[url=http://expcinema.org/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=143&... 1,2,3… Avant-Gardes - Art as Contextual Art[/url]

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[b]1,2,3… Avant-Gardes - Art as Contextual Art[/b] is the next stage of an exhibition and research project that explores the “continuous” history of experimentation in film and art and the interaction of both fields. Grounded in the extensive Polish experimental film output of the 1970s, [b]1,2,3… Avant-Gardes[/b] will offer a selection of films mostly produced by Polish artists from that period, whilst including contemporary international artistic proposals that constitute a challenge for the interpretation of the history of experimental cinema. The exhibition follows a schema structured under the following headings: [i]Analytical Strategies[/i]. [i]Games and Participation[/i]. [i]Political Film and Soc  rt[/i] (Socialist Art). [i]Image and Sound[/i]. [i]Imagination[/i]. [i]Consumption[/i]. This specific disposition will structure the works with the aim of analysing both formally and conceptually the use of experimental
strategies within visual production.

The show at sala rekalde is a new contribution of [b]1,2,3… Avant-Gardes[/b] entitled [i]Art as Contextual Art[/i]. It departs from main ideas developed by Polish conceptual artist Jan Swidzinski, who in the early 1970s wrote manifestos and produced art works based on radical ideas about the importance of working within a specific socio-political context. His proposition for producing Contextual Art instead of a more universal Conceptual Art was crucial for the Polish art of the 70s. The exhibition will try to analyse the political, aesthetical and theoretical implications of working with the context of some Polish artists active in the 1970s and will also set out the different ways of negotiating with this issue in contemporary art production.