Adam Rzepecki

The work was created as a response to the cult of the Mother Pole spread by the propaganda of late communist regime.

En plein air in Miastko, in the struggle for eight-hour work- ing day, Adam Rzepecki for 8 hours (with breaks for meals) was holding a brick hanged on a rope. the action was often interpreted as a mockery of the socialist model of work. In fact, however, it was an appeal to artists to work properly for 8 hours a day, like all other ordinary working people.

The photograph was made in Moderna Museet in Stock- holm. Rzepecki took advantage of the distraction of the security guard by sticking his nose to the “Large Glass” in order to greet Marcel Duchamp.

The work was made at a time when Rzepecki was partic- ularly interested in Marcel Duchamp. The phrase referred to his film script titled “The Meeting” and the scene when Tristan Tzara and Marcel Duchamp knock on the door of Adam’s studio in Kraków. Rzepecki greets them, at the same time saying goodbye with words: “I know DADA, please go out”. The current fate of the film is not known. It is only known that it once appeared in Amsterdam.

Adam Rzepecki together with his friends came to Warsaw to make a presentation about current activities of “Kultura Zrzuty” in the gallery Dziekanka. Upon arrival it turned out that the gallery was closed. During the walk down Kra- kowskie Przedmieście street they took a photo that has be- come kind of a summary of the trip. Simple, well-known and understood gesture was a short comment to the situa- tion of the national artistic community. Since martial law this environment was clearly divided. Some artists bound to the official stream, enjoying all the benefits (shows in galleries, state scholarships). The second group was hiding “under the wings” of the Church, but this type of artistic activity was considered – even by Kultura Zrzuty – dead in the ideological terms. This simple gesture in front of the Ministry on Krakowskie Przedmieście was a signal, that there is a third group, which offers independent art (from the “reds” and the “blacks” – how they called themselves). The photograph was taken by Marek Grygiel.

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The inscription was made en famous avantgarde plein air in Osieki.

This work was made en plein air in Teofilów. The person to whom Adam passes the brick is Andrzej Różycki.