KUŹNIA \ THE FORGE
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"The exhibition organized in May 1969 in Toruń at 32 Podmurna Street, because of the venue – a building that once war a blacksmith’s works – was entitled The Forge. The exhibition was organized within the program of a national symposium about the mutual influence between plastic arts and artistic photography (10-11th of May). Due to this the opening ceremony was attended by nearly the entire photography milieu of the period. The intention of the creators was for the exhibition to be a uniform, taken over space that confronts the dilapidated and raw architecture of the building with the created, peculiar in their form artistic objects, objects found on the spot and photos dispersed on the floor, on the walls, the doors, or the ceiling. In the building the artists found a rake, a shovel, cloths, window frames, old planks of wood, and all this was of course included in the exhibition.
The
idea behind The Forge
was to show a confrontation of architecture (perceived as spatial
form) with the articles in it, objects and photographies. The works
have been composed in such a way as to blur the boundaries between
the photograph, the object and the environment. As a result, the
entire exposition turned into a spatial form that connected artistic
space and reality."
excerpt from the text by Piotr Lisowski - From
the amateur phenomenon to a mental space. The exhibition
of group ZERO-61at the forge as a place of interaction with the
exhibition space.
Publication accompanying the exhibition The Forge
Editing by
Piotr Lisowski
Coordination
Katarzyna Radomska
Translations
Jarosław Hetman
Maciej Pokornowski
Photography
Anna Chojnacka, Andrzej Różycki, Elżbieta Tejchman
Design and typesetting
Rafał Jara
Printed by
PW Warex, Toruń
ISBN: 978-83-929875-5-0
