| | | | | | | | Zofia Kulik
The Splendour of Myself IV, 2007
Schwarzweiß Fotografie, Collage aus 12 Teilen
200 x 180 cm
© Zofia Kulik / Courtesy Art Collection Telekom | | | | | | Rhythms of Power | | | | 22 March – 28 July 2024 | | | | Opening: Thursday, 21 March, 7pm | | | | | | Francisco Carolinum Linz Museumstr. 14, A-4010 Linz
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Guardians of the Spire, 1990
Silver gelatine print
240 x 150 cm
© Zofia Kulik / Courtesy: Persons Projects | | | | | | "Zofia Kulik – Rhythms of Power" is the Polish artist’s first survey exhibition in Austria. Besides large-format photographic works and the self-portrait The Splendour of Myself, the presentation includes parts of Kulik’s diploma project that were created between 1968 and 1971, towards the end of her studies at Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.
For decades, Kulik has been archiving thousands of photographic negatives and compiling a huge collection of visual phenomena. The motifs are organised into more than 250 different categories, ranging from images of models in various poses to themes such as skulls, bones, vegetables, flowers, dogs, fabrics, buildings, postcards, masks, explosions or cities – to name just a few.
In the darkroom, Kulik employs an analogue process of multiple exposure to combine hundreds of single images from this archive into complex, multi-layered compositions. Sketches and stencils serve to illustrate her working method. | | | | | | | | | Zofia Kulik
Self-portrait with a Flag II, 1992
Silver gelatin print
150 x 150 cm
© Zofia Kulik / Courtesy: Persons Projects | | | | | | Zofia Kulik organises her visual materials like a choreographer of mass gatherings – controlling the rhythm as she arranges single images into rows, circles and other geometric figures; often determined by the rules of symmetry, they define a world order in the manner of a mandala or join together in a serial arrangement to create an ornament.
Kulik’s artworks were shown in the 2023 edition of Les Rencontres de la photographie in Arles, at documenta 12 in Kassel in 2007, and at the 47th Venice Biennial in 1997. Her work is also represented in leading international museums, including Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and MoMA, New York.
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