Art

SITE Santa Fe,
the Association of Cultural Integration in Warsaw, and
the Polish Cultural Institute in New York
present:

ZBIGNIEW ROGALSKI & MICHAŁ BUDNY

in SITE Santa Fe’s 7th International Biennial

Lucky Number Seven
Curated by Lance Fung

JUNE 22 – OCTOBER 26, 2008

SITE Santa Fe
1606 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
Hours: Wed.–Sat. 10–5, Fri. 10–7, Sun. 12–5
Admission: $10 adults; $5 students & seniors, Free: members, free on Fridays. Tel. 505.989.1199

A major event on par with such renowned exhibitions as the Whitney Biennial, SITE Santa Fe has become an integral event for contemporary art aficionados, attracting tens of thousands of visitors from around the world. Past six biennials’ curators, including Bruce Ferguson, Francesco Bonami, Rosa Martinez, Dave Hickey, Robert Storr, and Klaus Ottmann, either arrived as or have subsequently become superstars in the world of contemporary art. The 7th SITE Santa Fe Biennial invites 22 artists to develop site specific projects expressly for the Biennial, among them Zbigniew Rogalski and Michał Budny, who will work as an artistic team.

Zbigniew Rogalski (b. 1974) is among the most interesting Polish artists of the generation that made its debut in 2000, the year in which his solo exhibition took place at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw. Rogalski's painting effectively oscillates between the photo-realist and the unrestrained painter's imagination. He strives to paint a specific modern experience of the world: flickering, fleeting, and constantly less and less obvious. MORE

Michał Budny (b.1976) creates sophisticated, meticulous reconstructions of objects and shapes taken from the immediate environment (postcards, mobile phones, CD players etc.) Small, light objects made of cardboard and other kinds of paper, often yellowed with age, are strikingly noble and reserved in their nearly abstract form. They seem to be timeless models of things, devoid of utilitarian value which become the quintessence of form and time combined. In recent works, Budny cuts out and glues together natural phenomena, that do not have a specific physical form, such as voice, rain or fog. MORE

Co-presented by the Association of Cultural Integration in Warsaw, associated with Raster Gallery, and the Polish Cultural Institute in New York.

The Museum of Modern Art and
the Polish Cultural Institute
present:

A SELECTION OF POLISH JAZZ FILM POSTERS

AS PART OF JAZZ SCORE – MoMA's CELEBRATION OF THE BEST ORIGINAL JAZZ SCORES FOR FILM
FROM THE 1950s TO THE PRESENT

Byl Jazz

Lech Majewski, a poster for Feliks Falk's And All That Jazz (1981)

APRIL 16 – SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The Museum of Modern Art
The Roy and Niuta Titus 1 and 2 lobbies
11 West 53th Street, New York, NY 10019
Wed.-Mon.: 10:30 AM - 5:30 PM, Fri.: 10:30 AM - 8:00 PM. Closed on Tuesday.
Admission: free with film tickets; MoMA's admission: $20, $16 seniors, $12 students (includes MoMA galleries and films),
Free on Fridays, 4:00-8:00 PM. More information: www.moma.org, 212.708.9400

The Museum of Modern Art’s Jazz Score includes a broad representation of Polish films, many featuring the music of KRZYSZTOF KOMEDA, among other FILMS with music by Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Modern Jazz Quartet, Thelonius Monk, Toru Takemitsu, and Wynton Marsalis; two live performances – one of them being A CONCERT Tribute to Krzysztof Komeda by the Tomasz Stanko Quartet with special guest Billy Harper – and an international gallery exhibition that features POLISH POSTERS for films with jazz scores, among many other artifacts.

The gallery exhibition of Jazz Score celebrates the sophistication and innovation that postwar jazz has brought to the art of live-action and animated films. Jazz continues to have a dramatic impact on the visual design of film trailers and the graphics of film promotion.

Among international works, a wide selection of Polish posters is presented: for Knife In the Water byJan Lenica, for There Was Jazz by Lech Majewski, for Blow-Up by Waldemar Swierzy, Innocent Sorcerers byWojciech Fangor, Dilemma byMaciej Hibner, Black Orpheus byAnna Huskowska, Taxi Driver byAndrzej Klimowski, Elevator to the Gallows by Roman Cieslewicz, and Barrier by Leszek Holdanowicz.

Among the more than 100 films one can see masterpieces by Roman Polanski, Jerzy Skolimowski and Miroslaw Kijowicz with music by Krzysztof Komeda. A Polanski film with music by Chico Hamilton and a film by Zbigniew Rybczynski with music by Zbigniew Namyslowski will also be screened.

>>> MORE ON THE EXHIBITION
>>> TOMASZ STANKO CONCERT OF MUSIC BY KRZYSZTOF KOMEDA
>>> POLISH FILMS – DETAILED PROGRAM
>>> JAZZ SCORE FULL PROGRAM

The Polish Cultural Institute in New York,
a-i-r laboratory at the Centre for Contemporary Art “Ujazdowski Castle” in Warsaw, Poland, and
Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA, present:

EWA LUCZAK

artist-in-residence

POLAND-U.S. ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE EXCHANGE PROGRAM

Ewa Luczak, Radio Days, 2006, video stills

September 1 - December 1, 2008

Headlands Center for the Arts
944 Fort Barry, Sausalito, CA 94965
tel. (415) 331-2787. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10-5, Sun. 12-5. Admission free.

EWA LUCZAK, b. 1975, debuted with a solo exhibition of her diploma work Radio Days in a project room of the Zacheta National Art Gallery in Warsaw in 2007. This video installation is a record of the everyday life of an ill elderly woman and her son, filmed simultaneously from a few cameras in the small space of their apartment. It shows the existence of old people who are alienated from the world and limited to prayer and a passive existence controlled by the media through bio-political mechanisms. The characters are deprived of participation in media and political discourse because of their poverty, age, and lack of education. The artist does not allow for easy judgments or a distancing of the audience from the subject; her installation engages the audience in an uneasy confrontation that allows for empathy.

Ewa Luczak lives and works in Warsaw, where in 2006 she graduated from the Studio of Audiovisual Space in the Department of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, a program led by the famous Professor Grzegorz Kowalski, teacher of such artists as Pawel Althamer, Katarzyna Kozyra, and Artur Zmijewski.

The Poland-U.S. Artists-in-Residence Exchange Program was initiated by the Polish Cultural Institute in New York between Location One, New York, NY; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; Spaces, Cleveland, OH; and a-i-r laboratory at the Centre for Contemporary Art “Ujazdowski Castle”, Warsaw, Poland.

Ewa Luczak’s residency is presented in association with the Polish Cultural Institute in New York within its Poland-U.S. Artists-In-Residence Exchange Program, organized by a-i-r laboratory at the Centre for Contemporary Art “Ujazdowski Castle” in Warsaw, Poland, and Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA.