Art and life 27.01.2024
Meeting with Maria Anna Potocka around her latest book 'Art and Life'.
The Austeria Publishing House and the Villa Decius Institute for Culture would like to invite you to the Villa Decius on Wednesday 31 January at 6 p.m. for the premiere of Maria Anna Potocka's latest book "Art and Life". The meeting will be hosted by Grzegorz Jankowicz.
What is art and where does it come from? What does visuality do to us and why our individual stories depend on what we see and the images we have access to. In her latest book, Maria Anna Potocka asks the most fundamental questions about the relationship between art and life.
Joseph Beuys, Jiří Kolář, Krystian Lupa, Boris Lurie, Herta Muller, Agnieszka Osiecka, Mieczysław Porębski, Daniel Spoerri or Wisława Szymborska are just a modest excerpt from a rich catalogue of names and artworld personalities and peculiarities, which shows not only the scale of the author's involvement in the artistic field, but is also a space for seeking answers to fundamental questions about art.
To this end, Potocka traces individual artistic languages. What conclusion emerges from this investigation - based on reading art - will be discussed with the author of the book by Grzegorz Jankowicz.
The book, published by Austeria Publishing House, will be available for purchase during the event.
Admission to the meeting is free. Registration is required at: https://cutt.ly/owKSrjnV
Maria Anna Potocka - philosopher, art critic, curator. Founder of several non-commercial galleries presenting contemporary art, including PI Gallery (1976). In 2002-2010, director of Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery in Krakow. Since 2010, he has been the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK. Member of the Internationale Künstler Gremium IKG, The International Association of Art Critics AICA, International Council of Museums. Author of books and theoretical and philosophical texts (e.g. 'New Aesthetics' [2016], 'Postfeminist Woman. The Dictatorship of Women' [2022]).
Grzegorz Jankowicz - literary activist, philosopher of literature, essayist, editor, critic and translator; Doctor of Humanities. Programme director of the Conrad Festival. Juror of the Conrad Prize. Editor of the cultural section of Tygodnik Powszechny. Director of literary programmes at the Tygodnik Powszechny Foundation. He lectures at the L. Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź. He has published, among others: "What is art for? Conversations with Writers' (2013), 'Scars. Essays' (2019), ), 'Life in a Sphere. Parmigianino, Ashbery and the art of transformation' (2020).
What is art and where does it come from? What does visuality do to us and why our individual stories depend on what we see and the images we have access to. In her latest book, Maria Anna Potocka asks the most fundamental questions about the relationship between art and life.
Joseph Beuys, Jiří Kolář, Krystian Lupa, Boris Lurie, Herta Muller, Agnieszka Osiecka, Mieczysław Porębski, Daniel Spoerri or Wisława Szymborska are just a modest excerpt from a rich catalogue of names and artworld personalities and peculiarities, which shows not only the scale of the author's involvement in the artistic field, but is also a space for seeking answers to fundamental questions about art.
To this end, Potocka traces individual artistic languages. What conclusion emerges from this investigation - based on reading art - will be discussed with the author of the book by Grzegorz Jankowicz.
The book, published by Austeria Publishing House, will be available for purchase during the event.
Admission to the meeting is free. Registration is required at: https://cutt.ly/owKSrjnV
Maria Anna Potocka - philosopher, art critic, curator. Founder of several non-commercial galleries presenting contemporary art, including PI Gallery (1976). In 2002-2010, director of Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery in Krakow. Since 2010, he has been the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow MOCAK. Member of the Internationale Künstler Gremium IKG, The International Association of Art Critics AICA, International Council of Museums. Author of books and theoretical and philosophical texts (e.g. 'New Aesthetics' [2016], 'Postfeminist Woman. The Dictatorship of Women' [2022]).
Grzegorz Jankowicz - literary activist, philosopher of literature, essayist, editor, critic and translator; Doctor of Humanities. Programme director of the Conrad Festival. Juror of the Conrad Prize. Editor of the cultural section of Tygodnik Powszechny. Director of literary programmes at the Tygodnik Powszechny Foundation. He lectures at the L. Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź. He has published, among others: "What is art for? Conversations with Writers' (2013), 'Scars. Essays' (2019), ), 'Life in a Sphere. Parmigianino, Ashbery and the art of transformation' (2020).