Krzysztof Wodiczko: Guests

Krzysztof Wodiczka's artistic career has been going on for over forty years. Born in 1943 in Warsaw, the artist has been working and living in North America since 1977. Since leaving Poland, he has been engaged in the education of students in addition to artistic activities. Since 1994, Professor Krzysztof Wodiczko has been the director of the Centre for Advanced Visual Studies at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2007, he received his doctorate Honoris causa Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. In his works, he uses public space for social and political projections. During the years of the artist's activity, his works were admired in many places around the world. Despite his success, the artist continues to create intensively, continuing his triumphal march through renowned world galleries and museums. In the introduction to the catalogue issued in connection with the presentation of the project Guests Krzysztof Wodiczka in the Polonia Pavilion at 53. At the International Art Exhibition in Venice in 2009, the Commissioner of the Polish Pavilion and Director of the Zachęta of the National Art Gallery, Dr. Agnieszka Morawińska, wrote: "The great success of the artist is that he was able to touch painful places in so many places, in various parts of the world, among different stories and cultures, and through monumental projections to show them to a large number of people". And it was no different with Guests In Venice. 
All important world newspapers wrote about Krzysztof Wodiczka's project, from Corriere della Sera, through Le Figaro, Le Monde, ABC, The Sunday Times, Boston Globe, Die Tageszeitung and New York Times. The industry press has devoted a lot of space to the artist's latest project. Everyone noticed the merits of the project, and Hanna Wróblewska, who was involved in its production, Deputy Director of the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, immediately after the opening of the exhibition in Venice, wrote in a letter to me: "The projections turned out beautifully and I think all co-producers are filled with pride". It is worth adding that Krzysztof Wodiczko 23 years ago, in 1986, represented Canada at the Venice Biennale.

Atlas Sztuki, who was the co-producer of the exhibition in Venice, invites you to his exhibition space with great pleasure. The curator of the exhibition in Łódź, as well as in Venice, is Bożena Czubak. I wonder how Guests, in the new arrangement, they will present themselves in Atlas Sztuki.

In the catalogue prepared in connection with the exhibition in Atlas Sztuki, I highly recommend reading an essay by Bożena Czubak on the subject of Guests. This text was originally published in a catalogue published in connection with an exhibition in Venice. I also recommend the second text on the project by Adam Mazur. It is also mandatory to read the transcript of the conversation with Krzysztof Wodiczka after the premiere Guests Bożena Czubak conducted in Venice.