In 2012 Andrew Taggart and Chloe Lewis were artists-in residence at the Centre for Contemporary art housed in the Ujazdowski Castle. As they explored Warsaw they were inspired by finding thousands of postcards of the Ujazdowski Castle. This castle has been around for 800 years and has been a hunting house, a hospital, a fortress, a school, and now an art centre. It’s also been burned, bombed, abandoned, and restored. Taggart and Lewis began transforming these postcards as a way to work through the evolution of the castle through time. The postcards have been layered, taken apart, and reconfigured into collages, sculptures, and assemblages.
Visit the Centre for Contemporary Ujazdowski Castle to read more about their project and see more of the works. The book, The Reconstruction of Ujazdowski Castle, is a collection of the works made for the installation. It is a delightful collection of collages and assemblages that inspire thoughts about history, modernity, and where we fit between the two.
Five hundred copies of the book were made and each comes with one of the original postcard that sparked the project paper clipped into the front of the book. Find The Reconstruction Of Ujazdowski Castle in the ECUAD Artists Book Collection.
Andrew Taggart and Chloe Lewis are Canadian artists who seem to spend their time travelling between international artist-in residencies. They have been working together since 2006. Since 2010 they have run the Museum of Longing and Failure, an archived collection of everything to do with longing and failure.
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