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Dear ARLISians, Over the last few years, I have worked with the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw to help promote their archive and to plan an exhibition to help celebrate the gallery's 50th anniversary. The material is amazing and the gallery's archive is an impressive graphic record of inventive and rigorous persistence. There is a lot of printed matter, including super exhibition publications, posters and invites. It's been a great collaboration and we are installing the 50th anniversary exhibition now at the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center in NYC. For anyone in the New York area and for others visiting over the next month or so, please come to the show. The opening is this Friday night, or catch it while it is up at the James Gallery until Dec. 17th. There is also a talk on Monday, Nov. 21st with art historian and curator, Pawel Polit and members of the Foksal team and a walk-through with the curators on Tuesday, Nov. 22nd. More info below. thanks and best, David Senior ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Art&Education <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 2:01 PM Subject: The James Gallery at CUNY Graduate Center presents Thoughts Isolated: The Foksal Gallery Archives, 1966–2016 To: [log in to unmask] [image: Art and Education] <http://artandeducation.net/> November 10, 2016 [image: nov10_jamesgallery_image.jpg] <http://www.centerforthehumanities.org/james-gallery> Zbigniew Gostomski, *Windows Without a View (Winter Assemblage)*, 1969. Site-specific installation outside Foksal Gallery. Photo: J. Borowski. Courtesy of the Foksal Gallery. The James Gallery at CUNY Graduate Center *Thoughts Isolated: The Foksal Gallery Archives, 1966–2016* November 19–December 17, 2016 *Opening: *November 18, 6–8pm *The James Gallery* The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets New York, NY 10016 *Hours: *Tuesday–Thursday noon–7pm, Friday–Saturday noon–6pm www.centerforthehumanities.org <http://www.centerforthehumanities.org/james-gallery> [image: fb.jpg] <http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://artandeducation.net/newsletter/17467&t=The+James+Gallery+at+CUNY+Graduate+Center+presents+Thoughts+Isolated%3A+The+Foksal+Gallery+Archives%2C+1966%E2%80%932016+> [image: tw.jpg] <http://twitter.com/home?status=Currently%20reading%20http://artandeducation.net/newsletter/17467> Share Curators: Katherine Carl, Katarzyna Krysiak, David Senior Cooperation: Bartek Remisko and Martyna Stołpiec. With special thanks to Anna Ficek and Jennifer Wilkinson Organizers: James Gallery, The Graduate Center, CUNY and Foksal Gallery, Mazaovia Institute of Culture, Warsaw Founded by artists and critics in 1966 in Warsaw, Poland, the Foksal Gallery has thrived through transitions in the realms of government, the economy, and the art world. How does the Foksal Gallery illuminate ways of building a sustained art community and legacy? The archives tell the story of the gallery as a model of an arts space run as a collaboration between artists and critics and engaged consistently in critical reflexive dialogue about its purpose/mission and meaning. The exhibition opens on the occasion of the Foksal Gallery's 50th anniversary featuring the Foksal Gallery Archive's unique set of resources of original papers, photographs, printed matter and artworks collected since the gallery's founding. The exhibition includes early exhibition catalogues, invitations, posters and flyers, often designed by the artists themselves. Original material such as maquettes and designs for exhibitions are also to be found, as well as a large amount of photographic documentation of performances, installations and social gatherings at the gallery as well as sound and moving image recordings of early happenings and events. The theoretical writings of the core critics who formed the Foksal's philosophical agenda, such as Wiesław Borowski, Hanna Ptaszkowska, Mariusz Tchorek and Andrzej Turowski, were provocations towards rethinking how art could be presented. This exhibition pays homage to their work and theoretical rigor which emphasized new artistic concepts that changed how art could take place and disperse itself. These key texts form the enduring legacy of the Foksal Gallery. *Thoughts Isolated,* the exhibition's title, is excerpted from a text entitled "The Living Archives" by Wiesław Borowski and Andrzej Turowski (1971), in which the artists-critics stated in bold text: "WE DO NOT PRESENT HISTORY BUT WE KEEP THOUGHTS ISOLATED." This notion captures the Foksal Gallery's continued exploration of role of the archive in the gallery's program. As we trace the various ways in which the archive was staged throughout the history of the gallery, this exhibition is similarly an experiment with archival practice. In its current state, housed in same small gallery space in Warsaw, the Foksal Gallery Archive demonstrates the truly experimental nature of the exhibitions and performances by gallery artists like Henryk Stażewski, Zbigniew Gostomski, Tadeusz Kantor, Edward Krasiński, Maria Stangret, and Stanisław Dróżdż and generally, the role played by the gallery in shaping the history of contemporary Polish art (more <http://www.galeriafoksal.pl/?page_id=6&lang=en>). The exhibition was made possible by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland; the support of the Polish Cultural Institute, New York; the patronage of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute/Culture.pl. Special thanks to Anka Ptaszkowska. Additional support from The Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York; The Kosciuszko Foundation; The Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America, Inc.; Artists Alliance Inc.; CEC ArtsLink; EFA Project Space; Franklin Furnace; NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc.; Residency Unlimited. *James Gallery programs* Monday, November 21, 6:30pm Lecture and discussion Achieving Rapport: Art and Archives at Foksal Gallery Katarzyna Krysiak, Pawel Polit, David Senior, Justyna Wesołowska. Moderated by Katherine Carl Tuesday, November 22, 6:30pm Gallery tour *Thoughts Isolated: The Foksal Gallery Archives, 1966–2016 * Katherine Carl, Katarzyna Krysiak, David Senior Wednesday, December 7, 7pm Conversation Object-Oriented Feminism Irina Aristarkhova, Katherine Behar, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Ashley Dawson, Piper Marshall, R Joshua Scannell [image: logo-footer.jpg] <http://artandeducation.net/> Contact <http://artandeducation.net/contact> Subscribe <http://artandeducation.net/subscribe> Unsubscribe <http://interspire.e-flux.com/unsubscribe.php?M=8486&C=2ee2352618b30963f179c5968cafdec4&L=4&N=17194> RSS <http://artandeducation.net/feeds> -- David Senior Senior Bibliographer Museum of Modern Art Library 11 W. 53rd St. New York, NY 10019 212-708-9863 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~