Illustrated Long Ago 


series of printed collages
commisioned by Short Stories Festival
Contemporary Museum Wrocław
curator: Piotr Stasiowski
2012




An attempt to discuss with a tradition of the Polish 20th century literary avantgarde with using the form of collage. Sokolnicka creates pictures anew from pieces of connotations, literary references and afterimages of a turbulent history of this realm. The 20th century has probably been the most dynamic period of development in this area, where experiment and novelty in the approach to a word has reached its crescendo. Rendition and reconstruction of these changes into a form of a collage pictures cycle is another attempt to read the history of writing. In Sokolnicka’s works a written word and its philosophical and semantic consequences have always played an important role as a cause and etymology to investigate visual culture. Her exhibition in Contemporary Museum Wrocław accompanies the 8th International Short Stories Festival.

—Piotr Stasiowski









Religion

illustration of religia poem by Anatol Stern
from
Ziemia na lewo volume,
using a visual fragment of the poem

inkjet print on archival paper, ed. 1/3, 50 x 70 cm, 2012







to the poem Rewolucja ćała
with the use of fragment of it,
from
Nuż w bżuhu volume by Anatol Stern
inkjet print on archival paper, ed. 1/3, 50 x 70 cm, 2012







Futurism was based on a concept: the concept of subconsciousness’ classicism
On the basis of the introduction by A. K. Waśkiewicz
to A. Stern’s
Wiersze zebrane, Krakow 1986
inkjet print on archival paper, ed. 1/3, 50 x 70 cm, 2012







Młodziakowa (after “Ferdydurke” by Witold Gombrowicz)
inkjet prints on archival paper, ed. 1/3
100 x 70 cm & 70 x 70 cm, 2012










Młodziak’s House



Zuta

(after “Ferdydurke” by Witold Gombrowicz)
inkjet prints on archival paper, ed. 3
70 x 100 cm x 2, 2012












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