Dimensions: 119 x 169 cm
signed and dated p.d.: 'ŁÓDŹ KALISKA 2007 | [signatures of group members], inscribed l.d.: 'INSTRUCTIONS FOR KILLING ART. IN TRIBUTE TO ANDY WARHOL FOR MONEY /15'
signed, dated, numbered and described on the reverse
on the reverse stamp: 'ŁÓDŹ KALISKA | Janiak Kwietniewski [crossed out] Rzepecki Świetlik Wielogórski'.
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Biography
The group consists of Marek Janiak, Andrzej Kwietniewski, Adam Repecki, Andrzej Świetlik and Makary (Andrzej Wielogórski). It was founded in 1979 in an atmosphere of scandal, as a neo-avant-garde formation aimed at exploring the aspect of seeing and recording of a photomedia nature, derived from the tradition of conceptualism, primarily in the field of photography, experimental film and performance. In 1980-81 it changed its artistic program to a decidedly more Dadaist-surrealist one (happening and anarchist in expression), attacking and ridiculing the Polish neo-avant-garde formation and depicting the absurdity of life in the People's Republic of Poland. Kwietniewski and Janiak wrote a lot of manifestos at the time, including, for example, Janiak's "Embarrassing Art" manifesto, which was important for the 1990s. Since the second half of the 1990s, thanks in part to television film productions (the triptych I Remember, I Remember, I Remember...), Lodz Kaliska has entered the mass-media and political establishment. But everything in their work, including the artists themselves and their muses (models), became an element and object of endless play with a hedonistic message.
