{"id":2121,"date":"2021-01-29T18:12:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T18:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galeriamiejska.pl\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2021-11-08T13:07:26","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T13:07:26","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galeriamiejska.pl\/en\/kot-schrodingera-wobec-tradycji-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s Cat. Facing Tradition","raw":"Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s Cat. Facing Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From December 8 to January 11, the City Gallery in Wroc\u0142aw invites the viewers to the exhibition titled \u201cSchr\u00f6dinger’s Cat. Facing Tradition\u201d. The exhibition is a\u00a0collective presentation of artists associated with Wroc\u0142aw, whose work revolves around their attitude towards tradition.[\/b]

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The starting point for the exhibition is the concept of tradition, which was included by making a\u00a0reference to the famous thought experiment in quantum physics, carried out by a\u00a0Nobel Prize winner Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger in 1935. The main protagonist of the experiment was a\u00a0cat, who paradoxically turns out to be simultaneously both alive and dead during the study. The experiment illustrates the problem of applying principles of quantum mechanics in reference to everyday life.

There are five artists involved in the exhibition. They all have diverse artistic achievements, different ages and experience tradition differently. They also were or still are associated with Wroc\u0142aw Academy of Fine Arts. The display features Kasia Kmita\u2019s paper cutouts and stickers; animal mosaics and glass disks by Miroslaw Koci\u0144ski, Przemys\u0142aw Lasak’s ceramic sculptures alongside Kazimierz Pawlak’s glass spatial forms, as well as Natalia Tarnawa’s textile prints. All artists represent completely distinct points of view, separate spaces and experiences of the archaic, as well as various media and techniques.

As its underlying concept \u201cSchr\u00f6dinger’s Cat. Facing Tradition\u201d exhibition juxtaposes artistic differentiation with two seemingly distant fields of human activity – science and tradition (especially tradition in art). Tradition is part of each newest discovery of contemporary science. While creating new trends it refers to the existing ideas which have been determining the nature of contemporary art for decades. What\u2019s more, tradition shifts the achievements of art towards the achievements of exact sciences – the theory of perception, behavioural psychology, biology, and physics.

The exhibition involves an additional factor characteristic of European culture and its traditions. It is about absorbing motifs and elements from cultures which, even though they are not European, still fit in European logic and style. The artists have taken over some themes from foreign cultures and created their pieces either in a\u00a0form of motifs and ornaments, or just by using some specific methods of imaging. Graphic works by Natalia Tarnawa provide an excellent example here, as they feature ornaments typical of Central Asian carpets, or Przemys\u0142aw Lasak\u2019s ceramic objects, which in turn bring to mind ancient figures from Mesopotamia or Egypt. All artworks presented at the exhibition engage in a\u00a0dialogue with traditional motifs.

Today, we live in a\u00a0time when \u2013 as in Schr\u00f6dinger’s experiment, artworks for which the tradition is a\u00a0dead co-exist alongside those which try to revive it.
Paradoxically, artistic freedom results in killing the tradition, thus pieces by old masters lose their sense and meaning. On the other hand, the art that is created both refers to tradition and \u2013 apparently \u2013 draws from it a\u00a0wave of ideas and meanings that seemed to be long buried. Thus, a\u00a0conclusion can be reached that today’s art is on the one hand a\u00a0box with a\u00a0cat which is alive, while on the other a\u00a0box with a\u00a0dead cat.

The exhibition is curated by Miros\u0142aw Jasi\u0144ski.

Photos from the opening:https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/galeria.miejska\/photos\/?tab=album&album_id=1535260973216977<\/a>

Video from the opening:
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