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Piotr Uklański
Polish-American artist
Piotr Uklański | |
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| Born | 1968 (age 56–57) Warsaw, Poland |
| Education | Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, director, photographer |
| Notable work | The Nazis (1998) Untitled (John Paul II) (2004) |
| Partner | Alison Gingeras |
Piotr Uklański (born 1968) is a Polish-American contemporary artist, director and photographer who has produced art since the mid 1990s which have explored themes of spectacle, cliché, and tropes of modern art.
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Many of his pieces and projects take well-known, overused, sometimes sentimental subjects and tropes and both embraces and subverts them. Untitled (Dance Floor) (1996) is one of his best known works which took a minimalist grid floor in the gallery and developed it into a disco dance floor activated with sound and lit with bright colors.
His works have been featured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art in Zurich, Museum of Mo