Tag: ‘Poland’

Piotr Bondarczyk

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Piotr Bondarczyk, a film-maker working in California, created this mural as a direct link to his profession. The work is the famous kiss scene from Gone with the Wind, enlarged to the proportions of a wall. Clark Gable’s pixelated face might suggest a different interpretation, however, with locals speaking of a kiss between Lech and Danuta Wałęsa.

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PGR ART

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Mural przedstawia zakodowany binarnie cytat z twórczości Witkacego. „Sztuka jest odrębnym światem, jest ostatecznym odbiciem jedności bytu” pochodzi z powieści „622 Upadki Bunga czyli Demoniczna Kobieta” i został wybrany spośród zgłoszeń wysłanych do PGR Art w ramach projektu „ALFABET/Odsłona pierwsza: Witkacy”.

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Paweł Karczewski

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Nagórskiego 7d 1997 Festiwal 1997 The experiment to bring a dash of antiquity to the modernist space of a flat complex proved very convincing. What’s more, the fading of colours so unavoidable in mural painting only adds charm to the romantic mural on Nagórskiego street. The work is also an interesting example of the definition […]

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Michał Węgrzyn

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National Armed Forces Nagórskiego 11c 2012 Gdansk School of Mural The mural was created for the 70th anniversary of the National Armed Forces, a force of 100,000 in armed conflict with the communist regime during the years directly after the conclusion of the Second World War. It shows the appalling conditions for these ‘enduring’ troops […]

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M-City

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Pilotów 12a 2009 Monumental Art 2009 The mural recalls the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two. Like Waras’s other  work, it was created with the aid of a stencil. The technique allows work to be created very quickly on walls but is preceded by the painstaking work of cutting out the stencil […]

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Krzysztof Wróblewski

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The mural was painted in shades that echo the colours of the Polish flag. It is an interpretation of photographs taken during a typical summer’s day in Westerplatter, the place which witnessed the outbreak of World War Two. This is why we can see a pirate flag from a souvenir stall next to Major Sucharski’s uniform. The work illustrates the process of metamorphosis and the blotting out of details that collective memory of historical events is subject to.

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Justyna (Dziechciarska) Posiecz-Polkowska

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Based on an archive photograph taken at RAF Northolt in West London in 1940, the design uses the blueprints of a Spitfire fighter plane as a background. The aim is to show the pilots of 303 Squadron in an individual context away from the glamour of war heroes. The best example of an unconventional personality is squadron ace, Wing Commander Jan Zumbach (fifth from left), pseudonym Donald Duck, who after the war was a mercenary, smuggler, disco owner in Paris and airborne taxi pilot.

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Joanna Skiba

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A Zaspa pyramid of animals, painted in exceptional circumstances. With the scaffolding already prepared on Pilotów street, one of the invited guests cancelled the trip to Gdańsk. In the heated search for a replacement, the Gdańsk artist Joanna Skiba was persuaded to step in – her first experience of a 36 metre-tall wall.

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Jacek Wielebski

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This mural was created on the 30th anniversary of the formation of the Independent ‘Solidarity’ Trade Union. This event in Polish history began the process of constructing social relations founded on human rights as well as on the freedom and dignity of the individual. Jacek Wielebski’s work appears to show that the process of ‘shaping the individual’ has yet to be completed.

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