Meeting by the sculpture pt. 3
On 11 February come for a meeting with prof. Agata Jakubowska by “Żagiew” [Torch] (1962) by Alina Szapocznikow.
At the end of the 1950s beauty of a female body was the primary interest of the artist. Displayed at the exhibition, Bellissima II is brimming with sensual intensity and a biological character of form. The sculpture is an attempt at capturing female body that is undergoing transformation, especially in its owner’s consciousness. Art critic Jerzy Stajuda described “Torch” as “a wonderful new version of Nike”, an allegory of war and fire put in organic forms of the element, bringing back memories of the ruined city during the Uprising. At the meeting with the scholar of Szapocznikow’s art, Agata Jakubwska, we will explore the contexts of Szapocznikow’s sculptures on display.
Agata Jakubowska – art historian, professor at the Institute of Art History UAM in Poznań where she works as the director of Institute of the History of Modern Art. She was a lecturer of gender studies at the University of Warsaw and Jagiellonian University. She is an author of numerous books, for example, Alina Szapocznikow. Awkward objects (ed., Warszawa: Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej, 2011), and articles on women artists and gender in modern art. Currently, she is working on the history of exhibitions of women artists in Poland and writing a monograph on Maria Pinińska-Bereś.
Meeting by the sculpture is a series of mini-lectures in the exhibition space, organized on Thursday evenings. Prominent specialists (curators, historians and theoreticians of art) will discuss the works in the collection of the Królikarnia’s Sculpture Museum. They have exceptional knowledge about works and authors on display.
The meeting is a part of a programme accompanying the exhibition “Zbigniew Libera: It’s not my fault that this sculpture rubbed againts me”.
During the lecture, we will watch a fragment of a film Polish Modern Art, dir. Konstanty Gordon, commentary: Jadwiga Jarnuszkiewiczowa, 1963.
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