Polyphony of Images
A Night of Cutting-Edge Contemporary Art from Poland:
Video, Performance, and Other Media
one-night exhibition
presented by the Polish Cultural Institute
as part of the
De Lamar Mansion Centennial Salon of Arts & Ideas
at the Consulate General of Poland in New York
233 Madison Avenue at 37th Street
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 6 PM – midnight
Toasts to the Artists at 8 & 10 PM
The event is free and open to the public
Please present your photo ID at the entrance
Photo by Bart Sadowski, „Twoj Dom” |
Azorro
Cezary Bodzianowski
Rafal Bujnowski
Bogna Burska
Aneta Grzeszykowska
& Jan Smaga
Ewa Harabasz
Elzbieta Jablonska
Agnieszka Kalinowska
Katarzyna Kozyra
Igor Krenz
Zofia Kulik
Dominik Lejman
Zbigniew Libera
Joanna Malinowska
Przemyslaw Moskal
Anna Niesterowicz
Jozef Robakowski
Jadwiga Sawicka
Dominika Skutnik
Christian Tomaszewski
Maciej Toporowicz
Monika Weiss
Monika Wiechowska
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Julita Wojcik
Xawery Wolski
Piotr Wyrzykowski
Artur Zmijewski |
Polyphony of Images – A Night of Cutting-Edge Contemporary Art from Poland: Video, Performance, and Other Media, curated by Monika Fabijanska, art historian and director of the Polish Cultural Institute, will present the works of over 30 of Poland’s best contemporary artists on three floors of New York’s magnificent gem of Beaux-Arts style architecture, the De Lamar Mansion at 37th and Madison.
The viewer will be able to
explore the labyrinth of the mansion’s elegant rooms and find works by
Poland’s best-known artists as well as many emerging talents. Some of
the artists, many of whom will be present, live and work in Poland,
while others have become New Yorkers. This unique survey will include
video, objects, drawings, paintings, installations, and performance.
Many of the works have never been shown in New York.
This one-night exhibition is one of nine
consecutive evenings that make up the
De Lamar Mansion Centennial
Salon of Arts & Ideas at
the Consulate General of Poland in
New
York. This multi-media program, running from October 14 to 22,
celebrates the 100th anniversary of the mansion that is now home to
the Polish Consulate, a residence built 1906 by architect C.P.H.
Gilbert for copper tycoon Joseph Raphael De Lamar, and which later
housed the National Democratic Club for 50 years before the Polish
government purchased it in 1973.
The De Lamar Mansion
Centennial Salon of Arts & Ideas
both celebrates the mansion’s centennial and
honors
New York as a mecca for
creative people. It features, in the course of its nine evenings, a
host of artists and intellectuals, from filmmaker
David
Lynch,
jazz trumpeter
Tomasz
Stanko,
and Academy Award winning composer
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
to
playwright
Janusz
Glowacki,
New York
Times
Writer-at-Large
Roger
Cohen,
and writer
Lawrence
Weschler,
director of the NY Institute for the Humanities and the Chicago
Humanities Festival. The grand finale
is a
public architectural projection on the building’s façade by the
L.A.-based multi-media artist and independent projection designer
Bart Kresa.
Additional information and press materials: Stephanie Steiker: 917.640.2122, steiker@hotmail.com
Special thanks to POTOCKI VODKA
>>> COMPLETE PROGRAM OF
THE DE LAMAR MANSION CENTENNIAL SALON OF ARTS & IDEAS
OCTOBER 14 - 22
