Text by Geoffrey Batchen, Patrick Javault.
In his mix of pop culture and fine art references, Polish-born artist Piotr Uklanski often examines controversial subjects, as in The Nazis, a spectacular series of film stills showing Hollywood...
Published on the occasion of the spring 2015 Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition Fatal Attraction: Piotr Uklański Photographs, and an accompanying exhibition—curated by Uklański—of works from the Met’s permanent collection, Piotr ...
"The celebrated Polish artist Piotr Uklański established himself in the mid 1990s for creating a diverse body of work that examines the ever changing relationship between identity, history and culture.
Delving into these dichotomies, 'Pornalikes' picks up where the cult series 'The Nazi's and 'Real Nazis', also published by Edition Patrick Frey, left off.
How serious an amateur is Uklanski the photographer? And what does his work have to say about photography today, or indeed life in general? These are the questions that haunt Uklanski's studiously innocuous pictures.