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To Whom Does the Cosmos Belong?<\/span>\u00a0is the first exhibition of the works of Zygmunt Rytka to have been realised by utilising the late artist\u2019s digitised archive. The structural starting point for the exhibition is the\u00a0<\/span>Photovision<\/span>\u00a0series, the main part of which was created between 1978\u20131983. This was a period spanning the end of the Gierek era, with its attempts at creating a socialist consumer society; subsequent strikes and the struggle for the legalisation of the Solidarity labour movement; and the declaration and imposition of martial law in Poland, accompanied by increasing propaganda and manipulation of mass media through information channels controlled by the regime. During this time, Rytka embarked on a project oriented around photographing his television screen. He took more than 5,000 pictures from this vantage, the majority of which have never been published. These photographs capture not only the political and cultural climate of Poland in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but they also transcend literality, forming a stream of unsettling images, as if unspooling from the collective consciousness of modern society.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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<\/span>Other works on display also relate to the interplay between government and society within the context of media, propaganda, and manipulation. Among them is a little-known series of photographs titled\u00a0<\/span>1981<\/span>, depicting individuals reading newspapers carrying bulletins from Communist Party meetings. We do not see the readers\u2019 faces\u2014instead only their hands, cigarettes, silhouettes, coats, and hats. It is these human contours that form a frame for the propagandistic content carried by the newspapers. The exhibition also includes a fragment of Rytka\u2019s film and video work.\u00a0<\/span>Fiat 126p<\/span>, from 1976, is a satirical film in which the artist portrays the \u2018Toddler,\u2019 as the iconic car was nicknamed in Poland, as a fetishistic object of sexual desire.\u00a0<\/span>Retransmission<\/span>, a filmic collage assembled in video format in 1988, is a record of the period\u2019s zeitgeist, and of the rhetoric and iconography of government-controlled mass media during the Polish People\u2019s Republic, with the artist\u2019s commentary.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Organizer: Photomonth<\/strong>

Exhibition partner: National Museum in Krakow<\/strong>{break_page}<\/p>\r\n

The exhibition\u2019s eponymous question, adopted from one of Rytka\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Photovision<\/span>\u00a0frames, can be heard as a call to independently gather and process information; to take the camera into one\u2019s own hands. At the same time, the images in the cycle\u2019s archive channel contemporary anxieties about the future of humanity. At a time when we are increasingly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios, it becomes necessary to ask, \u2018Does the cosmos, and our life itself, belong to us?\u2019<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Zygmunt Rytka<\/span>\u00a0(1947\u20132018) was an intermedia artist associated with the Polish neo-avant-garde movement of the 1970s, and later with the milieu of independent art in the 1980s. He was the author of photographic series, experimental films, and video works, as well as, after 2000, installations and objects. The late artist\u2019s archive is currently being developed by the Foundation for Visual Arts in Krakow and the Soko\u0142owsko IN SITU Contemporary Art Foundation. The results of this ongoing work on the Rytka archive can be seen at zygmuntrytka.pl\/en<\/a>.

Curator: Karol Hordziej<\/strong>
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Do kogo nale\u017cy kosmos?<\/span>\u00a0\u2013 to pierwsza wystawa prac Zygmunta Rytki zrealizowana po jego \u015bmierci z wykorzystaniem opracowanego cyfrowo archiwum artysty. Punkt wyj\u015bcia konstrukcji wystawy stanowi cykl\u00a0<\/span>Fotowizja<\/span>, kt\u00f3rego g\u0142\u00f3wna cz\u0119\u015b\u0107 powsta\u0142a w latach 1978\u20131983. By\u0142 to okres obejmuj\u0105cy ko\u0144c\u00f3wk\u0119 gierkowskiej idei stworzenia socjalistycznego spo\u0142ecze\u0144stwa konsumpcyjnego, p\u00f3\u017aniejszych strajk\u00f3w, walki o\u00a0legalizacj\u0119 Solidarno\u015bci oraz wprowadzenie stanu wojennego w Polsce, a tak\u017ce czas nasilenia propagandy i medialnej manipulacji w kana\u0142ach informacyjnych sterowanych przez rz\u0105dz\u0105cych. W tym czasie Rytka rozpocz\u0105\u0142 realizacj\u0119 projektu opartego na\u00a0fotografowaniu ekranu telewizora. Wykona\u0142 w ten spos\u00f3b ponad pi\u0119\u0107 tysi\u0119cy zdj\u0119\u0107, w\u00a0wi\u0119kszo\u015bci nigdy nie publikowanych. Fotografie te nie tylko ukazuj\u0105 klimat polityczny i\u00a0kulturalny ko\u0144c\u00f3wki lat 70. i pocz\u0105tku lat 80., ale te\u017c wykraczaj\u0105 daleko poza dos\u0142owno\u015b\u0107, uk\u0142adaj\u0105c si\u0119 w strumie\u0144 niepokoj\u0105cych obraz\u00f3w, jak gdyby wyci\u0105gni\u0119tych ze zbiorowej \u015bwiadomo\u015bci nowoczesnego spo\u0142ecze\u0144stwa.<\/span><\/p>","text":"

Pozosta\u0142e prace zamieszczone na wystawie r\u00f3wnie\u017c odnosz\u0105 si\u0119 do relacji mi\u0119dzy w\u0142adz\u0105 i spo\u0142ecze\u0144stwem w kontek\u015bcie medi\u00f3w, propagandy i manipulacji. Znajduje si\u0119 w\u015br\u00f3d nich ma\u0142o znany cykl fotografii pod tytu\u0142em\u00a0<\/span>1981<\/span>, przedstawiaj\u0105cych postaci czytaj\u0105ce gazety z aktualnymi doniesieniami z obrad partii. Nie widzimy na nich twarzy czytaj\u0105cych, tylko d\u0142onie, papierosy, ciemne sylwetki, p\u0142aszcze i kapelusze. To w\u0142a\u015bnie te ludzkie kontury tworz\u0105 ram\u0119 dla propagandowych tre\u015bci zamieszczonych w gazetach. Wystawa obejmuje tak\u017ce fragment tw\u00f3rczo\u015bci artysty z zakresu filmu i wideo.\u00a0<\/span>Fiat 126p<\/span>\u00a0to ironiczny film pochodz\u0105cy z 1976 roku, w kt\u00f3rym autor w popartowskim duchu przedstawia produkowanego od 1973 roku malucha jako obiekt seksualnego po\u017c\u0105dania. Zmontowana w formacie wideo w 1988 roku praca pod tytu\u0142em\u00a0<\/span>Retransmisja<\/span>\u00a0jest filmowym odpowiednikiem\u00a0<\/span>Fotowizji<\/span>, zapisem atmosfery tamtego czasu oraz j\u0119zyka PRL-owskich mass medi\u00f3w wraz z autorskim komentarzem.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Organizator: Miesi\u0105c Fotografii<\/strong>

Partner wystawy: Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie\u00a0<\/strong>{break_page}<\/p>\r\n

Tytu\u0142owe pytanie, zaczerpni\u0119te z jednego z kadr\u00f3w zawartych w cyklu\u00a0<\/span>Fotowizja<\/span>, potraktowa\u0107 mo\u017cna jako wezwanie do samodzielnego gromadzenia i przetwarzania informacji, do wzi\u0119cia aparatu w swoje r\u0119ce. Jednocze\u015bnie obrazy znajduj\u0105ce si\u0119 w\u00a0archiwum tego projektu rezonuj\u0105 z bie\u017c\u0105cymi niepokojami dotycz\u0105cymi przysz\u0142o\u015bci ludzko\u015bci. W czasach, gdy coraz cz\u0119\u015bciej rozmawiamy o apokaliptycznych scenariuszach, aktualne staje si\u0119 pytanie, czy kosmos i nasze \u017cycie nale\u017c\u0105 do nas?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Zygmunt Rytka<\/span>\u00a0(1947\u20132018) \u2013 artysta intermedialny zwi\u0105zany ze \u015brodowiskiem polskiej neoawangardy lat 70. oraz p\u00f3\u017aniejszym \u015brodowiskiem sztuki niezale\u017cnej lat 80. Autor cykli fotograficznych, film\u00f3w eksperymentalnych i prac wideo, a tak\u017ce powsta\u0142ych po roku 2000 instalacji oraz obiekt\u00f3w. Opracowaniem archiwum artysty zajmuje si\u0119 obecnie Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych w Krakowie oraz Fundacja Sztuki Wsp\u00f3\u0142czesnej IN SITU w Soko\u0142owsku. Efekty pracy nad archiwum zobaczy\u0107 mo\u017cna na stronie internetowej pod adresem zygmuntrytka.pl<\/a>

Kurator: Karol Hordziej<\/strong>
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