Gerhard Jürgen Blum-Kwiatkowski: Intelligible Art without Violence

Collaborating with Gerhard Jürgen Blum-Kwiatkowski during the preparation of Argumenta was an extraordinary encounter with a cheerful and kindly man who describes himself as a creator of exceptional states. The success of Argumenta encouraged another meeting with the intelligible world. Before the presentation of Argumenta at Atlas Sztuki had ended, I was already discussing another exhibition with Gerhard Jürgen Blum-Kwiatkowski.

Intelligible Art without Violence is a presentation comprising more than one hundred works by twenty-nine artists from Germany, Poland, Austria, Israel, Japan and the Netherlands. Most of the works were prepared especially for this exhibition. Following its premiere at Atlas Sztuki, the exhibition will be shown in 2007 at Kunststation Kleinsassen in Germany and at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Exceptionally, this catalogue contains only one text—the manifesto of intelligible art by the exhibition’s curator, Gerhard Jürgen Blum-Kwiatkowski. Although it is a difficult and impassioned text, I warmly encourage you to read it attentively.

The exhibition Intelligible Art without Violence is also accompanied by another publication: a trilingual catalogue in Polish, German and English, prepared by Gerhard Jürgen Blum-Kwiatkowski for Atlas Sztuki, Kunststation Kleinsassen and the Israel Museum. To anyone interested in Gerhard Jürgen Blum-Kwiatkowski’s activities and work, I also recommend the extensive catalogue produced for the Argumenta exhibition at Atlas Sztuki, published last year in the August issue of the art monthly Arteon.

It is my pleasure to invite you to visit Atlas Sztuki and see the harmony, order and beauty of a world knowable only through reason.