Ewa Rybska & Wladyslaw Kazmiercak
Following the Birds (2)
Sunday 17 October
Toynbee Studios
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Ewa Rybska & Wladyslaw Kazmierczak started art as duo performers in 1997. From that time they did over 150 performances in Slovakia, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Belarus, Ireland, Slovenia, Mexico, Indonesia, Canada, Korea, France, USA, Israel, Finland, Estonia, Spain, Great Britain, Sweden, China and Poland (21). Presently from 10 years they are living in UK.
W. Kazmierczak born in 1951. Educated at the Academy of Fine Art in Krakow / Poland. He started with performance art in 1974 became as a pioneer performer in Poland.
He was a curator of international performance art festival “Castle of Imagination” in Poland 1992 – 2006 / 15 editions.
E. Rybska born in 1958. UK. Educated at the College of Art and Design, Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland. She was a curator in the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art in Poland 1996 – 2006.
Rybska & Kazmierczak have been produced a number of political performances based on aspects of freedom, paradoxically also in the democratic countries, focused on difficult and traumatic themes; political hypocrisy, issues of oppression, freedom and elimination of the origins cultures by the process of globalization. They often use in performances ironic and nihilistic attitude especially against to the empty, fashionable values and artificial icons in the art and culture.