post-competition exhibition

vernissage:

Stary Browar – Gallery in the Courtyard: 18.00

Arsenal City Gallery: 20.00

Biennale of Graphic Arts, established in 1999, is a cyclical review presenting the work of artists of the young generation, active in the field of graphic arts. For some time, we have been implementing a new formula of the Biennale, which is adapted to changes in contemporary art and to the role of graphic statements in the context of social activities (activist movements).

The theme of the 13th Biennale of Graphic Arts, which will start on April, 21 this year in Poznan, is “Error” – an issue that criticizes the existing reality as defective and imperfect in relation to art, proposing instead improvements and transformations within culture and society.

At the exhibition, we will see dozens of works by young artists from Poland and Ukraine. It will not only be a broad review of the omnipresent graphic expression in our lives. The artistic and social value of the works will certainly transfer the often dramatic stories told to an aesthetic situation. The Biennale is then an event that broadens knowledge about the ubiquitous manipulations and emerging errors in reality.

Within the frames of this year edition a special contribution from the Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia will be presented. The artwork titled “Gotong Royong”  resulted from the  collaboration between students, professors and alumni in a printmaking studio of Faculty of Art and Design Education at UPI. The process of creating this work raises the idea of participatory, where every individual involved in it becomes an inseparable part of the ideas and works that appear. The term “Gotong Royong” means working together.  This idea becomes the basic foundation of the work to represent the idea of working together to reduce “Error” rates.

Excerpt from the curatorial text:

“The detection of an error can be a turning point in action. It limits stagnation in life and allows for undertaking practices aimed at improving the socio-economic situation. Marshall Berman, an American philosopher, points out that “in this world, stability can only mean entropy, slow death, while our sense of progress and development is the only thing that really lets us know we’re alive. To say that our society is falling apart is to say that it is alive and well. Referring to art creative activitie, defining the existing reality as defective and imperfect, introduce improvements and transform the human environment.”

Maciej Kurak

Biennale of Graphic Arts

21.04–4.06.2023

Organizers:

• Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan

• Faculty of Graphic Arts and Visual Communication  

Co-organizers:

• Galeria Miejska Arsenał Gallery w Poznaniu

• Stary Browar

Partners:

• Fundacja Nowa UAP

• Miasto Poznań

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