PHOTOMONTH IN KRAKOW — 2012
REMAKE. THE PAINTER AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER
REMAKE. THE PAINTER AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER – A MEETING WITH POLA DWURNIK AND TADEUSZ ROLKE
Photo by Tadeusz Rolke, Remake
The photographic project Remake by Tadeusz Rolke and Pola Dwurnik refers to a session in 1984, when Rolke photographed Kora Jackowska in the studio of Pola’s father, Edward Dwurnik. This time the scene is Pola’s painting studio, and a multi-level game of roles and references is conducted with her own images. Remake is a performance in which the artist "uses" her work for a second time, subversively switching their meanings or putting them in parentheses, allowing the photographer to use them to create a new reality.
The Remake series has now become one of the most important trends in Tadeusz Rolke’s photographic work – portraits of visual artists. Over the past 50 years, Rolke has photographed Alina Szapocznikow, Henryk StaĹźewski, Edward KrasiĹski, Joseph Beuys, Leon Tarasewicz, PaweĹ Althamer, Monika Sosnowska, Marcin Maciejowski, and many others. Pola Dwurnik is the youngest artist on this list.
Tadeusz Rolke – photographic arts, forerunner of Polish reportage photography, member of the Association of Polish Art Photographers. Born in 1929 in Warsaw. He studied art history at the Catholic University of Lublin and Warsaw University. Professionally, he began to take photographs in the 50s. He has published in the weeklies "Stolica" and "Ĺwiat", and the monthlies "Polska" and the legendary "Ty i Ja"; he has also photographed fashion for "Przekrój". He documented the life of the avant-garde artistic circles associated with the Krzywe KoĹo Gallery and Gallery Foksal. In 1970 he emigrated to West Germany, where he created many photographic cycles. He returned to Poland in 1980. In the 80s, her worked for the Hamburg art magazine "Art" and the fashion magazine "Brigitte". In the 90s, he worked with "Magazyn Gazety Wyborczej". He lectures at the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Warsaw and Warsaw’s Dr. Marian Schmidt School of Photography. He co-founded the publishing house edition.fotoTAPETA. He has had several dozen solo exhibitions. In 2009 he received the Glora Artis gold medal.
Pola Dwurnik – painter, visual artist. Born in 1979 in Warsaw. She learnt painting and drawing in the studios of her parents – Edward Dwurnik, a painter, and Teresa Gierzynska, a photographer. She graduated in art history at the University of Warsaw. She received a scholarship and residency at the Stiftung Laurenz-Haus in Basel and was a resident at the mobile art platform The Knot in Berlin, Warsaw and Bucharest. She creates large format oil paintings – her most recognisable series are Banknotes, Nocturnes, and – highly visible in the Remake project – Main Series. Pola Dwurnik’s drawing books have been published by Raster Gallery, the Zamek Ujazdowski Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, and Christoph Merian Verlag in Basel. She regularly cultivates traditional postal art in the Message from Edie S. Mail Art Series.
She lives and works in Berlin and Warsaw.
REMAKE. THE PAINTER AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER – A MEETING WITH POLA DWURNIK AND TADEUSZ ROLKE
24.052012, 18:00 10.06.2012, 17:00
Led by: Marta Eloy-Cichocka
International Cultural Centre, Rynek GĹówny 25
