U Var\u0161avi je od 16.12.2018. do 15.9.2019. otvorena izlo\u017eba o spomenicima u Srednjoj i Isto\u010dnoj Europi 1918-2018. na kojoj je, kao i na prate\u0107oj konferenciji, zastupljena i hrvatska povijest.<\/p>\n
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MONUMENT. Central and Eastern Europe 1918 \u2013 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Monuments create the landscape of our values which is why they so often evoke controversies. They commemorate statesmen, heroes, and victims of wars. They represent the commonly shared ideals, \u201cinhabit\u201d cities and dominate the view.\u00a0 For those in power, they are a tool in constructing collective identity. As borders shift and political regimes change, the monuments of the past era are torn down, recycled and renamed. The exhibition \u201cMONUMENT. Central and Eastern Europe 1918 \u2013 2018\u201d at the Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture at Kr\u00f3likarnia describes the functions, histories and processes to which monuments are subject. It presents the biographies of over twenty such objects from our region of Europe, from the moment of the selection of their design, through their erection and use, until the disputes they provoke and, finally, their destruction, oblivion and decay. The presentation is not just a mere historical review but a contribution to the presently carried debates.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In 2018, the Museum of Sculpture at Kr\u00f3likarnia initiated an international research project dedicated to monumental sculptures in Central and Eastern Europe. The main point on its agenda is the exhibition \u201cThe Monument. Central and Eastern Europe 1918-2018\u201d. The project also includes two other presentations: \u201cIvan Me\u0161trovi\u0107 \/ J\u00f3zef Pi\u0142sudski\u201d at the Kordegarda Gallery of the National Centre of Culture, which focuses on the pre-war design of the statue of Marshall Pu\u0142sudski in Warsaw, as well as an exhibition planned for 2019 at the Biuro Wystaw gallery. There are also plans for a conference, a series of guided walks and a book publication. The project is carried out in collaboration with the Institute of Polish Culture of the University of Warsaw, the National Centre of Culture, the National Digital Archive, TVP Kultura, and the Foundation of Polish Modern Art.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The exhibition focuses on a subject which has been stirring up emotions since as far back as the beginnings of organised societies. Monuments have been present in the European culture ever since Greek and Roman antiquity \u2013 single and group figurative forms such as statues, busts, or equestrian sculptures on the one hand and, on the other, architectural commemorative objects in the form of arches, obelisks, or gates.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ever since the Renaissance, monuments have filled the squares and the lavish main city streets. They faithfully served the 17th century absolute monarchs, the 19 century nationalist ideology or the 20th century totalitarian systems. Torn down by revolutions, erected by emperors and victorious armies, they still commemorate, symbolise and dominate in the public space.\u00a0 In contemporary times, they represent the ever changing views of democratic societies. As time goes by, they not only become the background of city life but also objects of different grassroot actions. They even get local nicknames at times (as the \u201cGallows\u201d in Olsztyn \u2013 the monument to the Liberation of the Warmia-Mazury Land,\u00a0 or the Warsaw monument commemorating the Brotherhood in Arms known as \u201cThe Sleeping Four\u201d). Monuments can even be objects of anarchist resistance of the local communities as we know from the attempted blowing up of the statue of Lenin in Nowa Huta in 1979 or from the incident of the monument of the Red Army in Sofia being shot at with colour-dye bullets and then repainted.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Due to the complicated political events in the recent century in Central and Eastern Europe, processes of\u00a0 erecting, remodelling, and removing monuments have been taking place at an ominously accelerated pace. Treated as tools for forming a collective identity of newly independent states, monuments were in growing demand at the end of World War I and at the beginning of the new political division of Europe. A similar process again took place after World War II, when the region fell under the control of the USSR. The fate of the monuments which are associated with the former Soviet domination is a subject of much controversy today: some are torn down, moved to commemoration parks, or recycled into objects of a different purpose or meaning. The exhibits at the presentation will include, for example, a piece of a statue of the Polish Mother moved here from the town of Sejny. The monument was taken down as a result of the \u201cdecommunization law\u201d of 1 April 2016, amended on 14 December 2017. In the years 1970 \u2013 1982, the statue was known as a commemoration of the 25th anniversary of Polish People\u2019s Republic. Public consultations in Sejny are planned to take place at the time of the monument\u2019s presentation at the exhibition \u2013 the local community and the town\u2019s authorities are to decide whether it is to come back to the public space, and if so \u2013 under what name.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The exhibition at Kr\u00f3likarnia tells the story of monuments which are important for artistic, historical or social reasons, and which were erected in Poland or other countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the years 19198-2018. The presentation will also include those which, despite their undoubtful artistic quality, are criticised for having been made to commemorate specific political developments and powers. This is what happened, for example, to the so called spomeniks (a term borrowed from Serbian and Croat) which for years had been left in oblivion and only recently recalled and again admired for their incredible modernist form. These include Vojan Bakic\u2019s works in Croatia or the W\u0142adys\u0142aw Hasior\u2019s monument to the Victims of Internal Struggle after World War II (otherwise known as The Organs). There has also been a rather hot discussion taking place about the monument of the Insurgence by Xawery Dunikowski on the Mount of St Anne.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By juxtaposing the examples from the different countries we would like to investigate whether the perspective of the relative community of experiences of Poland and other post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe has resulted in similar forms, logic and histories shared by the monuments of this region \u2013 whether there is a specificity of local commemorative activities unique to the entire region.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Curatorial team under the leadership of Agnieszka Tarasiuk:<\/strong><\/p>\n Hubert Czerepok, Ania Miczko<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Academic council<\/strong><\/p>\n prof. ASP dr hab. Waldemar Baraniewski<\/p>\n dr hab. Irena Grzesiuk- Olszewska<\/p>\n Piotr Nowicki<\/p>\n dr Krzysztof Pijarski<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Participation in research<\/strong><\/p>\n Klara Czerniewska-Andryszczyk, Zuzanna Derlacz, dr Mischa Gabowitsch, Alicja Gzowska, Micha\u0142 Krasucki, dr Iryna Laurouskaya, prof. Pawe\u0142 Machcewicz, Marek Matyjanka, prof. Hana Pichova, dr Piotr Przyby\u0142a, Micha\u0142 Siarek, dr Magda Szcze\u015bniak, Joanna Torcha\u0142a, Anna Wandzel, Ewa Ziembi\u0144ska, Sylwia Zaremba<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Website\u00a0<\/strong>www.pomnik.art<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The exhibition is supplemented by a website dedicated to monuments in Central and Eastern Europe, which includes descriptions and histories of the presented monuments, interviews with their authors, information about the organised discussions and news about monuments in Poland and in the region.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n International conference<\/strong><\/p>\n The research component of the project is a conferences planned for March 2019 with the participation of artists, researchers and historians about the subject of commemoration in Central and Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n http:\/\/www.krolikarnia.mnw.art.pl\/en\/wydarzenia-en\/whats-on\/146,event.html<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n http:\/\/www.krolikarnia.mnw.art.pl\/en\/temporary-exhibitions\/present.html<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n