Thursday October 28th, 2021
"Patricia Piccinini: That's Us!" exhibition opens 29 October 2021!
Join us at the Center of Contemporary Art at 6 PM.
"Patricia Piccinini is the psychologist of the New Beings that we may be creating or that we may be becoming without realizing it. The artist wants to show us these creatures on one hand, and ourselves on the other, creates them in her imagination and turns them into hyper-realistic sculptures with a moving form. They are terrifying or beautiful, repulsive or surprisingly alluring, but always – provoking reflection. These strange human-animal characters arouse our wild curiosity and anxiety, because we as a species have always been primitively emotional about peculiarities, deformed people, different from what we consider the norm, different from ourselves. Patricia Piccinini shows us a future that is just being born, as Leonardo da Vinci and Jules Verne used to do."
Marek Żydowicz, curator
Come and join us in the fascinating journey through the fantastic world of Patricia Piccinini!
The exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Art in Toruń is the first solo show by Patricia Piccinini in Poland, and thus will be the first opportunity for the Polish audience to experience the engaging and thought-provoking experience of the chimeric Piccinini universe. The exhibition "Patricia Piccinini: That's Us!" is organized in close cooperation with the artist herself and with the ARKEN Museum of Modern Art in Ishøj (Denmark). The exhibition will present a cross-section of Piccinini's work with complete installations, videos and sculptures. The exhibition "Patricia Piccinini. That's Us!" will be on display at the CSW Toruń from October 29, 2021 to April 10, 2022.
The event accompanies the 29th edition of the EnergaCAMERIMAGE Festival.
The exhibition is organized by World Art Foundation.
Co-organizers: Tumult Foundation and the EnergaCAMERIMAGE International Film Festival 2021, the City of Toruń, European Film Center Camerimage and the Centre of Contemporary Art "Znaki Czasu" in Toruń
The main partner: Marshal Office of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship
Partners: The Institute for Cultural Exchange in Tübingen (Germany) and the ARKEN Museum of Modern Art in Ishøj (Denmark)
FINANCED BY THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND NATIONAL HERITAGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND AS PART OF THE TASK: CO-ORGANIZATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF THE ART OF CINEMATOGRAPHY EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2024
CO-FINANCED BY: THE CITY OF TORUŃ AND KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE REGION
