The city inspires all of us. It gives us freedom but also restricts it. It is incessantly modified and reconstructed; it constantly changes; it lives. Here, there’s enough space for spontaneity, imagination, and direct experience. And for the Arts.
We agree with the artist, Joanna Rajkowska, the author of a famous and controversial project “Greetings from Aleje Jerozolimskie” – an artificial palm tree at the Charles de Gaulle’s roundabout in Warsaw – that projects carried out in an open space resemble solar plexus; they generate energy, and the city would be dead without such initiatives.
The invited artists – Leszek Frydryszak, Ludwika Ogorzelec, Jerzy Kosałka, Renata Micherda- Jarodzka, Michał Pietrzak, Valeria Cocco, Marcin Fajfruk, Zbyszek Muziewicz, Marcin Sztukewicz oraz Stefan Wojnecki – presented their visions, their attitudes toward urban space, and their projects carried out in the streets of different cities.
“Graffiti often serves as my inspiration; however, not the street or the wall, but rather these are
the paper, steel plate, or canvas that constitute my artistic matter. I use acrylic spray paints,
elements of collage, steel plate, and wire. In painting, which is rather anti-aesthetic, I convey
captions and words not always legible for the spectator. “Hidden in an urban alley” (“Ukryty w
miejskim zaułku”) is a fragment of my works that constitute street art placed on the walls of the
museum in Kłodzko.”
Renata Micherda-Jarodzka
