The idea behind the action is simple: to meet at the 'ARENA Living Monument' in order to continue pursuing the idea of this unique work. And the Author's intention was to paint annually, in spring, the roots with which the dead tree standing on the ARENA faces upwards. The roots are the crown of this tree, and the crown should turn green in spring. Therefore, our presence with paint and brushes is needed. It is only with a lively presence and fresh greenery that a dead tree becomes a Living ARENA Monument.

This year, spring has surprised the organisers of the painting campaign, because the trees are not only greening up strongly, they are blooming like crazy. The cycle of nature, however, is not the only cycle to which our lives are subjected. There are many different cycles, such as the official ... This year, the falloff of nature in relation to other cycles will be offset by the fact that the painting action will take place on the Author's name day.

The Entropia Gallery, organising this unforced, ritualistic event, particularly dedicates it to admirers of trees and greenery, connoisseurs of art, lovers of outdoor sculpture, amateurs of action in the public space, and, above all, to people who are close to the figure of Jerzy Bereś. Also invited to take part in the action are representatives of the artistic community who were involved in the realisation and further fate of the artistic projects of the famous Wrocław'70 Art Symposium, as well as pedagogues of the Department of Art Mediation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław who, together with their students, realised this project in previous years.

"Living Monument ARENA" is one of 72 works-concepts intended for urban space that were created on the occasion of the famous Wrocław'70 Visual Arts Symposium. It was a broad, nationwide review of avant-garde artistic attitudes, in which 39 leading Polish artists took part. Of the projects presented, only two were realised at the time: the ephemeral Unlimited Vertical Composition by Henryk Stażewski and the partly 'Living Monument ARENA', which had undergone various vicissitudes since its first realisation (1972). It was only 40 years after the Symposium'70 in 2010 that the concept of the 'Living Monument' was realised in its entirety, as it presents itself today. The author himself was present at the unveiling/opening. Pedagogues from the Department of Art Mediation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, together with their students, took care of Jerzy Bereś's project until 2018. From 2019, the project - carrying out a spring painting action - is taken care of by the Entropia Gallery in cooperation with the Maria Pinińska-Bereś and Jerzy Bereś Foundation in Krakow, which is the heir to the artistic legacy of this outstanding couple.

organiser: Galeria Entropia

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