NYAB Event - Artur Zmijewski "Democracies, The Game of Tag, My Neighbors, Repetition, Singing Lesson 1, Them, 80064"

Artur Zmijewski "Democracies, The Game of Tag, My Neighbors, Repetition, Singing Lesson 1, Them, 80064"

548 W 22nd Street Building

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Artur Zmijewski will exhibit a selection of his groundbreaking videos on the second floor of X, offering to the American public the first large-scale presentation of his work to date, which coincides with his participation in the Projects series at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on view through February 2010. Ranging from social experiments to crude documentaries, from investigations of complex moral issues to descriptions of everyday conflicts, Zmijewski’s videos sketch a multifaceted fresco of humanity, depicted with the cold eye of a documentarian and the piety of a passionate witness. The first ever American mid-career survey of this artist, the exhibition will also feature the US premiere of one of his most ambitious works to date, Democracies, a video installation composed of 20 monitors documenting public events and protest scenes from around the world from various political credo. Images of rallies, strikes, and uprisings are combined with footage from reconstructions of historical events, parades and funerals of controversial political leaders.