Description
The cover hero is Andrzej Dudek-Dürer - a performer, media artist, composer and musician from Wroclaw, an eccentric or a reincarnation of Albert Dürer - you can find out all this by reading Krzysztof Jurecki's test. On the other hand, Andrzej Rozycki is a photographer, director of films on folk culture and a collector, we show his collage. Gabriela Morawetz creates photographs that seem to be paintings, and are only connected to them by a substrate (usually canvas) and a brush with which she applies light-sensitive emulsion. Stanislaw J.Wos shows mirror reflections (of reality?), while Guatemalan Luis González Palma's photographs are full of pain, sadness, but also the color and power of Orthodox icons. With Thomas Zika and his photography, we can immerse, emerge and bathe in the possibilities of sight and in the limits of media perception and representation. From the water we fall into Thomas Flechtner's snowy photographs after which we come into contact with Vlodymyr Parafianok's Persons non grata and immediately move to the "tattooed" bodies in black charcoal, ink, leaves and poetry in Carlos Betancourt's photographs. Bodies, lots of bodies, bodies in different shots. That's how I see it now, because the next series is Nicolai Howalt's "Boxer," portraits of young athletes taken before and after a fight. There is blood, sweat, fatigue. The transformation of the protagonist and the typology of boxers. Then there is portraiture again, this time by Piotr Tomczyk and remarks on this oldest and widely exploited photographic subject. Well, and while we're talking about this subject, Witkacy's "Multiple Portrait" can't be missed. A small break from people in the neopictorial style of Leszek Zurek's "My Gardens" to jump into Natalia LL's "Consumer Art." Ignas Kazakevičius describes "Erosion," a project by Lithuanian, Finnish, Swedish and Polish photographers shown in 2005 in Klaipeda. Magdalena Kulawiak's "Torzeniec" series juxtaposes arcadian drawings of the title village and photographs of what is currently left of these places. Justyna Ryczek writes about the exhibition of artists-educators "Common Places," Karolina Lewandowska writes about Eugène Atgett and Maciej Szymanowicz writes about Roman Stefan Ulatowski and his pre-war photos of Poznan. Mini-reviews of books, chronicle of photo-events + selected texts in English version.
Artists of the issue: Andrzej Dudek-Dürer, Andrzej Różycki, Gabriela Morawetz, Luis González Palma, Thomas Zika, Thomas Flechtner, Vlodymira Parafianok, Carlos Betancourt, Nicolai Howalt, Piotr Tomczyk, Witkacy, Leszek Żurek, Natalia LL, Magdalena Kulawiak, Eugène Atget
Authors of the texts: Krzysztof Jurecki, Marek Janczyk, Iwona Święch, Bogdan Konopka, Ireneusz Zjeżdżałka, Peter V. Brinkemper, Dimitry Korol, Pedro Vélez, Stefan Czyzewski, Adam Sobota, Ignas Kazakevičius, Piotr Chojnacki, Justyna Ryczek, Karolina Lewandowska, Maciej Szymanowicz