Allotments inspire artists, who photograph them, film them, and organise happenings in them. The allotments presented in the exhibitions are a photographic series titled  Dzieło-działka. The art of the allotment by Aleksander Duraj, and tell an intimate story about building relationships. At the same time, the photographer enters into a dialogue with the works of graphic designer and photographer Jan Bujnowski, who in his black-and-white cycle focused on the typology of allotment architecture, creating a kind of inventory of the surrounding iconosphere. Meanwhile, the artist Mathilde Papapietro, living in Poland in the early 90s, explores gates as abstract images. In her collection of over 400 photographs of gates, which is called Portals (Portails), she emphasises the colourful artifice of the allotment world in contrast to the natural world.

 

In a book presenting the results of several years of ethnographic research project  Dzieło-działka. The art of the allotment, among a dozen authors, Dr. Patricia Cembrzyńska, art historian, looks at the artists’ activities. As well as an extensive choice of the work of Jan Bujnowski and Aleksander Duraj, there are also photos by Mathilde Papapietro, Andrzej Ślusarczyk, Andrzej Jerzy Lech, Jan Zegalski, Marta Deskur, and a photographic record of the activities of Tomek Saciłowski and Maurycy Gomulicki .

 

The meeting accompanies the Dzieło-działka. The art of the allotment exhibition by a Aleksander Duraj.

 

 

 

14.06.2012, 18:00

PHOTOALLOTMENT

About Photographic Explorations in allotments. Aleksander Duraj, Jan Bujnowski and Mathilde Papapietro.

Led by: Patrycja Cembrzyńska

The Seweryn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Krakow, pl. Wolnica 1