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The exhibition “Germs” is part of a “Nowa Huta’s Odyssey”, a journey through the socialist realist “Doge's Palace” in Krakow organized by @laznianowa and @dom_utopii. Set in the control room of the former ironworks of Nowa Huta and in the great hall of the Palace, Germs takes the form of an installation and a film.
“Germs are first of all a series of small sculptures related to two, if not more, periods in the history of Nowa Huta. Uniformly black, they oscillate between scale models of specific buildings and abstract pieces of architectural provenance. The clay objects executed by the artist have been inspired by archaeological finds discovered on the grounds that were becoming Nowa Huta in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The vast terrain of the future investment – the city and the Combine – was turned into an archaeological dig drilling through consecutive layers of soil in search of information about the past of the region. Excavated vases and pots with complica…
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The exhibition “Germs” is part of a “Nowa Huta’s Odyssey”, a journey through the socialist realist “Doge's Palace” in Krakow organized by @laznianowa and @dom_utopii. Set in the control room of the former ironworks of Nowa Huta and in the great hall of the Palace, Germs takes the form of an installation and a film.
“Germs are first of all a series of small sculptures related to two, if not more, periods in the history of Nowa Huta. Uniformly black, they oscillate between scale models of specific buildings and abstract pieces of architectural provenance. The clay objects executed by the artist have been inspired by archaeological finds discovered on the grounds that were becoming Nowa Huta in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The vast terrain of the future investment – the city and the Combine – was turned into an archaeological dig drilling through consecutive layers of soil in search of information about the past of the region. Excavated vases and pots with complica…
