Polish version only
Publication year: 2018
Pages: 124
Price: 40 30 pln
Józef Robakowski speaks about Witkacy in his movie, in his photographs, videos and installations. The exhibition presented as part of the second ediction of project „Art Archives” shows the works of the main creator of the neo-avant-garde rebellion seen in reference to the innovative artistic practice of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, „the great eccentric” and the key figure of the 20th century art. The background to Robakowski’s works is the documentation of his private archive on Witkacy. The creator of video and photographic experiments does not hide his fascination with Witkacy’s work, which tracks back to the 1960s and his first, museological studies. The exhibition offers an insight to Robakowski’s artistic practices, in which we can find traces of his passion as Witkacy’s reasercher and enthusiast. Robakowski’s film titled „Witkacy” from 1981 is the reference here. The scenario was based upon dizzying pace of the play „Crazy Locomotive”. The archive which was gathered during the time spent working on the film, comprising of dozens of photos of the „diabolical photographer”, is juxtaposed with contemporary works of Robakowski. Witkacy’s staged to the camera „faces” are shown next to the Robakowski’s „grimaces” from his iconic series titled „My photo-videomasochisms”. Robakowski is referring to Witkiewicz’s „Multiple Portrait” in his photographs and video tapes; he paraphrases him in his installation, in which he multiples his own reflection.
