Opening of Zbigniew Libera\'s Archive
Zbigniew Libera by Zbigniew Libera, 1989/1990
Archive of Zbigniew Libera available on the website of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw from June 2nd 2014.
The collection encompasses the period from the beginning of the 1990s, that is, from the time of formation and crystallization of the main areas of Libera’s artistic interests, to be manifested in his mature works. Looking at the early, or even infant works of Libera, one can understand and trace the obsessive reoccurrence in his works of such motives as death, destruction, sexuality and oppressive nature of a society.
The archive presented on the Museum’s websites is unique. The artist in a radical gesture makes public almost all documents preserved, photographs and videos from before 1991 (almost two thousand items). Next to the well-known, iconic works, such as “Intimate Rites“, “Mystical Perseverance“ or “How to Train Little Girls“, we present photos from his family album, documentation of the artistic life (the “Strych” in Łódź and “Kultura Zrzuty” /Chip-In Culture/), collection of photographs and press clippings gathered by Libera as inspiration, materials used for his works and photographic documentation of his journey to North Africa and Israel at the end of 1989 / beginning of 1990.
A meeting with Zbigniew Libera is scheduled on June 5th 2014, 6.30 p.m., combined with the film screening at the Museum’s Auditorium.
The Archive is available in the Archive tab on the Museum’s website.
The online Artists’ Archives created by the Museum aim at facilitating research and popularizing the most interesting phenomena of the art after 1945. Currently, the website: artmuseum.pl provides access, among others, to the archives of Alina Szapocznikow, Eustachy Kossakowski, Tadeusz Rolke, the studio of prof. Grzegorz Kowalski or the 7th Berlin Biennale.
