| Abstrakt: |
The text deals with the art criticism of Joanna Sitkowska-Bayle, an art, film and photography critic, living in Paris since the early 1980s. The reader is introduced to a variety of aspects of her writings (critical texts in Polish art magazines, e.g. “Art & Business”, texts for catalogues, exhibition essays and descriptions, reviews of art fairs, etc.) devoted to the work of six Polish female artists (Joanna Flatau, Grażyna Remiszewska, Ewa Kuryluk, Gabriela Morawetz, Małgorzata Paszko, Aliska Lahusen), who have lived in France since the 1980s and 1990s. The criticism is mainly of a popularising character. In an interesting and exhaustive way, through the prism of exhibitions and visits to the studios of Polish representatives of various generations, the author introduces the issues related to their work, extensive issues undertaken, or the media they use. The art critic places them not so much in the circle of an artistic colony (foreign artists in Paris, as it used to be in reference to, for example, the École de Paris), but in the cosmopolitan context of the artistic community in France. He appreciates their special contribution to the representation of Polish art and culture in exile. Writing about the art of female artists in exile has been presented in the broader context of Sitkowska-Bayle’s rich critical output in the areas of contemporary art, film and photography. over a period of thirty-five years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
