Zbigniew Libera / The Flat Reality

Both Masters and Positives were received very positively by viewers and critics. After the premiere show in Atlas Sztuki the works of Zbigniew Libera were shown in Luxembourg, Sopot, Wroclaw, Marseille, Poznan, Plock, Paris, Sofia, Regensburg, Budapest, Ann Arbor, Prague (twice), Bratislava, Koszyce, Berlin, Bialystok, Zielona Gora, Zagreb, Dresden and Warsaw (in many places both projects were shown together, in some just one of them). The Flat Reality is a next project of Zbigniew Libera, in which the artist, in the ironic way, refers to a commercial photography. In the text accompanying the exhibition prof. Marta Lesniakowska notices that Zbigniew Libera “wants to prove that the theory of the flat reality is real. To reach this goal he uses not really a car as a canonical product of modern culture, but rather its image. The reality is flat, says Libera, because we see it “borrowed” by an image, which is responsible for the stereotypization of seeing. And if it is so, what is going to happen if we try to restitute this image into a three-dimensional reality, which is a source of an image? And how will this restituted reality present itself? In other words: what will be the result of such a hyper-constructivism conversion?”. According to Bozena Czubak, the author of the second text published in this catalogue, and the curator of the exhibition Plaska Rzeczywistosc (The Flat Reality): “Zbigniew Libera in the newest project reconstructs this flat world in the third dimension, bringing back to vision its invisible areas”. The curator of the exhibition also points out that in his newest work “Zbigniew Libera expands on the topics which he touched in his previous realizations concerning consumption culture, the mechanisms of seeing and ways of perception of the visual culture surrounding us”. In the catalogue from the exhibition we publish a conversation of Bozena Czubak with Zbigniew Libera. I encourage you to read all of the texts prepared in reference to the newest exhibition of Zbigniew Libera. In the so-far history of Atlas Sztuki, Zbigniew Libera is the second artist (next to Ilyi and Emilia Kabakov) whom we invited to show his individual exhibition.