GALERIA 1
Ars Baltica
I International Triennial of Photographic Art
- Return to the Past - the End of Utopia?
------------Exhibition opening: 12.09, 6 p.m. and on view until 2.11
------------Curator: Enno Kaufhold, co-operation: Marek Grygiel
Martin Zelmenis (Latvia)
Freedom Street - Or So They Seem To Call it, 1992
Exhibition 'Return to the past' presents different ways of artistic declaration, it is not a purely photographic presentation. Nevertheless, photography was used here as the most important element.
Exhibition presents works created in traditional ways (Antanas Sutkus from Lithuania and Esko Manniko from Finland), photographs transformed, coloured and placed one on another (Pia Arke, Dane born from Greenland), produced works as well as collagues and photo-montages (Estonian Peeter Maria Laurits and Lativian Martin Zelmenis). Russian Wladimir Kuprijanow and Germans Klaus Elle and Winzer Kluglein have created photo installations. Line Waelgaard from Norway has treated photographs like classical painting, placing her works in stylised, oval frames. Wojciech Prazmowski, apart from sepia photo-collagues, exhibits photo objects reminding spatial sculpture more than classical photography. On the other hand, Swedish artist Bengt Olof Johanssen presents his large compositions made from graphic foil, which are the effects of computer techniques.
Antanas Sutkus (Lithuania)
Country Children Competition to the Art School
50 x 50cm, 1966
Line Waelgaard (Norway)
Sabat Mother, 155 x 388, 1991
Wojciech Prazmowski (Poland)
Letter from Portugal, 1994
22,5 x 14,5 cm
It is a true rarity to see such great variety of forms in one exhibition where photography predominates as the main element. Perhaps this fact constitutes a distinctive feature of postmodernism? Perhaps the contemporary artist does not want to be classified any more.
Apart from this, the exhibition can be interpreted as a proposal integrating trends in arts and visual arts in particular.
Wladimir Kuprijanow (Russia)
Part of the Rodinows, 1991
190 x 90 x 90 x 90cm
Bengt Olof Johansson (Sweden)
Groupconference in Veb coalmine
"Martin Hoop" in Zwikau
Organisers:
Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Schleswig - Holstein Land in the Federal Republic of Germany
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw
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