Marathon of Unrest

Leszek Knaflewski (b. 1960) died unexpectedly on 6 September 2014. He was an artist, musician, teacher and friend of young artists. He was associated with Poznań all his life. In the late 1970s and early 1980s he played drums in punk and post-punk bands: Rasa, Sten and Socrealizm, and co-founded Poznan's first new wave club Dno. He entered the art scene in 1983, leaving punk at the same time. Studying in the painting studio of Prof. Jerzy Kałucki, from which he graduated with distinction, he went beyond the painting plane into the third dimension. He wrote at the time: 'There comes a moment in one's work when one has the urge to make a hole in the painting, to paint a calm sea and then to take a ride on it in a motorboat.' 

[an excerpt from Michał Woliński's text for the "Gazeta Wyborcza" daily]

I had a few conversations with Knaf about the 1980s and the Koło Klipsa ['clip circle' or 'wheel of a clip' or 'near a clip']. The story of how the group's name came about stuck with me. Mariusz Kruk suggested the word 'koło'. Apparently he picked it up from the floor. It was printed on a piece of paper. There was fatigue, alcohol and a lot of scattered newspapers. Knaf added 'klips'. It was detached from another piece of paper. An exquisite corpse. They fell to the floor, the couch, and laughed. 

[an excerpt from Michał Woliński's text for the "Szum" magazine] 

This will be the first solo exhibition of Knaf's work at the gallery since his sudden and unexpected death. The presentation will consist of works from the late 1980s.