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Gallery 2
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Workshop
of Film Form 1971-79
Kazimierz Bendkowski, Wojciech Bruszewski, Tadeusz Junak, Pawel Kwiek, Antoni Mikolajczyk, Janusz Polom, Jozef Robakowski, Andrzej Rozycki, Zbigniew Rybczynski, Ryszard Wasko ---- Exhibition opening 16.06, 6 p.m. ---- Exhibition on view till 3.09 ---- Curator: Ryszard W. Kluszczynski ---- Co-operation: Urszula Sniegowska |
 From the leftj: Janusz Polom, Wojciech Bruszewski, Waclaw Antczak, Jacek Lomnicki, Tadeusz Junak, Antoni Mikolajczyk, Lech Czolnowski, Zdzislaw Sowinski, Jozef Robakowski, Pawel Kwiek, Kazimierz Bendkowski, Andrzej Rozycki, Ryszard Wasko, Zbigniew Rybczynski - 1973 Lodz. Workshop of Film Form - group picture - photomontage |
The Workshop of Film Form was established in 1970 beside the State College of Film, Television and Theatre in Lódz. Partcipating in this project were not only students but also many different artists. In the seventies the Workshop became Poland’s most important avant-garde artistic formation. It was an example of analytical art, unequalled to this day. Right from the beginning the Workshop was linked with Lódz, not only
geographically but also in programme. It reverted to the work of the
artists who in the 20’s and 30’s created the avant-garde likeness of
Lódz: Wladyslaw Strzeminski, Katarzyna Kobro, Karol Hiller. Many of
the Workshop’s projects were made in close co-operation with the Museum
of Art in Lódz. One of the group’s biggest achievements is the highly
acclaimed periodical project Construction in Process (Konstrukcja
w Procesie). The main artists of the Workshop still live in Lodz.
The exhibition prepared for Warsaw’s Centre for Contemporary Art marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Workshop (June - August 2000). It documents the group’s unique position in the field of modern art and also presents the modern and historical significance of the model of analytical art, created by the Workshop. The exhibition gathers broad examples of the group’s artistic achievements: experimental films, video works, photographs, objects, installations and documents of the performance activities. In order to be shown some of the works have gone through a small reconstruction. For the purposes of the exhibition a special bilingual catalogue - monograph of the group’s artistic achievements will be prepared. The presentation of the Workshop of Film Form is considered to be one of the most important exhibitions in the Centre for Contemporary Art in the year 2000. Ryszard W. Kluszczynski |
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