<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">MEDIATIONS BIENNALE WILL BE
HELD IN POZNAŃ FOR THE SECOND TIME</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">.</span></i><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> <br>
<br>
</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Mediations Biennale
is the largest exhibition of contemporary art in Poland and one of the major
events of the kind in Central Europe. Biennale’s idea is the dialogue between
civilizations, between culture and art, presentations of achievements in the
latest art from remote corners of the globe, as well as artistic explorations
of Central European artists. Although the event is still young (the first
edition was held in 2008) – since the outset grand scale was its middle name.
This year, some 150 artists from 30 countries participate in the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">undertaking. 12 curators supervise
the presentation. The works will fill 5 specific venues and open spaces in
various locations in Poznań to boot.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Biennale should vibrate with life and approach
contemporary discourses and discussions as near as possible – </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">says Matthias Reichelt, one of the
curator of the „Erased Walls” exhibition. –<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">On the other hand, it
should not yield to what is canonised by museum and what enjoys demand on the
art market – </i>he stipulates. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The main programme
comprises two exhibitions: “Beyond Mediations” and “Erased Walls”. These are
accompanied by three events shown at the “Arsenal” Municipal Gallery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span class="linkitresc1"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold"><a href="http://www.mediations.pl"><span lang="PL" style="color:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:PL;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">www.mediations.pl</span></a></span><span lang="PL" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="PL" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><a href="http://www.erasedwalls.eu"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:
none;text-underline:none">www.erasedwalls.eu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="PL">All exhibitions
open on <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">11th September 2010<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span lang="PL">preview schedule<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span lang="PL">12:00 </span></b><span lang="PL" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">–<b> </b>National Museum in Poznań<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span lang="PL">14:00 </span></b><span lang="PL" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">– <b>„</b>Arsenał” Municipal Gallery<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span lang="PL">15:00 </span></b><span lang="PL" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">–<b> </b>ZAMEK Culture Centre<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span lang="PL">17:00 </span></b><span lang="PL" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">–<b> </b>container building </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">–</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> </span><span lang="PL" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">ZAMEK Culture Centre <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>car park, Św. Marcin Street<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span lang="PL">19:00 </span></b><span lang="PL" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold">–</span><span lang="PL" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">building complex in E. Orzeszkowej
Street</span><b><span lang="PL"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span lang="PL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><o:p> </o:p></span></b><b><span lang="PL"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span lang="PL">__________________<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:12.0pt">MAIN PROGRAMME</span></i></b><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:8.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span lang="PL" style="font-size:8.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:8.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span lang="PL" style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">_BEYOND MEDIATIONS<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
</span></b><b><span lang="PL" style="font-size:3.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[venues</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">]</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>ZAMEK Culture Centre/ National Museum
in Poznań<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="PL">[duration]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></b><span lang="PL">12.09.-30.10.10<br>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">[curators]</b> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Ryszard
W. Kluszczyński, </span>Tsutomu Mizusawa</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="PL"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 49.65pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -49.65pt; line-height: normal; "><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="PL">[artists</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10.0pt">]</span></b><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10.0pt"> <span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></span><span lang="PL" style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Keith
Armstrong & Chris Barker (AU),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Małgorzata Borek (PL), Dorota Chilińska & Andrzej Wasilewski (PL),
Luc Courchesne (CA), Jonas Dahlberg (SE), Smadar Dreyfus & Lennaart van
Oldenborgh (Il/UK), Inga Fonar Cocos (IL), Paula Gaetano Adi (AR), Hossein
Golba (IR), Ken Feingold (US), Masaki Fujihata (JP), Naoya Hatakeyama (JP),
Sanja Iveković (HR), Jakub Jasiukiewicz (PL), Eduardo Kac (US), Kimsooja (KR),
Bart Koppe (NL), Masato Kobayashi (JP), Daniel Koniusz (PL), Kamil Kuskowski
(PL), Konrad Kuzyszyn (PL), George Legrady & Angus Forbes (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">CA/</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">US), Marie-Jo Lafontaine (BE),
Dominik Lejman (PL), Julien Maire (FR/DE), Wade Marynowsky (AU), Yuiko
Matsuyama (JP), Hidetoshi Nagasawa (JP), Jean-Christophe Norman (FR), Zbigniew
Oksiuta (PL), Anna Orlikowska(PL), Adrian Paci (AL), Mateusz Pęk (PL), Geoffrey
Alan Rhodes (US), Józef Robakowski (PL), Yukina Sakai (PL), Chiharu Shiota (JP),
Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau (AT/FR), Konrad Smoleński (PL), Calum
Stirling (UK), Michelle Teran (CA/DE), Ultra-red (US), Paul Vanouse (US), Magnus
Wallin (SE), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (TH), Marc Tobias Winterhagen (DE/PL),
Wu Jian'an (CN), Piotr Wyrzykowski (PL), Kijuro Yahagi (JP)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 49.65pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -49.65pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="PL"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 49.65pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -49.65pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="PL"><o:p><br></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 49.65pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="PL" style="font-size:3.0pt"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The exhibition <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Beyond Mediations</i> is the outcome of the
dialogue between two curators: Tsutomu Mizusawa from Japan (director of
Yokohama Triennale; deputy director of MOMA in Kamakura and Hayama in Japan)
and Professor </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Ryszard </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">W. Kluszczy</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">ń</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">ski – an eminent expert in media art. The curators agreed a list of
almost </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">60</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> creative
names.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 49.65pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">In this exhibition – which is a remarkably rare
occurrence – the traditional genres of contemporary art (painting, sculpture,
drawing etc.) will co-exist with the new media on an equal footing. The
presentation aspires to overthrow the ever-persisting division between them.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 49.65pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">“By juxtaposing paintings and interactive
installations, one achieves the sharp and clear outline of dissimilarities
found currently in the world of art, a manifestation of the diversity
predominating there” – Prof. Kluszczyński writes. And adds: “<span style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">In </span></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Beyond </span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Mediations</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">, the
direct effect of this media-genre coexistence is also the parallel presence of
various kinds of experience that art is capable of providing today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 49.65pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-style:italic">Apart from artworks
which engender experience engaging one in a profound, contemplative penetration
of autonomous worlds that these works call to life, there are also interactive
realisations inviting the audience to co-create the experienced form, works
which offer experiences which possess the structure of a network connecting
various aspects of reality, which invite to enter a social and political
discourse (as well as actions), which encourage to perceive art as a tool with
which to analyze the present and even as a means of its transformation. The
works of artists invited to the exhibition reveal that contemporary art is
ready to abandon the autonomy it had had until recently, that it enters into
elemental relationships not only with media technology but also with the worlds
of science and many other social discourses, creating new, multidimensional
languages of expression, which are adapted to the hybridity of the contemporary
reality, to the complexity and multiformity of the world we live</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;
mso-bidi-font-style:italic"> in. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#92D050;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:
bold"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 49.65pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The exhibition’s tremendous diversity, the
multitude of its inherent issues, themes and discourses, as well as the
extensive spectrum of form with which they are expressed might appear chaotic.
But this is how it should be! The world is chaos, once unleashed from the
corset of order-imposing ideologies. And art only can restore the ability and
joy of experiencing the world in its untidy state, in its creative disarray”.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 49.65pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 49.65pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 49.65pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: -49.65pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="PL" style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><b><span lang="PL" style="font-size:8.0pt"><br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
</span></b><span lang="PL" style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span lang="PL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-style:
italic">_</span><span lang="PL" style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">ERASED WALLS<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
</span></b><b><span lang="PL" style="font-size:3.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:
italic"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[venues]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">container
building –</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> ZAMEK</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:
EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Culture Centre</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:red;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US">car park,<span style="color:red"> </span>building complex in E. Orzeszkowej Street <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="PL">[duration]<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></b><span lang="PL">12.09.-30.10.10<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span lang="PL" style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">[</span><span lang="PL">curators]</span></b><span lang="PL"> Georgi Begun, Noam Braslavsky, Juraj
Čarný, Nika Kukhtina, Matthias Reichelt, Sławomir Sobczak, Raman Tratsiuk &
Volha Maslouskaya, Marianne Wagner-Simon, Tomasz Wendland</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="PL"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">[artists]</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span><span lang="PL">Alternazione
(IT), Arena Online (Internet), Yossi Attia and Itamar Rose (IL),</span></p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 49.65pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="PL">Ariella
Azoulay (IL), Group BLOCK (HU), Ondrej Brody (CZ) and Kristofer Paetau (FI,
BR), Pasko Burdjelez (HR), Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkáčová (CZ), Costantino
Ciervo (IT, DE), Ronald Dagonnier (BE), Plamen Dejanoff (BG, AT), Alexandra
Dementieva (RU, BG), Democracia (ES), Tomáš Džadoň (SK, CZ), Richard Fajnor
(SK, CZ), Clemens Fürtler (AU), Grupa 4! (PL), Robert <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">F.</i> Hammerstiel (AU), Rudolf Herz (DE), Rafał Jakubowicz (DE), Karl
Heinz Jeron (DE), Sandy Kaltenborn & Pierre Maite / Image-shift (DE), MK
Kaehne (LT, DE), MK Kaehne (LT, DE) & Andrei Loginom (BY, DE), Uri
Katzenstein (IL), Peter Kees (DE), Cezary Klimaszewski (PL), Thomas Kilpper
(DE), Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser (DE), Paweł Kowalewski (PL),
Christine Kriegerowski & Christoph Tempel / Gated Community (DE), Oliver
Kunkel (DE), Maciej Kurak (PL), Michael Kurzwelly (DE, PL), Marek Kvetan (SK),
Otis Laubert (SK), Ola Lewin (LT, DE), Volker März (DE), Stano Masár (SK),
Tamara Moyzes (SK, CZ) & Shlomo Yaffe (IL, CZ), Johan Muyle (BG), Vladimir
Nikolič (RS), NO-MED (PL), Andrzej Pepłoński (PL), Dominik Popławski (PL), PSJM
– Pablo San Jose Moreno (AU, DE), Cynthia Vera Perez (ES, DE), Peter Puype (BG),
Ariel Reichman (ZA, DE, IL), Don Ritter (CA, DE), Roman Sakin (RU), Roland
Scheffersky (PL, DE), Ruti Sela & Maayan Amir (IL), Marcus Shahar (IL),
Krzysztof Sołowiej (PL), Haim Sokol (IL, RU), Jan Peter E.R. Sonntag<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>(DE), Małgorzata Szymankiewicz (PL),
Koen Theys (BG), Jean Toche (BG, US), Jaan Toomik (EE), Ilya Trushevsky (RU),
Maxim Tyminko (UA, DE), </span><span lang="PL" style="mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;
mso-fareast-language:AR-SA">Tomáš Vaněk </span><span lang="PL">(CZ), Koen
Vanmechelen (BG), Oleg Yushko (BY, DE), Jakob Zoche (cały świat).</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span lang="PL"><br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
</span><span lang="PL" style="font-size:3.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 35.4pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The exhibition is shaped by 10 curators, who
develop narration around </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">problematics
and history of Central Europe, a narration which nevertheless departs from the
experience of the “Round Table” revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 35.4pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">„<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Erased
Walls”, </i>as Tomasz Wendland writes in the foreword to the catalogue, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">narrows its reflective focus to the
creative work after 2000, with an emphasis on the latest art, yet without
geopolitical constraints.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.0pt;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:
EN-US">Erasing of the frontiers does not apply exclusively to our region
anymore. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>All over the world, the
walls that were physically erased, have been replaced by invisible ones –
all<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the more efficacious and
poignant because of their imperceptibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 35.4pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Political divisions are now being exchanged for
new ones, those associated with the dominance of the capital, social supremacy,
poverty, media manipulation, the feeling of solitariness and exclusion. The
artists, by constructing an image, arrive at reflections otherwise
unattainable, which cannot be devised by means of language or document. An
image is frequently a close-up quotation from reality, which, having been
extracted from the mundanity and then presented in a different light shed by
art, becomes surprisingly distinct. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Erased
Walls</i> is an ironic question: have the last walls really fallen?”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 35.4pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The “Erased Walls” project may be appreciated
in its entirety only after the consecutive modules of the exhibition have been
seen in Freies Museum and Concentart in Berlin (7-30.10) and during the
Crazycuratos Biennale in Bratislava (4-30.11.). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->
<div>
<div style="font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div></div></body></html>