Return to the roots

Bilateral initiative facts

Promoter:
Museum - Orava Ethnographic Park in Zubrzyca Górna(PL)
Bilateral initiative number:
PL-CULTURE-BI062
Status:
Completed
Initial cost:
€29,797
Actual cost:
€25,382
Initiative Types:
Exhibition
Partners:
R0MMEN STORE Kristin Solberg(NO)
Programme:
Programme areas:

Description

The planned activities are aimed at activating local communities living in the Polish part of Górna Orawa and Loten in Norway.  The activities will consist in: preparing and organizing three exhibitions of a famous artist: painter, sculptor, musician and performer - Andrzej Dziubek, two in Poland in Orawa (in Jabłonka and in Zubrzyca Górna) and one in Loten in Norway, implementation of artistic workshops for school students and lectures for adults introducing them to the subject of modern art and providing the basis for independent reading of symbols contained in the works of today''s artists

Summary of the results

Exhibitions "Existentialism. "Back to the roots", consisting of paintings and installations placed in different spaces and in different surroundings, evoked extremely different associations, building an emotional connection between the artist and the recipient of his art. The exhibition, in each of the three towns where it took place, was preceded by artistic workshops for young people and lectures for various groups of recipients, the aim of which was to familiarize the control group of project participants with various trends in modern art, as well as with the formal and content layers of Andrzej''s works. Dziubka. Complementing the above-mentioned The described activities were the opening of the original NEBB Gallery in Jabłonka and the concert of the De Press band during the opening of the exhibition in Loten. Survey research has shown that a small percentage of Polish adult viewers and participants of curatorial tours rejected this type of artistic expression as unacceptable in historic and museum spaces, describing Andrzej Dziubek''s art as incomprehensible, terrifying and too hermetic. However, over 90% of respondents in Poland and Norway, after attending the curator''s lecture, and in the case of young people and children - after the lecture and artistic activities, understood the meaning of the artist''s art and the way he expressed himself in relation to the reality surrounding us in connection with the past and tradition.

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