A Call to Artistic “Guerrilla Warfare”: The Particular Case of the Particolare Exhibition in Venice (2011) as a Development of Giovanni Anselmo’s Project at the Foksal Gallery in Warsaw (1974)

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The article takes up the topic of Polish-Italian artistic contacts in the context of the group exhibition Particolare. Art that sparks unrest (2011). It was organized by Andrzej Turowski and Grzegorz Musiał in the historic Palazzo Donà in Venice, which became the exhibition space of the Signum Foundation in Poznań. One of the inspirations for this show featuring important “export” Polish artists was Giovanni Anselmo’s exhibition at Foksal Gallery in Warsaw (Particolare, 1974), which was almost 40 years earlier. In the text I analyze the relationship between the two events. I see them as a source of an artistic and critical practice rooted in the revolution of the 1960s, present in the Arte Povera movement and then developed today by selected artists in the public space. I focus my attention on the model of tactical engagement of “poor art” and Andrzej Turowski’s belief in the critical and interventionist power of art, which, in order to stir up the title anxiety, questions the apparent obvious, is suspicious of images of modernity, and uses subversion as a critical method of deconstruction.

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Andrzej Turowski, Giovanni Anselmo, Particolare, Arte Povera, art vs. Politics, the art of protest, socially engaged art, Foksal Gallery



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Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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