Pretexts

Pretexts is a literary, performative regulative tour of the permanent exhibition of the Four Domes Pavilion’s collection of Polish art of the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

Paintings and sculptures become a pretext to use a word, a word to use a gesture, and the presence of one person to interact with another. Relationship, movement, reflection. Are these good pretexts to follow us?

A close museum, a human museum, a museum that speaks. On this crowded museum night, the paintings will speak the words of the painters. Will we find ourselves in the crowd? Listen. Look out.

In repertoire:

– Zdzislaw Beksinski, Bacteria (excerpts), source: Zdzislaw Beksinski, Stories, Olszanica 2015

– Jan Cybis, Painting Notes. Journals 1954-1966 (fragments), Warsaw 1980

– Władysław Hasior, excerpts from correspondence with Hanna Kirschner; source: Hanna Kirschner, Hasior. A Tale for Two Voices, Warsaw 2005

– Tadeusz Kantor, Intimate Comments (excerpts); source: Krzysztof Pleśniarowicz, Kantor. Artist of the End of the Century, Wroclaw 1997

– movement interpretation of Aleksander Kobzdej’s The Rift

– excerpts from Boleslaw Bierut’s speech at the opening of a radio station in Wroclaw (1947) in the context of Aleksander Kobzdej’s painting Podaj cegłę / Pass the Brick

– LUXUS Group: manifesto “Luxus – Psychoactive Magazine”

– Erna Rosenstein, selected poems from the collection All Paths, Krakow 1979; the fairy tale Golden Ball from the collection Fairy Tales, Wroclaw 2014

– Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Regulations of the Portrait Company (excerpt); source: witkacy.hg.pl