NADA Miami Beach

Raster at NADA Miami Beach: Rafał Buj­now­ski, Aneta Grzeszykow­ska, Michelle Raw­lings, Janek Simon, Mika Tajima. Booth 3.10

Zofia Rydet
Time of Passing

Bartek Materka
Mathare Materka

Razem Pamoja Foun­dation from Kraków organized Bartek Materka’s exhibition in Mathare Art Gal­lery, located in the Mathare slums of Nairobi, Kenia.

Olaf Brzeski
Tu montreras ma tête au peuple, elle en vaut la peine (“Do not forget to show my head to the people, it is well worth seeing”)

Rafał Bujnowski
Rafał Bujnowski
MAN ON TREE

The works of Rafał Buj­now­ski con­tinually engage in a dialogue with the fun­damen­tal proper­ties of pain­ting. The artist is interested in what pain­tings are essen­tially for, how they func­tion in architec­tural and social space, but also the manner of their creation. These con­siderations have led him to radical solutions and far-​reaching formal restraint. The phenomenon of his pain­ting con­sists in the con­stant balan­cing between represen­tation and the illusion of represen­tation. The pain­ting process, often purely mechanical, leads to sur­prising results and laun­ches another, sym­metrical, process of reading the com­pleted pain­ting, which depends on the variable ligh­ting, distance, and the involvement of the viewer.

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Marcin Maciejowski
Michał Budny
Olaf Brzeski
Rafał Bujnowski
Slavs and Tatars
FIAC

Raster at FIAC in Paris: Olaf Brzeski, Michał Budny, Rafał Buj­now­ski, Aneta Grzeszykow­ska, Marcin Maciejow­ski, Slavs and Tatars

Rafał Bujnowski
Man on Tree

Wykonane tuszem kom­pozycje z serii “Człowiek na drzewie” to opisana naj­prost­szymi środkami plastycz­nymi metafora uwikłania, ale też swoistego azylu i ukrycia.

Rafał Bujnowski
MAY 2066

An artist book com­plemen­ting Rafał Bujnowski’s solo show at Zachęta—National Gal­lery of Art

Peter Puklus
THE EPIC LOVE STORY OF A WARRIOR

“The Epic Love Story of a War­rior – A Trilogy and Epilogue” fol­lows the events and con­flicts of the 20th cen­tury seen through the eyes of a Cen­tral and Eastern European family but told through a fic­titious story based on actual events, just trans­for­med by an associative process.

Michelle Rawlings
Clip art rose

Rafał Bujnowski
May 2066. Tondi

A series of abs­tract tondi with dif­ferent variations of a geo­metric, color-​gradient composition.

Janek Simon
Crazy gallery roadtrip

A group of artists led by Jakub de Bar­baro, Agnieszka Polska and Jacek Simon has prepared an amazing holiday project: a traveling gal­lery called Szalona Galeria (Crazy Gal­lery) that will visit small towns all around Poland during a summer road­trip in July and August. In each stop they will set a camp with a pop-​up exhibition and art book­shop, fol­lowed by film projections

Aneta Grzeszykowska
Oskar Dawicki
viennacontemporary

Raster for vien­nacon­tem­porary fair in Vienna: Oskar Dawicki, Aneta Grzeszykow­ska, Peter Puklus, Zofia Rydet

Zbigniew Libera
Libera wrestling at the theatre

“The battle of good vs. evil” is the title of a per­for­mative action by Zbigniew Libera that was part of a 24-hour-long art project “Long cycle” in the national theatre Stary Teatr in Kraków. Two pairs of wrestlers fought non stop over night on June 5 in the theatre foyer.

Rafał Bujnowski
Bujnowski at Zacheta—National Gallery of Art

“May 2066″ is a three-​chapter story about time.

Slavs and Tatars
Slavs and Tatars
SOCIETY OF RASCALS

For their second show at Raster, the Slavs and Tatars col­lec­tive presents an instal­lation in the form of a pickle-​juice bar. The title Society of Rascals (Towarzystwo Szubrawców) was drawn from the name of a now-​forgotten literary society of 19th-century Vil­nius, famous for its heavily ironic, caustic displays of satire that stood coun­ter to the self-​important stance of the roman­tics, their sooth­saying and exal­ted engagement in the nationalist discourse. The pic­kled juices served by the artists along with provocative lexical gym­nastics are meant to sug­gest an antidote for the pathos of Polish patriotism, while also expres­sing their own soured regard for any politics based on the oppositional binary of us-versus-them.

Rafał Bujnowski
Candle

Bujnowski’s works strike a sin­gular balance between his means and his sub­ject. Upon observing their tech­nical bril­liance, one might suspect that this par­ticular tech­nique deter­mines the sub­ject of his canvas. And yet the opposite is true – each par­ticular sub­ject calls for a special means and so in the ideal con­stel­lation of what we are dealing with, the applied tech­nique reveals a deeper level of meaning within the representation.

Slavs and Tatars
OGÓREK TROCKI

Slavs and Tatars call for a rescue of the 400-year-old Trakai cucum­ber which sadly didn’t survive the second World War.

Slavs and Tatars
Jak ogórek jest życie, raz w garści, raz w odbycie (Life is like a cucumber: one day in your hand, one day in your ass)

An obscene hand gesture specific to Turkic and Slavic cul­tures, “Figa” revisits the old Egyp­tian proverb: “Life is like a cucum­ber: one day in your hand and one day in your ass.”

Slavs and Tatars
Hammer and Nipple

Whether in North America, Europe, the Middle East or Asia, we’re increasin­gly sour on power.