GRUPA DZIAŁANIA I GRUPA 111 (1977– ...) „DZIAŁANIA LUCIMSKIE” – SPÓŹNIONA RECEPCJA ACITIVY GROUP AND GROUP 111 (1977-...) ‘LUCIM ACTIVITIES’ : DELAYED RECEPTION
ACITIVY GROUP AND GROUP 111 (1977-...)
‘LUCIM ACTIVITIES’ : DELAYED RECEPTION
Artistic activities in Lucim, undertaken in the past and still continued, remain
one of the most spectacular as well as the least recognized phenomena
in Polish art. In 1977, Bogdan and Witold Chmielewski, Andrzej Maziec,
Wiesław Smużny and Stanisław Wasilewski decided to focus in their work
on Polish countryside. Together with the people of Lucim, the Grupa Dzialania
/Activity Group/ and then Group 111 (without Andrzej Maziec and
Stanisław Wasilewski) engaged in actions of a very complex nature: mystical
and ritual, artistic, animating and cultural, social and research-oriented.
Without doubt, the long and active presence of the artists in Lucim can
be seen in the context of the interweaving of anthropology and art in the
late 20th century.
Various activities undertaken by the artists and local people belonged
to one of three main trends. The first one – research-oriented, ethnographical
and social – became an instrument for defining the needs of the Lucim
community, receiving and evaluation the activities. The second one was
the New Folk Art, in opposition to state-controlled cultural events in the
People’s Republic of Poland and work of other artists. This approach was
totally different from the search of relics and sources popular at the time,
which turned folk art into a phenomenon to be displayed in museums and
an object of vivisections and explorations. The Lucim group did their best
to create real culture of the countryside consistent with the tastes of local
people. And finally, there was the 11-point manifesto of social art, published
in 1980. Socially-oriented activities made it possible for the artists
to go beyond the field of art – there were numerous such cases: formulating
premises for the Centre for Social and Artistic Activities, the erection
of the Folk House and collaboration with scientists (rural sociologists from
a number of European centers).The reception of the project proved difficult. In the 1970s, 1980s and
1990s the artists’ actions were associated with cultural policy of the
state. They were completely omitted by art critics and galleries for years.
Even though the group participated in key events of the period: the famous
plain-air session Osieki 79 Meeting, the important 1991 exhibition
by Janusz Bogucki and Nina Smolarz entitled Epitafium i siedem przestrzeni
[Epitaph and Seven Spaces], housed by the Zachęta Gallery. In 2009, an
exhibition entitled Lucim Goes On! was staged in Toruń. After the show, its
organizer (the Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu) purchased a selection
of works as well as the documentation of the Group, which meant that
artifacts began to be displayed at various expositions.
It seems that reasons for this omission were threefold. Diverse activities
among the artists resulting from the demands of the locals and different
artistic attitudes. Hardly definable nature of the activities. Delayed
reception of the ‘ethnographical turn’ and the ‘performative turn’ in Poland.
But the key reason seems to be the many-year negligence of cultural
images of rural life in art. A change of this situation could only be observed
on Polish art scene in 2016.
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