Item #52667 [POLISH UNOFFICIAL ART – CONCEPTUAL ART] Pytania i odpowiedzi (tekst wiodący pleneru młodych – Miastko – 78) [Questions and answers (introductory text of the youth Plein air Miastko – 78]. Andrzej Kostołowski.

Kostołowski, Andrzej.

[POLISH UNOFFICIAL ART – CONCEPTUAL ART] Pytania i odpowiedzi (tekst wiodący pleneru młodych – Miastko – 78) [Questions and answers (introductory text of the youth Plein air Miastko – 78].

[Slupsk]: self-published, 1978. Octavo (14 × 12 cm). Original printed staple-stitched wrappers; 9 pp. Signed and inscribed by the author. Very good. Item #52667

An essay about the connection of art and nature written by the curator Andrzej Kostołowski for the open-air festival of artists, scholars, and art theorists held in Miastko in 1978. Over a period of two weeks, the festival featured happenings, performances, and presentations of unofficial gallery projects and developments in art theory by major names of Polish unofficial art, as well as artists from Czechoslovakia and Great Britain. The co-editor and organizer of the event, art historian Andrzej Kostołowski, saw the festival in the context of the Osieki plein-air workshops organised since 1963. In 1971 Kostołowski co-authored the NET manifesto, which called for “free circulation of artistic facts.” The plein-air format was another articulation of this interest in art breaking out of its typical institutional structures. In addition to art history, Kostołowski also held a degree in forestry and nature conservation, and his work in outdoor art festivals combined these interests with his focus on the arts. Printed at Slupsk near Danzig/Gdansk in a run of 250 copies.

As of February 2025, KVK, OCLC show a copy at Tate.