Main entry:

Murawski, Michał, author.

Title & Author:

A form of friendship : the museum on the square / Michał Murawski ; with contributions from Zygmunt Borawski, Marta Ejsmont, Tomasz Fudala, Taras Gembik, Marlena Happach, Agata Jakubowska, Dorota Jędruch, Yulia Krivich, Joanna Mytkowska, Thomas Phifer, Deyan Sudjic, Sarah Wilson, Maja Wirkus, and Artur Żmijewski.

Publication:

Warsaw : Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, 2024.
©2024

Description:

248 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Michał Murawski -- After the battle, an amputated form of friendship returns / Michał Murawski -- Part I -- Form -- Part II -- Friendship -- Part III -- Battle -- Eviction of traders from the KDT Traders' Hall / Artur Żmijewski -- Bare friendship, future friendship: Sarah Wilson, Agata Jakubowska, and Michał Murawski in conversation -- The "sunflower" solidarity community center as a form and structure of friendship: Yulia Krivich, Taras Gembik, and Michał Murawski in conversation -- We no longer have to erase anything: Zygmunt Borawski, Marlena Happach, Dorota Jędruch, and Michał Murawski in conversation -- The building of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw 2005-2024 / Tomasz Fudula -- What a container can do: Thomas Phifer, Deyan Sudjic, Joanna Mytkowska, and Michał Murawski in conversation -- The museum and the square 2020-2023 / Marta Ejsmont -- The museum and the square 2024 / Maja Wirkus.

Summary:

"Warsaw's Parade Square, where the MSN building designed by Thomas Phifer stands, is a unique place and a meaningful context for the museum. The square, over which the palace of culture looms, was Poland's center of communist state life. Later, it was the arena for the formation of Polish capitalism, with market stalls and gleaming office towers sprouting up around it. This is where fierce land reprivatization disputes erupted, and where newcomers to Warsaw first arrive on trains and buses - including refugees from Ukraine under attack from Russia. Michał Murawski interweaves these threads, pinpointing the "spatio-temporal and infrastructural nexus" in which the new museum exists, and proposing an institutional "ideology" to emerge from it. The author's tour-de-force essay introduces a narrative, further explored through conversations with experts in art, architecture, and activism. A timeline summarizes the complex history of MSN's new building. The guide throughout this story is Alina Szapocznikow's 1954 sculpture Friendship, which for almost forty years welcomed those entering the palace, only to later disappear from view, and now returns, albeit in an amputated form, to the square - in the Museum of Modern Art."-- Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9788367598156 hardcover
8367598156 hardcover

Subject:

Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie History 21st century.
Art museums Poland Warsaw Design and construction.
Art, Polish 20th century.
Art, Polish 21st century.
Musées d'art Pologne Varsovie Conception et construction.
Art polonais 20e siècle.
Art polonais 21e siècle.
Art museums Design and construction
Poland History 21st century.
Pologne Histoire 20e siècle.
Pologne Histoire 21e siècle.
Poland Warsaw

Form/genre:

essays.
History
Essays.
Essais.

Added entries:

Borawski, Zygmunt, author.

Museum on the square

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320916
Call No.: 320916
Copy: 1
Status: Available