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Ryszard Górecki. Ornitologia w służbie NATO | Ryszard Górecki. Ornithology in the Service of NATO

Part of the collection: Critical and post-critical art

Popularization note

Ornithology in the Service of NATO is an object book created by Ryszard Górecki (1956-) as part of a series of fictional publications released by the non-existent Invisible Sign Publishing House in 2008-2009. Most of the nine books published at that time deal with various aspects of militarism. The thread of critical interest in militarism is ever-present and firmly embedded in the artist's biographical experience. Górecki grew up in Słubice, on the Polish-German border, where in the 1960s life revolved around military units and two large barracks complexes. Górecki's father was a professional soldier, and his grandfather was a veteran of the First World War, an amateur naturalist and a staunch pacifist. As a boy, Górecki had a brief interest in aviation, collecting aviation books and magazines, drawing air battles and assembling model aircraft. This passion was soon replaced by an interest in ornithology and anti-militarist beliefs. The motif of a fighter plane formed from a flock of flying birds, which appears on the cover of the work on display, brilliantly combines both childhood fascination with mature artistic reflection and a perverse sense of humour. Magdalena Lewoc

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Information about this object Ryszard Górecki. Ornitologia w służbie NATO | Ryszard Górecki. Ornithology in the Service of NATO

Author / creator

Górecki, Ryszard (1956- )

Object type

found object, book

Technique

digital printing

Material

paper

Origin / acquisition method

donation

Creation time / dating

2009

Creation / finding place

powstanie: Berlin (Niemcy)

Owner

Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie

Identification number

MNS/Sp/1908/7

Location / status

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