Guided tour in English of the exhibition: Filip Rybkowski: A Theory of Clouds

On Saturday 20 December, at 12 noon, you are welcome to visit the English-language guided tour of the exhibition: Filip Rybkowski: A Theory of Clouds. Your guide will be the artist and educator Adam Nehring.

Rybkowski’s exhibition takes World War I and the artist’s positioning towards it as its starting point. The artist is primarily interested in the cultural and artistic consequences of the conflict at the beginning of the 20^th century and their long-lasting effects: the fragmentation, dismemberment and defamiliarisation of the body and the experience of historical and social reality, modern crises of representation and masculinity, as well as post-war returns to order marked by the birth of fascism.

In a manner characteristic of his work, Rybkowski evokes and re/deconstructs classical works and modernist and avant-garde exhibition situations, recreating and transforming the anxious experiences of the modern subject. Engaging in a metamodernist dialogue with Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, Claude Monet, Władysław Strzemiński and Witkacy, he constructs a series of aesthetic displacements and temporal translocations. With their help, he focuses the attention of the audience as much on the post-war reality of 100 years ago as on the 2020s, in which we are all living, whether we like it or not.

Admission is included in the exhibition ticket price. The meeting point: the MOCAK reception desk.

Host:

Adam Nehring – artist, educator and guide at MOCAK. Graduate of painting at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, student at the Doctoral School of the Pedagogical University of Kraków.