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Vernissage: Saturday, 16. February 2008, 8 pm

Górska, Górecki, Góralski (PL)
Joanna Górska, Ryszard Górecki, Rafał Góralski

Performance/Aktion:
"Lange haben wir darauf gewartet, aber nun ist es hier - das himmlische Wunder"
 by Joanna Górska & Rafał Góralski (Galeria Rusz)

Exhibition lasts 16.02. - 29.02.2008
Es sind nicht nur die Nachnamen der drei Künstler, die eine Verbindungslinie zwischen ihren Ideenwelten schaffen. Sowohl Ryszard Górecki, der in Berlin lebt und arbeitet, wie auch die Joanna Górska und Rafał Góralski aus der polnischen Universitätsstadt Toruń verbindet eine ebenso tiefgründige wie auch frische Sicht auf die gesellschaftlichen Phänomene, die Medien und Konsumwelt sowie eine gewisse politische Widerspenstigkeit.
Ryszard Górecki, Gazetka Ścienna, 2007, MDF, Guma, 51x83x20cm


"Ryszard Górecki portraits an unstable world, reveals the weaknesses of this global collosus whose blood flow is controlled by giant corporations. He appears to emphasise the need for radical democration which, according to the political philosophers Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, requires new common sense. At the same time, Górecki's paintings do not portray the so-called real life which has become an obsession of many contemporary artists. He seems far more interested in synthetic reflections of our reality emerging from diagrams, statistics, tables and polls. They present figures rather than specific people, the amplitudes of stock market operations instead of conflicts between the poor and the rich world, the statistical chance of a sudden death instead of psychological portraits, indices and poll results as opposed to emotions and dramas. Once the mechanisms of social structures have been converted to virtually industrial visual forms such as schemes, strings of figures or tables, corporeity disappears completely. Consequently, radically different and often exciting interpretations become accessible. Paintings such as "Libido" or "Inquiring about sexual availability' present the interrelations between power and desire without losing the charm of a statistical metaphor."

Sebastian Cichocki, Demographic ethics - how to look after social welfare without leaving one's house. On the work of Ryszard Górecki. Fragment from exhibition catalogue "Paint it", Galeria Kronika, Bytom 2004

www.ryszardgorecki.de
Read more - Ryszard Górecki's biography >>>
Galeria Rusz was founded in 1999 by Joanna Górska and Rafał Góralski. Both born in 1973, they live and work in Torun, Poland.
Galeria Rusz is an artist group and also a place for showing art works (street bilboard, ul. Szosa Chełmińska 37, Toruń). since almost 8 years we conduct a fascinating experiment with a street- billboard gallery. We try to break the isolation od contemporary art, it's alienation. Our works exist usually in public space which makes them available to everybody. We have exhibitied in polish galleries such as Zachęta – Narodowa Galeria Sztuki in Warsaw, CSW Łaźnia in Gdańsk, Instytut Sztuki Wyspa in Gdańsk, BWA in Wrocław, Arsenał in Białymstok etc. as well as abroad (Karlsruhe, London, Lille etc.)
We have received three times scholarships from the Polish Ministry of Culture and twice from the City of Toruń. We have been nominated to the Deutsche Bank Foundation Prize "Spojrzenia 2007" for the most interesting young artists in Poland. In 2007 we have received Grzegorz Ciechowski Prize.
www.galeriarusz.art.pl
www.galeriarusz.com

Read more about Galeria Rusz - tekst by Monika Weychert-Wałuszko (polish version) >>>
Joanna Górska, "Resistance"

 Joanna Górska, "Resistance"
Rafał Góralski, "Feeling" Rafał Góralski, "Jail"

Ryszard Górecki
born 1956 in Slubice/Poland
Lives and works in Berlin and Słubice
1975–80 - Studium at the University of Zielona Góra, Diploma 1980
Works as painter, object-artist and in public spaces

Scholarships and Prizes:
2005 Stipendium des Kulturministers/Warschau
2001 Stipendium des Kulturministers/Warschau
2001 Stipendium der Stiftung Kulturfonds, Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf
2000 Stipendium der Stiftung Kulturfonds, Künstlerhaus Lukas/Ahrenshoop
1999 Stipendium des Kulturministers/Warschau
1998 Arbeitsstipendium Kap Arkona/Rügen
1994 „Pass” Jahreskulturpreis des Wochenblattes Politika/Warschau

Solo exhibitions - selection:
2007 Century, Galerie dla, Toruń
2007 Zło, Galerie Pies, Poznań
2006 Nie, Zentrum Gegenwärtiger Kunst, Ujazdowski Schloss, Warschau

Group exhibitions - selection:
2007 Dziedzictwo Betonu, Zentrum Gegenwärtiger Kunst, Ujazdowski Schloss, Warschau
2006 Patriotismus von Morgen, Kunstinstitut Wyspa, Gdańsk
2005 Do not use Polish!, Cirk/Zebrastraat, Gent

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