Weronika Plinska – Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland
DOI: 10.12835/ve2017.2-0089
Abstract
This article is devoted to contemporary art and local communities. The author introduces the case of Daniel Rycharski’s relational art projects, focusing on his ‘totemic’ animal murals (2012) and Pomnik Chłopa (Monument to a Peasant, 2015). Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the Rycharski’s home village Kurówko near Sierpc in 2014-2015 (Central Poland) and in the cities of Cracow and Warsaw where his work was presented in 2015-2016, the article explores how Rycharski’s artworks generate a nexus of social relationships.
Keywords
Rural Communities, Contemporary Art, Poland, Ethnography, Monuments
