Nelly Agassi, Pleasure Garden
about 16 months ago (09/01/2023)
Nelly Agassi, Pleasure Garden - Galeria Foksal Polski English GALERIA FOKSAL #Las Rzeczy Exhibitions Artists About gallery Contact Nelly Agassi Nelly Agassi, Pleasure Garden September 1, 2023 opening: 1 September (Fri.), 6:00 pm 1.09-14.10.2023 curator / text: Aleksandra Kędziorek The Soft Tangle sculpture was made in collaboration with Jonah Evron Agassi, the artist’s son English translation by Caryl Swift post-production of collages Karol Bagiński sound / composition / electronic resonators Ryan Packard harpsichord Andrew Rosenblum field recording by Boryslaw Kozielski, Bródnowski forest, Warsaw, Poland; recorded inside Warsaw forest with a Zoom H-5 This site-specific installation by Nelly Agassi is inspired by the origins of the word ‘Foksal’, the street from which the gallery takes its name. In it, the artist investigates the biography of the place, Foksal, a story which ranges from the eighteenth-century Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in London after which it was named to the Foksal Gallery and the history of the artistic avant-garde bound up with it. Agassi reaches back to the year 1776 and the suburban area of Warsaw where a banker and a royal valet, Fryderyk Kabryt and Franciszek Ryx, respectively, founded Foksal, a spot designed for the entertainment of the loftier spheres of society and modelled on Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.