
KwieKulik
- Publisher
- JRP Ringier / Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw / BWA Wrocław
- Year
- 2013
- ISBN
- 978-3-03764-299-3
- Specifications
- hardcover, cloth binding
24.7 × 30.5 cm
576 pages
791 colour and 1,017 black-and-white illustrations
English
Edited by Łukasz Ronduda, Georg Schöllhammer
Texts by Jacek Dobrowolski, Maciej Gdula, Klara Kemp-Welch, Zofia Kulik, Przemysław Kwiek, Ewa Majewska, Paweł Mościcki, Luiza Nader, Maryla Sitkowska, Tomasz Załuski
Graphic design by B. Pindor, A. Bartkowiak, Z. Kulik
Co-published with the KwieKulik Archive and Kontakt, The Art Collection of Erste Group and ERSTE Foundation
This comprehensive monograph, stemming from a long-term research project on the KwieKulik Archive, documents the collective works of Zofia Kulik and Przemysław Kwiek from 1971 to 1987, illuminating the radically unique position of the artists in the history of the neo-avant-garde in Central Europe. The book covers and documents more than 200 events and includes a "KwieKulik Glossary", the collection of concepts introduced and applied by the artists. The essays feature excerpts from texts devoted to KwieKulik over the last decades. Their oeuvre is approached from the perspective of socio-political commitment and criticism of the surrounding reality, unprecedented in the history of Central European post-war avant-garde, and the book contains over 1,700 photographs, scans and transcripts of documents from the artists' unique archive. Zofia Kulik and Przemysław Kwiek pioneered, since the 1970s, the transformation of artistic practice into social experimentation. KwieKulik sought to reconcile artistic praxis with everyday life, essentially basing their work on the premise that form is a fact of society. The couple's pioneering approach to film, photography, and multi-screen slide projection epitomizes their unique variation of expanded cinema.