The exhibition presented in 1966 at the Foksal Gallery, was one of the earliest attempts to transform the exhibition space into an open environment of experience. The collaborative action of artists and composers resulted in the creation of a spatial-sound composition in which the viewer’s presence was not only assumed but essential. Visitors interacted with suspended canvases, metal sheets, nets, and spatial structures – touching, moving them, and producing sounds.
The exhibition defied the classical format of a display – it was a process, an event, a performative environment in which every element functioned temporarily, influenced by the presence and movement of the body. It was not so much ‘looked at as it was you experienced – physically, sonically, and spatially
Exhibition: Grzegorz Kowalski, Zygmunt Krauze, Henryk Morel, Cezary Szubartowski, 5 ×, Foksal Gallery, 1966
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