{"id":3862,"date":"2022-12-11T18:34:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T17:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/?post_type=object&p=3862"},"modified":"2022-12-11T18:34:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T17:34:29","slug":"i-live-here-and-i-leave-mural","status":"publish","type":"object","link":"https:\/\/gaps.gda.pl\/en\/obiekt\/i-live-here-and-i-leave-mural\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Live Here and I Leave\u201d mural"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technique: <\/strong>monumental painting, acrylic paints<\/p>\n

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Object:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The entire surface of the mural is filled with portraits of men and women emerging from irregular, black geometric forms. The images form horizontal rows, with the faces in the largest scape placed in the bottom part of the composition. <\/em>In the upper parts of the painting, the faces becomes smaller with every row, becoming almost invisible at the top. <\/em>Miko\u0142aj Harmoza\u2019s composition titled \u201cI Live Here and I Leave\u201d was made in a rage of greys, purples, browns and pale pinks. <\/em><\/p>\n

The portraits include representations of local residents, e.g. the owner of the shop on whose wall the work is painted and accidental passers-by portrayed by the artist when he was working on this large-format work. <\/em>It is not by accident, though, that to the left of the composition we see the image of G\u00fcnter Grass, renowned writer, Nobel Prize winner, and one of the most famous residents of Wrzeszcz, whose family home was at 13 Labesweg before the war, currently named Joachima Lelewela Street. Grass is depicted en trois quarts with a characteristic wooden pipe in his mouth.<\/em><\/p>\n

The mural was created to accompany the first edition of Grassomania<\/em> Festival \u2013 Identity of Place (1-31 October 2009) organised by the Gda\u0144sk City Gallery and curated by Maria<\/em> Sasin<\/em>. The festival, attended by G\u00fcnter Grass himself, boasted a number of cultural events: exhibitions, performances, meetings and concerts dedicated to the Nobel Prize winner\u2019s oeuvre. This was also the official opening of the Gda\u0144sk G\u00fcnter Grass Gallery on Szeroka Street, a branch of the Gda\u0144sk City Museum.<\/p>\n

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The mural with G\u00fcnter Grass\u2019 portrait, reminding residents of the district of the authenticity and originality of this place, was partially damaged and painted over in the late 2021. New writings appeared on some fragments at the bottom.<\/p>\n

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Place:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The mural is located on the side wall of a small free-standing service building (multi-purpose store) where Joachima Lelewela Street in Lower Wrzeszcz \u2013 the street where G\u00fcnter Grass spent his childhood and youth \u2013 joins Gen. J\u00f3zefa Wybickiego Square. Near the mural, on Wybickiego Square, stands a bench with sculptures depicting G\u00fcnter Grass and Oskar Matzerath, the protagonist of one of the writer\u2019s most famous books, The Tin Drum.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Information about the author:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Miko\u0142aj Amadeusz Harmoza (b. 1973 in Wa\u0142brzych) is a painter, draughtsman and educator.<\/p>\n

He completed the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Gdynia and studied at the Faculty of Painting, Prof. Mieczys\u0142aw Olszewski\u2019s studio, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gda\u0144sk, graduating with honours in 1999. Since 2002, he has been working at his alma mater<\/em>, running the Drawing Studio for design studies. Since 2003, he has arranged his works in series based on their subject: Walls Have Ears <\/em>(2003\u20132008), Conjectured Portraits <\/em>(2003), The Polish Moustache <\/em>(2005\u20132008), Pars Pro Toto <\/em>(2011), Around the Portrait <\/em>(2012\u20132013), Hypothetical Portraits <\/em>(2013).<\/p>\n

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Condition of the object:<\/strong> damaged, awaiting renovation<\/p>\n

Owner\/guardian: <\/strong>privately owned<\/p>\n

Author of the entry:<\/strong> Andrzej Zagrobelny<\/p>\n

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