" BLACK AND WHITE " (group exhibition for 20th years of AT Gallery)
Joanna Adamczewska, Krzysztof Baranowski, Jakub Bąkowski, Marcin Berdyszak, Sławomir Brzoska,
Adam Garnek, Jerzy Hejnowicz, Joanna Hoffmann, Jacek Jagielski, Przemysław Jasielski,
Leszek Knaflewski, Jarosław Kozłowski, Wojciech Kujawski, Piotr Kurka, Wojciech Łazarczyk,
Hanna Łuczak, Danuta Mączak, Agata Michowska, Cezary Ostrowski, Andrzej Pepłoński,
Barbara Sobańska, Sławomir Sobczak, Krzysztof Sołowiej, Andrzej Syska, Zbigniew Taszycki,
Anna Tyczyńska, Marek Wasilewski, Tomasz Wilmański
June 2002
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The
“BLACK-AND-WHITE” exhibition was organized as part of the twentieth
anniversary of the AT Gallery and aimed to present works of
30 artists from Poznań; all those who had participated in the
programme of the Gallery since 1990. In its substance and idea,
the exhibition called directly or indirectly on such ideas
as monochromaticity, opposition, contrast, minimum-maximum
or on universalism inherent in fundamental ethical and aesthetic
categories of our times. The spectrum of interpretation was
very wide. The show presupposed total arbitrariness of subject-matter,
form and execution in its treatment of the initial slogan proposed
by Tomasz Wilmanski the curator. In a sense the concept of
“black-and-white” was meant as a provocation to make us ponder
upon basic dilemmas that shape human relations /for instance,
our understanding of such seemingly obvious definitions as
good and evil or life and death/. It also made direct references
to problems for centuries present in the very matter of art.
The works at the exhibition, usually small size, contained characteristic formal and mental
features present in the existing works of the particular artists.
The “BLACK-AND-WHITE” exhibition was also an attempt to summarise
the exhibiting practice that the AT Gallery had carried out
in Poznań for twenty years.
curator of exhibition Tomasz Wilmanski |
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