Noah Webster Library Gallery: Galeria Rusz Visits America September 29 – October 31 Public Reception: Wednesday, October 8, 6-7:30pm
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Galeria Rusz Visits America
September 29 – October 31
Public Reception: Wednesday, October 8, 6-7:30pm
About Galeria Rusz (Joanna Górska and Rafał Góralski)
Both artists were born in 1973, they live and work in Toruń, Poland.
Galeria Rusz is an artistic group, specializing, above all, in creating and presenting art in the urban space. Since 1999, the artists run their own billboard gallery, located at 37 Szosa Chełmińska in Toruń. It is the longest ongoing project of this type in world, presenting art continuously on one billboard. The artists exhibit a new work on the billboard every month. They treat this systematic interference with the space of everyday life as a very important artistic experiment. This experiment transcends the narrow boundaries of contemporary art and broadens its range of impact on society. The artists transfer art into the urban space, the sphere of everyday life, in order to make it available also to those, who do not visit traditional galleries and museums.
The group creates billboards, murals, organizes poster campaigns, artistic interventions and social actions within the urban space. Up to this date, the artists have created more than 400 artistic billboards. Their work is concerned both with the private, individual sphere of life (which might be, in a simplified manner, called a psychological sphere) and with the external, collective sphere (which might be, in a simplified manner, called a social sphere). This division is rather symbolic and blurry – it is to underline the fact that through their work the artists try to describe the complex situation of the human being, who is both an individual and a member of a larger community, with all the dependencies stemming from this fact. Their works provide a new frame for different fragments of reality, a frame allowing for new interpretations. The artists encourage the viewer to frame their perception of certain phenomena in a new way, to play with the frames providing context for the interpretation of a given phenomenon.
Galeria Rusz Vists America will be last exhibition of the gallery’s curatorial calendar under curator Joe Bun Keo. Fellow artist, Adam Nikelwicz facilitated the group’s involvement in this exhibition.
These exhibits are generously supported by the Thomas F. Kilfoil Memorial Bequest, West Hartford Library Foundation.