Art, Memory and Angel by Czesław Dźwigaj
Journal Title: Annales Universitatis Pedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Arte et Educatione - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 264
Abstract
The article analyses the process of implementing the idea of commemorating the victims of December 70 in Szczecin. Disputes, discussions and decisions accompanying this monument are doubly symptomatic: they reveal a problem with the presence of contemporary art in public space, and the question of who and what should be the main purpose of commemo-rative sculpture. After 1989, the Szczecin agora reflected the political transition of the state, additionally characterised by the “short duration” complex (existence as a “Polish city” only after 1945). Art plays a role in ordering (and subordination) of public sphere, and, as such a tool (building politically handy identity symbols), it is perceived by the authorities. Its specificity, however, allows it to escape social and political control. The second area of con-sideration is the analysis of the relationship between commemorative function (desired by the founders) and the operation of contemporary art, in reference to the theory of cultural forms of memory. The three-dimensional urban game of visibility was played out in Szcze-cin around three public sculptures: two unrealised designs, and the final work by Czesław Dźwigaj.
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Jędrzej Wijas
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