Katarzyna Kobro i Władysław Strzemiński: w poszukiwaniu realnej utopii

• Authors: Suchan Jarosław , Ziębińska-Lewandowska Karolina

Title variants

EN

Katarzyna Kobro and WLadysLaw Strzemiński: in search of a real utopia

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The text, prepared on the occasion of the exhibition "A Polish Avant-garde: Katarzyna Kobro and Władysław Strzemiński" presented at the Pompidou Centre in 2018, captures the artwork of both artists as an attempt to realize a "real utopia". On the one hand, it points to the utopian attitude of Kobro and Strzemiński, on the other hand, however, to the realism present in it. It combines the utopian character with their conviction that artistic activity can contribute to the social change and to the establishment of a new better order, realism – with the awareness that every era, every time demands its own, still new answers to the question of what this utopian order would look like and with the intuition that the advent of a better world will not be achieved as a result of a one-off revolution, but rather as the effect of gradual transformations of both the material reality and the way people think. Thus according to the authors, the concept of "real utopia" understood in this way can be used as a tool to reinterpret the achievements of the couple of Polish avant-guard artists.

Keywords

PL

strzemiński; kobro; wystawa

• Publisher: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Władysława Strzemińskiego w Łodzi
• Journal: Powidoki
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 2: Re-konstruktywizm
• Pages: 148-155

Contributors

author

Suchan Jarosław

• Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi

author

Ziębińska-Lewandowska Karolina

Identifiers

ISSN

2657-652X