Galeria LDK Labirynt, Lublin.

[POLISH NEO-AVANT-GARDE – CONCEPTUALISM] Polska Oferta 76 [Polish offer 76].

Lublin: Galeria LDK Labirynt, 1976. Original printed tan paper envelope measuring 22 × 31.5 cm, housing 36 leaves printed to rectos and versos, three unbound folded pamphlets, one staple-stitched pamphlet with illustrated self-wrappers, and one side-stapled pamphlet with eight leaves printed to rectos and versos. Envelope lightly creased along edges; small hole to front of envelope; still about very good. Item #55183

An early catalog of one of the most dynamic independent galleries in Communist Poland, published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Gallery in December 1976. Designed as a kind of archive of Galeria Labirynt, this set of close to forty artist texts is printed on individual leaves with illustrations to versos, and is assembled in a single envelope resembling a piece of mail art, a form especially popular in this period. Founded in 1969, and led by the art historian Andrzej Mroczek, Galeria Labirynt focused especially on conceptual art, performance, as well as photography, film, and video art. The 1976 exhibition was curated by Mroczek, who aimed to capture "contemporary artistic trends" in collaboration with major figures of the Polish avant-garde such as Henryk Stażewski, who spoke at the opening, as well as representatives of the Polish neo-avant-garde Zbigniew Dłubak (Permafo group), Jozef Robakowski (Film Form Workshop), and the Czech concrete poet Jiří Valoch, whose critical texts are included in the packet. In leading Labirynt, Mroczek brought many important international artists to the gallery, with more than half of the artists included in the present set coming from outside of Poland, such as Imre Bak, Gabor Attalai (Hungary), Mac Adams (USA), and Christian Boltanski (France), among many others. The critical texts in the catalog are printed in English and Polish, clearly aiming to attract an international audience. The Gallery stopped operation during the Martial Law in 1981 and would reopen in 1982 under the new title Labirynt 2.

As of June 2025, not located in KVK, OCLC (The pink pamphlet with critical texts is held by Princeton as a separate publication).

Price: €2,000.00

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