Designers:
Agnieszka Bar, Aze design (Anna Kotowicz-Puszkarewicz + Artur Puszkarewicz), Beton (Marta Rowińska + Lech Rowiński), Agnieszka Czop and Joanna Rusin, Gogo (Maria Makowska + Piotr Stolarski), Kosmos Project (Ewa Bochen + Maciej Jelski), Bogdan Kosak, Malafor (Agata Kulik-Pomorska + Paweł Pomorski), Karina Marusińska, Bartosz Mucha, Monika Patuszyńska, Magdalena Trzcionka.
This year’s edition of Designer’s Days is held under the motto “conversations”, so it is an invitation to dialogue, exchange of views and opinions, discussions between designers and journalists, manufacturers and the public. The UNPOLISHED exhibition is also part of this trend, inviting visitors to talk about Polish design, Polish designers and their way of seeing the world around us.
The exhibition UNPOLISHED – YOUNG DESIGN FROM POLAND is a project whose main idea is to present the most interesting works and achievements of young Polish designers to the widest possible audience. To promote our design in the world. To prove that Polish design, which draws on the rich Polish experience and traditions, is a distinct phenomenon and thus attractive to European communities.
UNPOLISHED 7 – YOUNG DESIGN FROM POLAND / PARIS is the 7th edition of the exhibition of works by Polish designers, which was first presented to the European public in 2009 in Brussels. For the past 2 years, the exhibition has been successfully presented in major design centers, promoting Polish design and applied arts. The invitation of the UNPOLISHED 7 – YOUNG DESIGN FROM POLAND / PARIS exhibition to Paris is the best proof that Polish design is gaining more and more interest in the world, and that Polish creators count on international markets. The curators of the exhibition are recognized experts and authorities in the field of Polish and global design: Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka and Paweł Grobelny.
We first presented the works of young Polish designers in September 2009 at the DESIGN SEPTEMBER festival in Brussels. Polish artistic achievements aroused the interest of professionals – design experts and the public. It turned out that Polish design is attractive to the European audience, and our designers have interesting, surprising and unique ideas. – explains Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka, curator of the exhibition. Thus, the UNPOLISHED exhibition has become a cyclical project – after all, every year new creators appear, there are more and more interesting artistic projects worth showing in Europe. Each edition shows the best and most representative works of Polish designers.
Most of the designers and design groups presenting their works at the exhibition belong to the generation of 30-year-olds. This is, according to the curators, the most interesting group of Polish artists. Brilliantly educated, they not only design, but also produce and promote their own work. Many of them have already gained recognition in the world and successfully compete with designers from other countries.
When selecting works and designers, we looked for the most characteristic elements of Polish design, features that distinguish us from other designers. When preparing such exhibitions, we are always faced with the question of what do we actually want to prove? Is it that Poles design like everyone else? Or that they design differently from everyone else? – points out Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka. Certainly the process of creation and selection of materials is special. Designers reach for materials that are accessible, inexpensive and natural: wood, osb and mdf boards, fi lc, or recycled materials. They also most often make their objects themselves or with the help of local craftsmen. Most of the presented works are prototypes, uniques or limited series.
Some artists are inspired by Polish tradition, material culture or craftsmanship. Many works are characterized by humor, irony, balancing on the border between design and art, a perverse sense of humor or distance from classic definitions of design. Such are the works of Agnieszka Bar or Concrete. Yet another theme is the fascination with material, texture and manufacturing technology, particularly noticeable in the works of Monika Patuszyńska, Magdalena Trzcionka or Karina Marusińska.
The exhibition UNPOLISHED 7 – YOUNG DESIGN FROM POLAND / PARIS presents the most characteristic achievements of Polish contemporary design by 12 Polish designers and design groups: Agnieszka Bar, Aze design (Anna Kotowicz-Puszkarewicz + Artur Puszkarewicz), Beton (Marta Rowińska + Lech Rowiński), Agnieszka Czop and Joanna Rusin, Gogo (Maria Makowska + Piotr Stolarski), Kosmos Project (Ewa Bochen + Maciej Jelski), Bogdan Kosak, Malafor (Agata Kulik-Pomorska + Paweł Pomorski), Karina Marusińska, Bartosz Mucha, Monika Patuszyńska, Magdalena Trzcionka.
The exhibition UNPOLISHED 7 – YOUNG DESIGN FROM POLAND / PARIS was organized through the efforts of the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola (www.muzeum.stalowawola.pl) and the Polish Institute in Paris (www.institutpolonais.fr) with the support of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Paris, Service de la Promotion du Commerce et des Investissements, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Paris.
UNPOLISHED 7 – YOUNG DESIGN FROM POLAND / PARIS
June 16-19, 2011
as part of Designer’s Days,
Pavillon de l’Arsenal, 21 boulevard Morland, 75004 Paris
www.designersdays.com
www.pavillon-arsenal.com
www.unpolished.pl
curators of the exhibition
AGNIESZKA JACOBSON-CIELECKA – curator of many exhibitions and journalist, expert and popularizer of contemporary design in Poland and abroad. Since 2008 artistic director and curator of exhibitions at the Łódź Design Festival (www.lodzdesign.com). She cooperates with many cultural institutions in Poland and abroad, organizing exhibitions of Polish and international design, including: UNPOLISHED – YOUNG DESIGN FROM POLAND together with Paweł Grobelny (2009), NATURAL RESOURCES OF POLISH DESIGN (2009), POLSKA FOLK (2010), MATERIA PRIMA (2010), DZIECINADA (2010). He is also involved in the popularization of design and designers. In 2000-2007 she was editor-in-chief of the Polish edition of Elle Decoration. Graduate of the painting department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk.
PAWEŁ GROBELNY – designer and curator of design exhibitions, studied at the Academies of Fine Arts in Poznan, Lyon and Paris.
Winner of numerous design competitions including “LVMH Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy for Young Creators 2005/2006″, ‘Parckdesign 2008″, ’Prodeco 2006 – Young Designer”, “Prodeco 2008″, ‘Machina Design Award 2009″ and honorable mention in the competition ’The new subjectivity in design” organized by the Zachęta National Gallery in Warsaw and the British Council. In 2009, he was selected as one of the 100 Young Creative European Talents as part of the European Union’s Year of Creativity and Innovation. He is the author of benches for the Albertine gardens in Brussels and Zhongshan in Shanghai, and has designed numerous public interiors in Poland as well as Belgium, France and Spain. His works have been exhibited in Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, New York, Marseille, Paris, Seoul and Tokyo Design Week, among others.
additional information:
Joanna Lozinska,
e-mail: joanna.lozinska@prinfo.pl; www.unpolished.pl
tel: +48 660 41 41 02
