The international art world ‘discovered’ Dan Perjovschi in 1999 when his drawings were displayed in the Romanian Pavilion at the … More
Category: Eastern Europe
Sounding the Body Electric, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź – June to August 2012
Agata Pyzik’s review of the show from the August edition of The Wire is here. Polish readers might find these … More
Chance Operations – an extract from Dźwięki elektrycznego ciała
This is an extract from Dźwięki elektrycznego ciała, an exhibition catalogue accompanying this show at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, … More
‘Laughing at My Head’ – The ‘Immature’ Art of Neue Bieremiennost
I was commissioned to write a piece about the early years of artist Mirosław Bałka and his colleagues when they … More
Two books on Polish graphic design …
Against All Odds. Polish Graphic Design 1919-1949 (also published in Polish as Nie gęsi. Polskie projektowanie graficzne 1919–1949) by Piotr … More
Architecture and the Image of the Future in the People’s Republic of Poland
The realm of freedom actually begins only where labour which is determined by necessity and mundane considerations ceases … Karl … More
Paradise Lost?
This piece was published in Piktogram in 2005. ♦ The Art of Home In 1956 a member of the British … More
Roman Cieślewicz, Changement de Climat, 1976-77
In the 1970s Cieślewicz turned his scalpel on the magazines which had given him employment in Paris in the 1960s. … More
Sacrifice, Madness, Ruins and Other Polish Dreams
This essay was written for the catalogue accompanying The Power of Fantasy. Modern and Contemporary Art from Poland at BOZAR … More
Dlouhý’s ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour’ (occasional notes on posters)
Bedřich Dlouhý was an occasional poster artist and book designer. Better known as a surrealist painter and a member of … More
