artistic turmoil in the streets of Katowice will be created by Piotr Lutyński and his ‘Second Life’
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The BWA Contemporary Art Gallery has launched a year-long project, READY, STEADY, ART!, a series of art events throughout the city of Katowice aiming to creatively animate its inhabitants.
The scope of the project is two-dimensional and includes complementary actions: on the one hand, happenings, performances and events by guest artists, on the other — educational-motivational workshops.
The goal is to create situations that contrast reality, stimulating imagination and encouraging reflection our major concerns: identity, culture, ecology and more. Children, youth and the elderly will be involved in the educational-motivational part of the project. Workshop-like meetings with artists will show them various forms of artistic expression, and engage them in the design and realisation of the projects, thus developing their independent artistic direction.
READY, STEADY, ART! — actions in Katowice urban space started in August As we follow the same route every day, we slowly blend in with the landscape and stop responding to external stimuli. To prevent this, the BWA Contemporary...
‘Greenery Swapject’ is working — join us and exchange or give away plants I would like to realise an artistic action which could trigger positive social behaviour. My goal is to set up a space that will become a venue for...
23th July — Monika Goetzendorf-Grabowska — ‘Art-filled sandpit’ A sandpit — a magical playground and venue for meetings. Fun with sand, building castles and other structures are one of the most natural children...
5th and 6th July — Paweł Kula — ‘Observing the New World’ The Earth has proved to be the only planet friendly to us so far. Its view from the universe is a picture that unites the whole humanity and encompasses...
30th June — join Krzysztof Morcinek and create a ‘Spatial Portrait’ in the Silesian Insurgents' Park This workshop is organised within the READY, STEADY, ART! Project and will take the form of an enjoyable activity at the city park. The arrangement of...
1st June — ‘Pipephone’ (Rurofon) — a multi-channel installation will be constructed on the Miarki Square in Katowice This site specific installation design makes use of (audio) space of the city, as well as of natural processes, such as a water flow (a fountain), at the...
art invites you to ‘drop by’ and see the action of Ignacy Czwartos entitled ‘A Painter in Urban Space’ 18th May , 10 a.m. and 16 p.m. Ignacy Czwartos is a painter, a graphic artist, co-founder of Otwarta Pracownia (Open Workshop) Association and...
Project ‘Second Life’ was launched in New York in 2007. Lutyński's idea — How to bring a dead deer back to life in a big city? — started as a two-week long performance (a stag's head was mounted on the artist's torso, likening him to a mythical centaur). The world seen over a deer's head changes our viewpoint, behaviour and other people's reactions, just like when we put on a punk jacket or buy a new car. The experiment proved successful — the deer became alive. The two worlds had merged.
11th May, 10 a.m. and 16 p.m.
Piotr Lutyński works in sculpture, painting, installations, performance and multimedia shows, he also creates objects and plays experimental music. Among his works are audiovisual shows featuring live animals alongside painting compositions, sculptures, poetry and music. Animals have become co-authors of his artistic actions since the late 1990s. Lutyński believes that live animals help the audience open up to the objects on display, they break down the artificiality of gallery events. He performs total actions in city space, combining interdisciplinary concerts with artistic actions (New York, a tour in Germany).
Piotr Lutyński is part of the ‘Otwarta Pracownia’ (Open Workshop) Association in Kraków. His works can be found in the National Museum in Kraków, ‘Znaki Czasu’ Polish national collection, the Foksal Gallery, the Muzalewska Gallery, Andrzej Starmach's, Krzysztof Chwedczuk and Maciej Prus's collections.
