Rzepecki, Adam.

[POLISH UNOFFICIAL ART – CONCEPTUAL ART] PLUM.

Kraków: self-published, 1984. Octavo (20.5 × 14.5 cm). Original side-stapled black card wrappers; [4] leaves of text and illustrations to rectos only, interleaved with two calques. Light wear to spine; else very good. Item #55152

An artist book by one of the founding members of Łódź Kaliska, Adam Rzepecki, with xerox reproduced photographs of the various messages he graffitied at outdoor art festivals in Poland in the early 1980s. Working under the slogan “I pretend to be an artist” Adam Rzepecki (b. 1950) studied Art History at the Jagellonian University in Kraków, his later artistic work continually referring to the history of art, re-working, tweaking, and thereby commenting on artistic practice. In his student days, Rzepecki created a series of photographs titled “Living Images”, re-staging famous paintings from the history of art, a signature practice of Lódź Kaliska, the group he co-founded in 1979, after meeting Marek Janiak a year earlier at the Poznań art festival. Their banner “Temple of embarrassing art” stretched over the festival grounds at Osieki 81 would be the first direct attack on the Polish neo-avant-garde, and signaled the arrival of neo-Dada. The present book contains images of his 1981 Osieki graffiti “I pretend to be an artist” and “With difficulty, however, consistently, I pretend to be an artist” from an exhibition in Łódź.

No. 9 of 11 numbered copies. Creating a limited edition and signing the item was part of Rzepecki joke on the circulation of art.

As of May 2025, not in KVK, OCLC.

Price: €1,200.00

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