@. Gwiazdista
artrist. Maurycy Gomulicki
finished. 2009
Lightgush, Światłotrysk, created by Maurycy Gomulicki is an exuberant 17 m (56ft) tall neon set in a park between a neighborhood of communist era apartment blocks and a main artery into the city. Pink bubbles light up irregularly as if they were fizzing in a giant glass of soda. The sculpture is an excellent example of the artist’s admitted obsession with communist era aesthetics. While communism evokes everything gray and drab, this sculpture is happy and light. Gomulicki retells the story of the Polish People’s Republic. Lightgush questions our memory of what was considered a harsh regime, whose symbol, the Palace of Culture, is to this day reviled. The artist dares to ask the city if those could have been carefree, good times, or, even worse, if today’s times so gray that they’ve tinged the past pink?
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