Igor OMULECKI (ur. 1973)

Knight from the Poland series

2005/2009
Lambda print, dibond, 100 x 100 cm,
signed and dated on the reverse,
edition: 1/2 a.p. (from edition 10 + 2 a.p.)

The best known of Omulecki`s photographs. The print comes from his exhibition during the Transphotographiques festival in Lille, France (2009). The picture was taken after the annual re-enactment of the Battle of Grunwald in 2005. The artist addresses such issues as Poland`s present-day entanglement in history and the Poles` dreams of their country being a superpower as demonstrated by the recreation of momentous historical events dating centuries back.
Exhibitions: New Documentalists, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2006); Transphotographiques 2009, Lille.
Publications: Adam Mazur, Histories of Photography in Poland 1839-2009 (Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych, 2009); Adam Mazur, The Decisive Moment. New Phenomena in Polish Photography after 2000 (Karakter, 2012).


estimate: 4500 - 6000 zł