Znaczące gesty Zofii Kulik
Zofia Kulik

Summary/Abstract: In 2004, Zofia Kulik had a few exhibitions. The artist is interested in big format photographs. In the 1990’s, she concentrated on social and political issues in the post-communist era. She used social-realist motifs as the symbols of totalitarian regime. She revealed the mechanisms of government domination. In 1999, she showed a series of photographs entitled “From Siberia to Siberia” at the National Museum in Poznan. The show travelled to Stockholm (“After the Wall”, Moderna Museet, 1999), and to Berlin (Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fuer Gegenwart, 2000). In February 2002, the Zachêta Gallery in Warsaw organised Kulik’s exhibition entitled “From Siberia to Cyberia, 1998-2004”. It travelled to Kraków and was shown at the Bunker Art Gallery. It included 18,000 photographs which were hanging on 21 by 2.4 metre walls. She showed black-and-white pictures, which documented many different events form all over the world. They illustrated short and long stories. The wall was a mosaic of popular images from television shows, advertisements, serials, and news. At the Starmach Gallery in Kraków, Kulik showed a series of photographs entitled “An Archive of Gestures” (1987-1991). It included about four hundred photographs of a male nude model (Zbigniew Libera). He was photographed while making theatrical gestures, and assuming different poses, based, for example, on Lucas Cranach, Breugel and El Greco’s pictures. Libera played roles of soldiers, saints, heroes, and dancers. Form 1988 to 1990, Kulik drew hundreds of sketches, which she later used as a scenario for photo-sessions. The sketches were shown at the Masza Potocka’s Gallery in Kraków. The newest work by Kulik was shown at the Galeria Le Guern in Warsaw. The series was entitled “Self Portrait and a Garden”. It included multiple-exposure photographs, which, for example, were entitled “The Magnificence of a Self” (it referred to Queen Elisabeth the 1st portraits), “Light Rose”, “Land Escape”.

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