http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/PiotrUklanski Recent or recently updated pages on the Whitney Museum of American Art website &copy; 2012 Whitney Museum of American Art en-us Economy <p><font color="#7f7f7f">Exhibitions/2010Biennial/PiotrUklanski</font></p> <p><a href="http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/PiotrUklanski"><img border="0" src="/image_columns/0015/1326/blank_319.png" /></a></p> <div><p>Suspended in front of <i>Untitled (The Year We Made Contact) </i>&mdash; a textile painting made of woven layers of natural fibers &mdash; is <i>Untitled (Red Dwarf)</i> &mdash; a round painting composed of thick resin impasto. This installation&#8217;s dramatic effect recalls the visually expressive stage designs created by Polish artists of the 1950s and 1960s, such as Tadeusz Kantor and Josef Szajna. The rough textures of the sweeping jute and hemp textile also deliberately draw attention to similar aspects of the Brutalist architecture of the Whitney&#8217;s Marcel Breuer&#8217;s building. Yet while certain modernist art and architecture traditions figure heavily in Uklański&#8217;s practice, this work manifests the ever-changing formal and material parameters of Uklański&#8217;s art.</p></div> Whitney Museum of American Art Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:28:45 -0400 http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/PiotrUklanski http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2010Biennial/PiotrUklanski