Katarzyna Kozyra

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Katarzyna Kozyra came to the attention of the international art I world with the video of her intrusion into an all-male bathhouse, earning her honorable mention at the Venice Biennale in 1999. Since 2003 she has been working on In Art Dreams Come True, a project consisting of a series of performances, quasi-theatrical productions, audience-engaging happenings, and films, in creating the individual works, Kozyra has acted as director, chief performer, and as "raw material" in the hands of two master guides who assist her in assuming various roles. Gloria Viagra, the Berlin-based drag queen whom the artist sees as a model of "true femininity," and I the voice coach Grzegorz Pitutej, known as the Maestro, introduce Kozyra into worlds saturated with artificiality, convention, and posing. These features are central to each of Kozyra's artistic embodiments, which include an opera diva, a drag queen, a cheerleader, Olympia from Offenbach's opera. Snow White, and many others.
Katarzyna... Tovább

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Katarzyna Kozyra came to the attention of the international art I world with the video of her intrusion into an all-male bathhouse, earning her honorable mention at the Venice Biennale in 1999. Since 2003 she has been working on In Art Dreams Come True, a project consisting of a series of performances, quasi-theatrical productions, audience-engaging happenings, and films, in creating the individual works, Kozyra has acted as director, chief performer, and as "raw material" in the hands of two master guides who assist her in assuming various roles. Gloria Viagra, the Berlin-based drag queen whom the artist sees as a model of "true femininity," and I the voice coach Grzegorz Pitutej, known as the Maestro, introduce Kozyra into worlds saturated with artificiality, convention, and posing. These features are central to each of Kozyra's artistic embodiments, which include an opera diva, a drag queen, a cheerleader, Olympia from Offenbach's opera. Snow White, and many others.
Katarzyna Kozyra zyskata mi^dzynarodowa, staw^ dzi^ki instalacji wideo ukazuja,cejjej wtargni^cie dotazni m^skiej, nagrodzonej wy-roznieniem honorowym na Biennale w Wenecji w 1999. Od 2003 roku Katarzyna Kozyra realizuje projekt W sztuce marzenia stajq si^ rzeczywistosciq, obejmuja^cy seri? performansow, spektakli para-I teatralnych, happeningow z udziatem publicznosci oraz filmow. Kozyra jest tu zarowno rezyserem, gtownym aktorem, jak i tworzy-wem w r^kach swoich mistrzow-przewodnikow, ktorzy pomagaja^ I jej wcielac si^ w rozne role. Zarowno Gloria Viagra, berlinska drag queen, dla artystki wzor „prawdziwej kobiecoki", jak i Maestro, nauczyciel spiewu operowego Grzegorz Pitu-lej - wprowadzaja, swa, uczennic^ w swiat peten sztucznoki, konwencji i pozy. Takie tez sta-I je si^ kazde z artystycznych wcieleh Kozyry - diwy operowej, drag queen, Olimpii z opery Offenbacha czy bajkowej Krolewny Sniezki.
240 pages / stron
244 color illustrations / barwne ilustracje
Hatje Cantz Vissza