Modern Housing................................................................... 2 Let My People Go - Back to Poland............................... 4 NEUE Kraft............................................................................. 4 Burning Fire MS2 ............................................................... 31 Temmersons......................................................................... 31 SHIT-ART............................................................................... 34 What’s kaman......................................................................37 MALAdengas.......................................... 45 RED/BLUE shift...................................... 46 The concept of the Universe ........... 49 What is it about...................................... 51
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Let My People Go
“And Europe Will Be Stun-ned,” Yael Bartana’s celebrated film trilogy
introducing Poland’s Jewish Renaissance Movement, arrived at Petzel Gallery for its first New York showing--just as a new museum devoted to Jewish culture was opening its doors in Warsaw. Suddenly w
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MUSEPAPER - Contemporary Art Newspaper Sunday, April 7th, 2013
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things got a lot “more real” Jacob Zielinski
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o rings out the appeal, by a dashing orator, for 3.3 million Jews to return to the land of their forebears—Poland. The resurrection of Jewish life can herald a multicultural utopia where the Other is no more—and Poland is once again whole, declares the man, leader of the Jewish Renaissance Movement. “Heal our wounds and you’ll heal us,” he implores. “…without you we will remain locked in the past…Return today and Poland will change. Europe will change. The world will change.” The scene, shot in Warsaw’s abandoned National Stadium, is from Mary Koszmary (Nightmares), part one of Yael Bartana’s stirring threepart film and Europe will be stunned. The piece (which ends tragically yet hopefully) has appeared at venues from Tel Aviv to Canada to Australia, including the Polish Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale and in
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Warsaw at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art. Though part one was shown at the Jewish Museum, the entire work hasn’t been screened in New York until now. Through May 4, the three parts are being projected simultaneously in three separate rooms at Petzel gallery’s new space on 18th Street. Made in the format of World War II propaganda, Bartana’s Polish return fantasy is one of a number of recent works by Israel-born artists who relocate the Promised Land to Europe. All of them are mockumentaries, in one way or another, that harness the aura of Truthiness for their message on anti-Semitism and Zionism, past and present. Bartana—who filmed the construction of a kibbutz-like structure in Warsaw for Wall and Tower, part two of the trilogy—brought her campaign into another reality when she turned the Jewish Renaissance Movement into a real entity, staging its first International Congress at the Berlin Biennale last year. At Petzel, you can pick up a poster for it—in
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Polish, Hebrew, or English. Her story gets even “more real” tomorrow when a $40 million project almost two decades in the making, The Museum of the History of the Polish Jews, opens its doors in Warsaw, across from the famous Ghetto monument. Designed by Finnish architect R ainer Mahlamäki, the building is a glass and concrete cube. A glass curtain with a gash represents the parting of the Red Sea, as well as the rupture caused by the Holocaust. Its goal is to direct the conversation about Poland’s Jews away from the death camps— the country’s biggest tourist destination— and toward life in the millennium before the Holocaust. As Allison Hoffman reports in Tablet, this would help reverse the “falsification of history” at home (to use the words of Poland’s Consul General in New York), and to inspire cultural tourism from abroad—to use the words of Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, the American folklorist who designed the main exhibit, to tap into the “Bilbao vit dolorecest auda vidusti cumquid ucipsan danime doloribus dignisquis re, vercipi squatam, quiaercim qui quo etur rerem ipis nonsequodi aspeliciendi teniae molorro occae por ad moluptati od ma vid unt as untur suntota dernam sequibus enisquaes aliqui sundips antempe iunt lis doluptiae. Uga. Itaquas destion repudam ratquos eos et quos delibus, sunto es dia pore sus rerum debis as rehendae niatiat ectios dolor as aliat voluptatenda explige ndisquam, eum quas velest, test utatur rae simolup taspel incte venihit aquatet erum dita doluptio. Onsequae nos pero et aut esedign atasimus, cusamus rectatusam, sit