Kwietniewski, Andrzej.

[POLISH UNOFFICIAL ART – CONCEPTUAL ART] My name is Andy K.

Łódź: self-published, [late 1980s]. Small octavo (13.3 × 10 cm). Original red felt wrappers; blank leaf, title leaf, followed by ten blank leaves with a single gelatin silver print mounted to rectos. Signed and inscribed by the artist to first blank leaf in felt pen. Very good. Item #55154

An artist book by conceptual artist Andrzej Kwietniewski, possibly a tribute to Andy Warhol who passed away in 1987. Playfully pointing to the shared first name “Andy” and echoing the style of Andy Warhol, the artist book proposes a kind of dialog between the two artists. A founding member of the neo-dadaist art collective and performance art group Łódź Kaliska (1979), Andrzej Kwietniewski (b. 1951) had no formal training in the arts. The group’s first manifesto, written by Marek Janiak and Andrzej Kwietniewski, appeared in 1980. The text typed in Polish and English, self-consciously parodied the manifesto as the signature genre of the avant-garde, while attempting to connect to the international audience by using English as well as polish in their texts. Numerous mock-manifestos appeared throughout the 1980s, using logical errors to articulate gibberish ethical codes. Kwietniewski would continue to make work on his own, as well as with Łódź Kaliska. This work is stamped with his name and address to inside rear cover, as part of Kwietniewski’s joke on the trademark aspect of the circulation of art.

As of May 2025, not in KVK, OCLC.

Price: €1,500.00

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