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Piotr Uklanski
Artist's Name: Piotr Uklanski
Preferred medium: photography
birth year: 1968
Nationality: PL
City: New York

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"Bialo-Czerwona" (white-red), referring to Poland's bi-colored flag, is a nationalist slogan as familiar to Poles as "Red, White, and Blue" is to Americans. Uklanski's title unites diverse works that engage typical imagery of his native Poland and play on the red/white palette. Although BIALO-CZERWONA is, on one level, authentically Polish, in its use of populist decorative traditions and political symbols alluding to the country's not-so-distant Communist past the exhibition is also a highly stylized performance of identity. Throughout the exhibition, Uklanski utilizes humble materials to create works that draw on the celebratory ambitions and aggrandizing stagecraft of political events. By fusing such propagandist gestures with vernacular techniques and materials borrowed from popular folk traditions--exemplified in Szopkie Krakowskie (Christmas crèche scenes)and a site-specific mosaic fashioned from ceramic dishware-- he conjures an idealized vision of his homeland. Not only does Uklanski exploit the "exotic" quality of these indigenous forms; by reifying their very ordinariness, he elicits beauty from the confines of lo-fi objects. At once monumental and humble, collective and individual, profound and banal, theatrical and genuine, the works in BIALO-CZERWONA advance Uklanski's ongoing project to create deliberately unstable political, formal, and symbolic meaning in art. (Gagosian Gallery 21st Street - New York)

important exhibitions from Piotr Uklanski

Exhibition Location City Country Date
PIOTR UKLANSKI Secession Wien AT 20.09.2007
50. Biennale Venedig 2003 Biennale Venedig Venedig IT 15.06.2003
Piotr Uklanski Whitney Museum of American Art New York US 17.10.2007
Whitney Biennial 2010 Whitney Biennial New York US 25.02.2010
Piotr Uklanski Kunsthalle Basel Basel CH 17.06.2004
Mapping the Studio Punta della Dogana Venedig IT 06.06.2009
2010 Busan Biennale The Busan Biennale Busan KR 11.09.2010
Pop Life: Art in a Material World National Gallery of Canada Ottawa CA 01.06.2010
Piotr Uklanski Gagosian Gallery Madison Avenue New York US 27.03.2008
BIALO-CZERWONA Gagosian Gallery West 24th Street New York US 27.03.2008

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Galleries representing
Piotr Uklanski:

Gagosian Gallery - Rom
Gagosian Gallery Athen
Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills
Gagosian Gallery Britannia Street
Gagosian Gallery Davies Street
Gagosian Gallery Madison Avenue
Gagosian Gallery West 21st Street
Gagosian Gallery West 24th Street
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin Miami
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin St. Claude
Galleria Massimo De Carlo
Gavin Brown's enterprise

Collections representing
Piotr Uklanski

Deutsche Bank Collection
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Punta della Dogana
Rubell Family Collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Tate Britain
Tate St. Ives
The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw