'A place is a sudden gap ...'

摘要

Introduction to the general Theory of Place (Wprowadzenie do ogolnej Teorii Miejsca, 1966), announced at the Symposium of Artists and Scientists in Putawy, was a founding text for the Foksal Gallery established in a small space in Foksal Street in Warsaw by a trio of art critics, Wiestaw Borowski, Anka Ptaszkowska and Mariusz Tchorek. Written by Mariusz Tchorek, the text positioned the place of exhibition as pivotal to art and its practice. In this text, place was conceptualised as a condition ofrncoming into contact with the work of art in a public situation, but it also constituted 'a sudden gap in the utilitarian approach to the world', a site for questioning art, the critical 'where' of the artwork and its conceptual and institutional context.