registration and recording: "It is more than certain that Jozef Robakowski will not get over it and will surprise us with another game of 'real with image,' even if this image already becomes something completely different from what it has been so far."
Collected at the exhibition and in the accompanying catalog, "Laboratory, Biological-Mechanical Records," the works are a synthesis of the most important areas of Robakowski's art: the relationship of the biological with the mechanical, the flow of energy and the deconstruction of traditional means of image or video fixation.
Jozef Robakowski - was born on February 20, 1939 in Poznan. He studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, art history and museology, and at the Department of Cinematography at the Polish National Film School in Lodz, where in 1970-1981 he was a lecturer and head of the Department of Photography and Visual Advertising. In 1995 he returned to work at this university, and currently heads the Multimedia Activities Studio. Since the late 1950s, he has participated in numerous exhibitions, film festivals and those devoted to new media. His works have been shown in the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, and his realizations are in the world's most important institutional collections and private collections. Curator and owner of Exchange Gallery.
Co-founder of art groups, undertaking experimental activities, including: OKO (1960), STKF PĘTLA (1960-1966), ZERO-61 (1961-1969), KRĄG (1965-1967), and a group established in 1970 in Lodz called the Workshop of Film Form and Television Creative Group called Stacja Ł (1991-1992).
Organizer:
FOTO-GEN Gallery of the Center for Culture and Art in Wroclaw - Institution of Culture of the Local Government of Lower Silesia | pl. bpa Nankiera 8, Wroclaw |. www.fotogen.okis.pl
*Source: FOTO-GEN Gallery.
"Photography Quarterly" took patronage of the event.