Rafał Jaubowicz’s exhibition „Ein Lied” is a melancholic, silent and unpretentiously expressed story about the continuously returning subject of the Holocaust. The inspirations for Jakubowicz’s work were the view through the windows of Austrian Culture Forum in Warsaw (situated at Próżna Street), and a songbook found in the archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial. In his work, the author refers to a song entitled „Esterwegen”, sang by the prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, pointing out the machiavellic concept of merry singing in a death camp.
“Ein Lied” is the first exhibition by Rafał Jakubowicz presented in Krakow.
Rafał Jakubowicz
Born in 1974 in Poznan. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan at the Department of Artistic Education and Department of Painting, Graphic Arts and Sculpture. At present he is on doctoral studies at the Institute of Art History at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Author of Arbeitsdisziplin project (2002), depicting the Volkswagen factory in Poznan seen from behind a wire fence. This work was the object of institutional censorship – the exhibition presenting it in the Municipal Gallery Arsenal in Poznan was cancelled few days before its opening. Subjects of the World War II, Holocaust and memory are constantly present in Jakubowicz’s works, both in his installations (Swimming Pool, 2003/2006), realizations from Ulica Próżna exhibitions (2006, 2007) and in his paintings (Zugzwang series, 2003). Jakubowicz refers to Shoah also in his writings on the art of Mirosław Bałka, Elżbiera Janicka, Luc Tuymans and Gustav Metzger.
“Ein Lied” is the first exhibition by Rafał Jakubowicz presented in Krakow.
Rafał Jakubowicz
Born in 1974 in Poznan. Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan at the Department of Artistic Education and Department of Painting, Graphic Arts and Sculpture. At present he is on doctoral studies at the Institute of Art History at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Author of Arbeitsdisziplin project (2002), depicting the Volkswagen factory in Poznan seen from behind a wire fence. This work was the object of institutional censorship – the exhibition presenting it in the Municipal Gallery Arsenal in Poznan was cancelled few days before its opening. Subjects of the World War II, Holocaust and memory are constantly present in Jakubowicz’s works, both in his installations (Swimming Pool, 2003/2006), realizations from Ulica Próżna exhibitions (2006, 2007) and in his paintings (Zugzwang series, 2003). Jakubowicz refers to Shoah also in his writings on the art of Mirosław Bałka, Elżbiera Janicka, Luc Tuymans and Gustav Metzger.
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