Timeline
Andrzej Bieżan: Intuition:Freedom. The event accompanies the exhibition Music as Notation: Music as Experiment
On Thursday 9 September at 6 pm, MOCAK and the Foundation for Critical Art would like to invite you to a discussion with Bolesław Błaszczyk, the author of the book Andrzej Bieżan: Intuition: Freedom. The event will be held in Polish.
Thursdays with the Artists from the MOCAK Collection. Krzysztof M. Bednarski
To mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of MOCAK, we are launching a new series of film screenings entitled Thursdays with the Artists from the MOCAK Collection.
Guided Tour of Temporary Exhibitions in English
On Sunday 8 August at 12 noon you are cordially invited to join the guided tour in English of our temporary exhibitions.
The Artist Is Present
The exhibition is a presentation of artistic strategies based on the artist’s use of their own body as a means of expression and a source of symbols. The self-portrait is the underpinning area of such activity, which also involves a study of the body’s strength, attractiveness, disfigurement and functionality. This is where painting and performance work best. This art declares unequivocally that the basic material and inspiration in visual creation is the human being.
![Przemek Matecki, untitled [Michaelangelo], from the series //Small Paintings//, 2016–2018, mixed technique / canvas, 20 × 20 cm, MOCAK Collection](https://d1uip03pwa14dd.cloudfront.net/system/images/32801/f404514abb_box120.jpg)
Art Feeds on Art
The works presented at the exhibition are most often based on painting and sculpture, but also on literature and film. The artists draw on old art and the work of their contemporaries. They choose meaningful works and enter into a dialogue with them – whether critical, affirmative, or, occasionally, humorous. They reinterpret literary and film works. They give a topical slant to established iconographic patterns, such as the adoration of the Magi or crucifixion. They create their own variants of well-known masterpieces.
Music as Notation: Music as Experiment
The MOCAK Collection contains several dozen scores of experimental music. These are usually musical notations written in private languages and intended for performers who work directly with the composer. The starting point for this part of the exhibition are works shown in the Polish Institutes in Prague (1983) and Paris (1985), and at the Royal Academy of Music in London (1986) during the exhibition Musical Score as Piece of Art. These include graphic scores by Marek Chołoniewski, Piotr Grella-Możejko, Krzysztof Penderecki, Bogusław Schaeffer and Ewa Synowiec. Another part of the exhibition consists of scores understood in a broader sense. These are written down and drawn plans of action and performance, several of which took place in Krakow.
The Cover Alien to the Book: Library Intervention
As part of her intervention, the artist gave the old books new titles and painted new dust jackets. Thus, the former content of the books was invalidated. The gesture is radical, but not final: the dust jackets can be removed so as to return to the original relationship between the dust jacket and the content.
10 YEARS of MOCAK!
You are cordially invited to the jubilee exhibitions of the Museum Collection! Opening: Thursday June 24!
Thursdays with the Collection. Krzysztof Wodiczko
Through April, May and June we present documentation of Krzysztof Wodiczko’s public projection that took place on the Main Square in Krakow in 1996.
