Inventory number: 7740
Title: Video Installation Exercise
Date: 1978
Medium: Vintage silver prints
Image size: 5⅝ in (14.3 cm) high by 27⅜ in (69.5 cm) wide
Description: Composite of five vintage silver prints. Signed in pencil, with the printed title, date and annotation, on a card affixed to the mount.
Illustrated: Watching Socialism: The Television Revolution in Eastern Europe, The Wende Museum of the Cold War, Los Angeles, CA, 2019.
Exhibitions: Watching Socialism: The Television Revolution in Eastern Europe, June 23-October 30, 2019, The Wende Museum of the Cold War, Los Angeles, CA.
Notes: Polish video artist Andrzej Paruzel, created a series of video installations in the late 1970s reflecting on the transformation of real space into the projected world of the television. Despite the Communist regime’s use of television for propaganda purposes, artists like Paruzel soon discovered its subversive, anti-totalitarian potential. In 2019 the first major retrospective exhibition of his work, SzczekaĆ: The Dogs Grandson who Barked at Strzeminski, opened at the Mazowieckie Center for Contemporary Art Elektrowinia in Radom, Poland.
Price: $6,500