Jakub Woynarowski is an artist, designer, and
independent curator who lives and works in Kraków, Poland. He is a graduate of
the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he currently teaches at the
Narrative Drawing Studio and conducts a course on Visual Narration. Recently,
he collaborated with the Institute of Architecture as author of the art concept
for the Polish Pavilion at the 14th Biennale of Architecture in Venice (2014).
Together with Aneta Rostkowska he runs a fictitious
institution of contemporary art, CCA Wawel Castle, as an expression of
"gonzo curating", a performative curatorial practice inspired by gonzo
journalism, which seeks to challenge art
institutions and established exhibition formats.
His
practice studies the feasibility of applying various forms of visual narration
as an instrument of theoretical reflection, and takes up themes associated with
the "archeology of the avant-garde", pointing out similarities
between ancient works of art and artistic achievements of the 20th century.
Woynarowski seeks inspiration in conspiracy theories and the iconography of
arcane knowledge systems – alchemy and freemasonry, and more specifically, in
the alphabetical characters and themes assigned to them. The slight
interference into established connotations allows for the playful recombination
of the detached components into one unit.
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