Two seminars investigating the contemporary artistic scene in Poland and reflecting on the city of Warsaw and its transformations
The seminars have been organized within the ambit of the exhibition The Dream of Warsaw, curated by Gabi Scardi, running from 29 May to 31 July at the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere and featuring works by 10 Polish artists that explore the visible or concealed reality of Warsaw: a city that today is complex, fragmentary, diversified, contradictory, but charged with an extraordinary potential for transformation.
A Tour of the Monuments in Warsaw
Tuesday 2 July, 18.30
MAXXI B.A.S.E – Graziella Lonardi Buontempo Hall– admittance free subject to availability
The title of the seminar paraphrases that of the essay by the artist Robert Smithson, A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, in which the entire city is described as an exhibition of cotemporary art.
The debate in fact focuses on a series of public art projects associated with Warsaw, in particular those of the Brodno sculpture park, conceived by Pawel Althamer, and the Festival Warsaw under Construction, organized by the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art.
welcome
Hanru Hou Artistic Director MAXXI
speakers
Gabi Scardi Curator and art critic
Sebastian Cichocki Curator Warsaw Museum of Modern Art
Previous seminar
Tuesday 10 June, h18.30 | Shadow Architecture. Art, economics and informal spaces in Warsaw
Two seminars investigating the contemporary artistic scene in Poland and reflecting on the city of Warsaw and its transformations
The seminars have been organized within the ambit of the exhibition The Dream of Warsaw, curated by Gabi Scardi, running from 29 May to 31 July at the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere and featuring works by 10 Polish artists that explore the visible or concealed reality of Warsaw: a city that today is complex, fragmentary, diversified, contradictory, but charged with an extraordinary potential for transformation.
A Tour of the Monuments in Warsaw
Tuesday 2 July, 18.30
MAXXI B.A.S.E – Graziella Lonardi Buontempo Hall– admittance free subject to availability
The title of the seminar paraphrases that of the essay by the artist Robert Smithson, A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, in which the entire city is described as an exhibition of cotemporary art.
The debate in fact focuses on a series of public art projects associated with Warsaw, in particular those of the Brodno sculpture park, conceived by Pawel Althamer, and the Festival Warsaw under Construction, organized by the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art.
welcome
Hanru Hou Artistic Director MAXXI
speakers
Gabi Scardi Curator and art critic
Sebastian Cichocki Curator Warsaw Museum of Modern Art
Previous seminar
Tuesday 10 June, h18.30 | Shadow Architecture. Art, economics and informal spaces in Warsaw