GYMNOPAEDIA – part one, Santorini
Artist
Zbigniew Cebula
Curator
Sebastian Stankiewicz
Place
Otwarta Pracownia Gallery
11/house no. 100 Dietla Street
Opening
10.06.2022, 7 pm
Exhibition open
13-17.06.2022, 4-8 pm
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Description
“Thera is geologically composed of volcanic rock and porcelain, islands have appeared and sunk in its bay. It was the center of ancient religion where “gymnopaedia” – lyrical dances with a strict and heavy rhythm were performed.” In Zbigniew Cebula’s painting project, the monotonous dance rhythm of unarmed youths, the volcano and its rocks, the poetic paintings of Jorgos Seferis combine to show the importance of the idea of source and the nonsense of the concept of multitude in isolation from its original concept of identity coherence.
Gallery info
Otwarta Pracownia Gallery has been operating in Krakow since 1995. It is the oldest non-commercial gallery run by a group of artists associated with the Otwarta Pracownia Artistic Association. Operating for years without institutional support, thanks to the selfless commitment of artists, over 300 exhibitions of young and middle-aged artists from Poland and abroad, several dozen performances, lectures, promotion of Otwarta Pracownia publications and discussions were organized here. The publishing activity covers a total of over 60 annual catalogs and individual exhibitions as well as books by critical authors related to Otwarta Pracownia.