Raster0/10/10RasterLukasz GorczycaMichal KaczynskiWspolna 63PL-00687 WarsawT +48 784 588 854M +48 22 245 12 39<strong>in</strong>fo@rastergallery.comwww.rastergallery.comShown at <strong>LISTE</strong>:Rafal Bujnowski, 1974, PLMilena Korolczuk, 1984, PLSlavs and Tatars, founded 2006Other Artists of the Gallery:Azorro, PLMichal Budny, PLOskar Dawicki, PLSlawomir Elsner, DE/PLAneta Grzeszykowska, PLKwieKulik, PLZbigniew Libera, PLMarc<strong>in</strong> Maciejowski, PLPrzemek Matecki, PLB<strong>art</strong>ek Materka, PLZbigniew Rogalski, PLWilhelm Sasnal, PLJanek Simon, PL(top left)Milena KorolczukPlaton, 2012Archival <strong>in</strong>kjet pr<strong>in</strong>ton cotton paper37 × 29 cm(top right)Rafal BujnowskiUntitled, 2012Oil on canvas166 × 166 cmSlavs and TatarsKitab Kebab, 2012Books, skewerVarious dimensions<strong>14</strong>8 / <strong>14</strong>9Rafal Bujnowski blends two seem<strong>in</strong>glyremote discipl<strong>in</strong>es <strong>in</strong> his <strong>art</strong>istic practice –pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g and conceptual <strong>art</strong>. Whether it’sone of his ‘pa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g-objects’ replicat<strong>in</strong>gan ord<strong>in</strong>ary object <strong>in</strong> shape, size andappearance, a ‘light-destroyed’, sh<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>gpa<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g from the Lamp Black seriesor a landscape with successive layers ofreflections and mirror<strong>in</strong>gs – Bujnowskimanages to create an illusory effect andthus takes up a study <strong>in</strong> the politics ofvision, question<strong>in</strong>g status and orig<strong>in</strong>ality ofthe <strong>art</strong>work.Milena Korolczuk, currently the <strong>young</strong>est<strong>art</strong>ist represented by Raster gallery, dividesher time today between her native Podlasieregion – one of the most traditional areasof Poland – and California. As an <strong>art</strong>istshe represents a new generation, raisedafter the ecstatic events of 1989, portray<strong>in</strong>g<strong>young</strong> people who are unwitt<strong>in</strong>g yetactive agents of history, vessels of <strong>art</strong>isticand social change. Korolczuk is alsoan <strong>art</strong>ist of strik<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>tuition and talent forcreat<strong>in</strong>g concise images. Her work, mostlyphotographs and films, cleverly comb<strong>in</strong>esthe natural, visceral rhythm of life with itsroots <strong>in</strong> culture, mesh<strong>in</strong>g the universumof <strong>art</strong> and <strong>art</strong> history assimilated dur<strong>in</strong>gher studies with her own generationalexperience.Slavs and Tatars is an <strong>art</strong> collective,‘a faction of polemics and <strong>in</strong>timacies devotedto an area east of Eurasia’ as it describesitself. <strong>The</strong> collective’s work spans severalmedia, discipl<strong>in</strong>es, and a broad spectrum ofcultural registers; playfully collid<strong>in</strong>g thoseth<strong>in</strong>gs we consider opposites or<strong>in</strong>compatible – be it metaphysics and humor,Islam and Communism, pop culture andgeopolitics, or simply the clash of low andhigh. <strong>The</strong>ir works can be divided <strong>in</strong>to cyclestak<strong>in</strong>g up different issues: a celebrationof complexity <strong>in</strong> the Caucasus; the unlikelyheritage between Poland and Iran;mystical protest and the revolutionary roleof the sacred and syncretic.
Rodeo1/6/2RodeoSylvia KouvaliYeni Hayat Ap<strong>art</strong>.,Sıraselviler Caddesi no 49TR-Istanbul 34437T +90 212 293 5800<strong>in</strong>fo@rodeo-gallery.comwww.rodeo-gallery.comShown at <strong>LISTE</strong>:Ian Law, 1984, UKEftihis Patsourakis, 1967, GROther <strong>art</strong>ists of the galleryMark Aerial Waller, UKBanu Cennetoğlu, TRLukas Duwenhögger, DEHaris Epam<strong>in</strong>onda, CYApostolos Georgiou, GREmre Hüner, TRIman Issa, EGGülsün Karamustafa, TRShahryar Nashat, CHChristodoulos Panayiotou, CYJames Richards, UKIan LawProduction image,<strong>2013</strong>Eftihis PatsourakisHeadless, 2012Oil on wood35.5 × 35 cm150 / 151
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