Barbara Kozłowska

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The book published by the Arton Foundation and the Wrocław Contemporary Museum is the first monograph on Barbara Kozłowska (1940–2008), a Wrocław artist, painter, and precursor of performance art in Poland. The study contains a detailed timeline of Kozłowska's life and work, prepared by Marika Kuźmicz and Zbigniew Makarewicz, essays by Marika Kuźmicz, Piotr Lisowski, Karolina Majewska-Güde and Wiktoria Szczupacka, and a selection of texts by Barbara Kozłowska. The publication discusses and problematizes the artist's work, placing it in the context of the Wrocław avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s and in the context of the phenomenon of global conceptualism. As Piotr Lisowski wrote in his text: "At the end of the 1960s, a 'melting pot of concepts, views and attitudes' was created in Wrocław, which shaped a strong neo-avant-garde artistic environment. Jerzy Ludwiński, a critic who described and co-created this environment, indicated the emergence of conceptual art as a factor that united this group. Although he himself defined conceptualism very broadly, describing it as a 'convention-free zone' that encompasses everything 'whatever can be thought and conveyed'. In this melting pot of concepts, a special role was played by Barbara Kozłowska, an artist working at the interface and border of various creative forms and attitudes." Editor Dr. Marika Kuźmicz Publisher Arton Foundation City, Year Warsaw, 2020 Texts Dr. Marika Kuźmicz, Dr. Karolina Majewska, Piotr Lisowski, Wiktoria Szczupacka Language Polish, English Details Softcover Pages 239 pages, numerous illustrations in colour Size 24 x 17,5 x 2 ISBN 978-83-63350-42-0 Show more