Wystawa “Druga Grupa” Galeria Krzystofory [Exhibition of "Second Group" at Galeria Krzystofory].

Kraków: Galeria Krzystofory, 1971. Poster measuring 43 × 30.5 cm, folded once along the horizontal axis, to create a [4] pp. pamphlet with text and image to recto and verso. About very good. Item #52454

A brochure and poster advertising the neo-dadaist trio “Druga Grupa” (Second Group), performing at the avant-garde Krzystofory Gallery in Kraków on February 1971. Founded by Jacek Stokłosa (b. 1944), Wacław Janicki (b. 1944), and Lesław Janicki (b. 1944), the group was active 1966–1976, occasionally joined by the mysterious ZL, who is also credited on this poster. Printed on both sides, it includes a list of the group’s previous performances as well as texts and images connected with the upcoming happening. Playfully commenting on the traditions of the avant-garde, the group was affiliated with the neo-avant-garde Galeria Foksal and Galeria Współczesna in Warsaw as well as the Kraków based Teatr Cricot of Tadeusz Kantor, in which all three artists performed. In the course of their group work, the three artists co-created over a dozen performances, events and happenings, which reflected the contemporary Polish and European conceptual art scene of the 1960s and 1970s. With performance work famously difficult to document, the topic of memory and recording/documentation was often the subject of their work. In 2017 their work was celebrated in a solo show “Druga Grupa – We’d Done All That Was To Be Done” at the Cricoteka, the Center for Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, which holds their archive with documentation of performances and ephemera. Outside of Poland, the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London hold an archive of Druga Grupa.

One of only 150 copies printed. As of January 2024, not in KVK, OCLC.

Price: €350.00

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