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Bydgoszcz, Poland: Galeria Autorska Jana Kaji i Jacka Soli?skiego, 1980. Octavos (20 × 14.5 and 19.5 × 13.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 16 and [20] pp. of xerox-reproduced text and images. Light sun-tanning to wrappers; else very good. Galeria Autorska Jana Kaji i Jacka Soli?skiego was established in Bydgoszcz, Poland on June 16, 1979, as one of the first private galleries in Poland. The gallery was founded by painter Jan Kaja and graphic artist Jacek Soli?ski, both originally from Bydgoszcz. Together the two also issued a number of fine art monographs, aside from their own artistic output and various exhibitions held at the gallery. Kaja and Soli?ski described the gallery as "extra-institutional, independent, open, constantly searching and evolving." They showed works across various genres and fields including fine art, photography, conceptual art, poetry, literature, theater, and philosophy. Over the years, the gallery has put on over 800 exhibitions, installations, performances, concerts, and other events, with over 250 publications from the internal publishing house. Included here are two small booklets issued by Galeria Autorska in 1980. Numbered 18 and 21, respectively, they both are in regards to Polish artist Bogdan "Anastazy" Wi?niewski, also from Bydgoszcz. Wi?niewski worked in the fields of conceptual art, visual poetry, artist's books, and mail art. The first title is "Anastazy B. Wi?niewski, Wystawa Pokaz. Tradycja, Terazniejszosc, Przyszlosc - Galeria Autorska, 21.VI - 11.VII.80". The second is "Anastazy B. Wi?niewski - Zeznania kontestatora." As of March 2024, KVK, OCLC locate one holding in a North American institution of the second title, and none of the first.
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