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WE LOVE DADA FOR TODAY Saturday, March 2, 2002, 8 pm Dovercourt House, 2nd Floor Ballroom TORONTO, Canada ... FADO is pleased to present the Toronto premiere of Polish performance artists Wladyslaw Kazmierczak and Ewa Rybska. On Saturday, March 2 at 8 pm, the visiting artists will present their new work, WE LOVE DADA FOR TODAY. Wladyslaw Kazmierczak and Ewa Rybska present striking and witty visual tableaux that consider the shifting worlds of pop culture and geo-politics from an Eastern European perspective. Their work reflects a sharp eye for the symbolic and iconic significance of everyday items. These artists comment on the human condition in an imperfect and fragmenting society through a dense layering of art historical references with the languages of advertising and electronic media. |
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The artists write of their work: The performance is about the world of dramatic divisions, the great transformation and breakdown of totalitarian ideologies. The world of relative principles, pretence and inauthenticity, forces the lonely search for ones own criteria to build a different world. WE LOVE DADA FOR TODAY offers insight into the concepts of multiple identity and individuality in an imperfect and fragmenting society. The artists' visit is sponsored by FADO as part of an international networking project. While in Toronto, Kazmierczak and Rybska will meet with local artists and art students to discuss performance art activity in their native Poland. This project also marks the beginning of an exhibition agreement between FADO and the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Under this agreement, a number of FADO performances will be presented in Hamilton as part of the Gallery's Sevenseason program. For more details on the artists' February 28 performance at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, contact Tor Lukasik-Foss, Outreach Coordinator at (905) 527-6610 ext. 258 or by email: tor@artgalleryofhamilton.com Wladyslaw Kazmierczak was born in 1951 and currently lives in Slupsk, Poland. Educated at the Academy of Fine Art in Cracow (M.A.), he first began creating performance art actions in 1979. He has presented over 150 performances in Poland, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Slovenia, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Czech Republic, Belarus, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Mexico, Indonesia and Switzerland. In 1997 he began creating collaborative works with Ewa Rybska. Kazmierczak is the director and curator of the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Slupsk, Poland, and is also the curator and organizer of the Castle of Imagination International Performance Art Festival taking place annually in various locations throughout Poland since 1993. Ewa Rybska was born in 1958, and studied at the College of Art and Design in Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland. Since 1994 she has been working as a curator of the artistic program at the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art. She is also a co-organizer of the annual Castle of the Imagination International Performance Art Festival. Following her interest in multi-media visual art, she has been active in the initiation and administration of several international artist-run projects, including exchange exhibitions, festivals and artist residencies. Since 1997 she has been creating performance art works in collaboration with Wladyslaw Kazmierczak, performing in Slovakia, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Belarus, Ireland, Slovenia, Mexico, Indonesia and Poland. FADO is pleased to acknowledge the support of the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and the Department of Canadian Heritage for their sponsorship of this project. The artists' North American tour is presented in cooperation with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and the Art Gallery of Hamilton. |
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