Piotr Uklanski: Fatal Attraction

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Art appreciators and museum-goers interested in both contemporary art andhistorical art references in the themes of love and death, as well asphotography and photo-book aficionados will findPiotr Uklanski: Fatal Attractionespeciallyengaging. A previously under-the-radar artist, recognisiton of the New-York based artist Piotr Uklanski (born Poland, 1968) is growing alonside this book, and exhibitions.

Piotr Uklanski: Fatal Attractionaccompanies two retrospective exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this year,Piotr Uklanski: PhotographsandPiotr Uklanski: Selections from the Met Collection.Piotr Uklanski: Fatal Attractionpresents images from the Metcollection exhibition as well as an in-depthexamination of Uklanski's photographic oeuvre.Rosetta Brooks's extremely readable essay place Uklanski's workinto a mainstream cultural context, while Douglas Ecklund's essay focuses on hisspecific body of work,Joy of Photography.

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Piotr Uklanskiwas born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1968. He studiedpainting in the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and photography at the CooperUnion School for Advancement of Science and Art, in NY. Uklanski emerged on theNew York art scene in the mid-90s with an emblematic artwork, the Untitled(Dance Floor),a sculpture that integrates the legacy of minimalism with theblurring of art and entertainment that characterizes the current era. Uklanski has since constructed a diverse body of work that exploits as many types of media(sculpture, photography, collage, performance, and film) as it promiscuouslyabsorbs cultural references. His work has been internationally exhibited in variouscontexts including the MoMA and the Guggenheim Museum in NY,the 26th Sao Paolo Biennale 2004, Centre Pompidouin Paris, among others.

Rosetta Brooks is a renowned critic and arthistorian. She was the founder and editor of Zg Magazine (1980-86) and currently founder and publisher at Zg Press. She is also on thefaculty of Art Center in Pasadena.Douglas Ecklund is Curator of Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. HermannNitsch is an Austrian artist whose work draws parallels between religion and theritualistic spiritualism of creativity.