#Pavel Bownik

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Bownik   Undercoat

Ernst van Alphen, Andrew Berardini, Aneta Dalbiak, Soren Gauger, Michal Ksazek, Zoska Papuzanka, Roma Sendyka, Magdalena Ziolkowska,  design by Honza Zamojski

Central Museum of Textiles in Łódź 21.4.-24.07.2022 and Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin 2022, 248 pages, 140 images, hardcover,19 x 24.6 cm, ISBN 978-3-7757-5250-3

euro 57,00

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Artificiality and representation: exploring the materiality and socio-historical context of traditional costumes

In his monumental photographs, taken with an analogue large-format camera, Paweł Bownik examines the »artificiality« in photography. Inspired by the classic iconography of historical still lifes, genre painting, and the aesthetics of 1940s American cinema, Bownik dissects the elementary components of his subjects with remarkable attention and challenges the historical norms of their representation. He precisely dissects plants in order to surgically reconstruct them with ostentatious artificiality. Or he questions common historical narratives, symbolized by traditional costumes: by turning them inside out and turning them inside out, the complex embroideries reveal not only their materiality, but also their socio-historical context. undercoatbrings together Bownik's work over the past decade, informed by the artist's awareness of the patterns that shape our surroundings and our perception.

Polish artist Pawel Bownik (born 1977) makes large-format photographs inspired by the classic iconography of historical still lifes, genre painting and 1940s American cinema aesthetics. By carefully dissecting and reconstructing the elementary components of his subjects, he examines the artificiality of the medium.

Exhibition Central Museum of Textiles in  Łódź 21.4.-24.07.2022

19/09/22

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