ALTERNATIVA EDITIONS BY WYSPA INSTITUTE OF ART REALESE GRZEGORZ KLAMAN’S MONOGRAPH

Grzegorz Klaman is the legendary founder of Gdansk art scene. He was a key figure among the young generation of Polish artists whose ideals and approaches took shape during the workers’ strikes of August 1980, the period of martial law from 1981 to 1983 and the economic and political changes after the collapse of communism in 1989. The nature of his art and his interest in self-organization and structural independence were key factors in helping him become one of the country’s most frequently discussed artists in the 1980s and 1990s and one of the most prominent figures in the new expression and then in critical art. For Klaman, being an activist and setting up venues for art like Wyspa is an inseparable part of being an artist. He is probably the first Polish artist to have consistently combined the political and the visual in such an uncompromising fashion for over a quarter of a century.

 

The volume comprises of 256 richly illustrated pages as well as essays, interviews, archive and documentation of the artist’s work it is edited by Krzysztof Gutfrański and includes texts and interviews are written by Kuba Szreder, Waldemar Baraniewski, Roman Dziadkiewicz, Dieter Roelstraete, Hadas Maor, Gabriela Salgado, Artur Żmijewski, Łukasz Gorczyca, Krzysztof Gutfrański, Kamila Wielebska and Aneta Szyłak.
 

Published in Alternativa Editions Series by Wyspa institute of Art , hard cover, ISBN 978-83-924665-3-6
The book is supported by the City of Gdansk and The Office of the European Capital of Culture Gdansk 2016 – Candidate.

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