Unité

Marek Wasilewski

Curatorial advice: Liliana Orbach
26.01-10.02.2023

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Marek Wasilewski's Unité refers to Berlin’s Unité d’Habitation, a specific building that was constructed in 1958, according to the concept and design of the French architect Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier’s main purpose was, according to his words: “To provide with silence and solitude before the sun, space and greenery, a dwelling which will be the perfect receptacle for the family" and to "set up, in God's good nature, under the sky and in the sun, a magisterial work of architecture, the product of rigor, grandeur, nobility, happiness and elegance.” Wasilewski’s prints and video works aim to question Le Corbusier's conception of the ideal city and the ideal housing as tools for disciplining and shaping human life through a particular way of living.
Polish artist Marek Wasilewski studied at Saint Martin's College of Art and Design in London (1998) and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland (1993). Between the years 2000-2017 he was the editor-in-chief of the cultural magazine Time of Culture (Czas Kultury). He is professor at the University of Arts in Poznań and also director of the Arsenal Municipal Gallery in Poznań. He has published articles in art journals, and has also written three art-related books to date.

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