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POLAND-U.S. ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE EXCHANGE PROGRAM
Agnieszka Kalinowska,
Warsaw, Poland
@ Location One, New York, NY
Residency: SEPTEMBER 1 –
NOVEMBER 30, 2006
LOCATION ONE
26
Greene Street,
New York, NY 10013
ph (212) 334-3347, fax (212) 334-3289
Gallery hours:
Tue.-Sat. 12-6, Admission:
free
Subway: A, C, E, N, R, 6,
J, M, Z to
Canal
Street
Agnieszka
Kalinowska, Emergency Exit, 2003, video and sound installation
(1:1)
AGNIESZKA KALINOWSKA,
born in Warsaw in 1971, is one of the most versatile, prolific, and
original artists of the younger generation. She paints, makes
inflatable objects from synthetics, and makes videos, installations,
and sculptures from atypical materials (like rubber bands, confetti,
paper streamers).
She has been shown widely in group exhibitions throughout
Europe,
and is becoming well known in the U.S. Her one-person shows include
Just a Little Bit More at the
Center for Contemporary Art,
Warsaw
(2002). This haunting environment of hanging streamers that suggests
the aftermath of a New Year’s Eve party and only gradually reveals, in
clumps of streamers on the floor, what looks like expiring
party-goers, was later presented in a major exhibition of Polish women
artists called
Architectures of Gender
at the
SculptureCenter
in
New York
in 2003. “Curled into fetal positions or slouched against the wall,
Kalinowska’s figures, shaped like Louise Bourgeois’s recent rag doll
sculptures, might be sleeping or they might be dead, but they are
undeniably beautiful in their vulnerable material and spiritual
state.” - Megan Heuer, “Architectures of Gender: Contemporary
Women’s Art in Poland”,
The
Brooklyn Rail,
June-July 2003.
2004 brought Kalinowska’s first
US solo exhibition
to
the
Arizona State University Art Museum,
as well as an individual exhibition at
the
Zacheta National Art Gallery
in Warsaw,
and her videos were presented in
Brooklyn EUphoria’s
collage of European video art, curated by Alun Williams of Parker's
Box Gallery. She
was featured in a two-person exhibition with Artur Zmijewski at
Goodnight Tower in Karlskrona, Sweden,
in
2005.
In 2006
she participated in Videodyssey at
Parker’s Box in New York
and
Galerie Anne Barrault
in Paris.
Conceived and produced in partnership with the
Artist-in-Residence Program of Location One, this project has been
generously supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, the
National Centre for Culture, Poland, and the Polish Cultural
Institute, New York, and organized in
cooperation with A-I-R at the Centre for Contemporary Art “Ujazdowski
Castle”, Warsaw, Poland, as part of the POLAND-U.S.
ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE EXCHANGE PROGRAM
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