Łukasz Gorczyca - collecting imperfections

#10 min Pavel Vančát

28. 1. 2024

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Łukasz Gorczyca is not only an art historian, curator and gallerist, but also an avid collector of Polish socialist postcards. Pavel Vančát discussed his view of “socmodern” architecture, leisure and tourism through the prism of postcards and the changes in socialist elan and ethos.

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Łukasz Gorczyca is not only an art historian, curator and gallerist, but also an avid collector of Polish socialist postcards. Pavel Vančát discussed his view of “socmodern” architecture, leisure and tourism through the prism of postcards and the changes in socialist elan and ethos.

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Introduction

#5 min Pavel Vančát

Introduction

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Although the term “contemporary history” is actually a contradiction, it refers mostly to the period of history that we lived in and that still directly affects us and our present. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent events leading to the collapse of the Eastern bloc are still a subject of speculation and re-interpretations that often lack a broader context. Such a context has a lot of parallel dimensions: a historical, geopolitical, social and media one, or a personal, family and local one (if we talk about the “history of the present”).