No room for clichés when it comes to art. In this field also an “old fashioned” manual activity can turn into a contemporary expressive and stimulating form of art. Such is the case with skilfully woven crochet work of Olek. After leaving her native Poland in favour of New York, Agata Oleksiak (her real name) took her first steps in the world of street art becoming noted for some works of yarn bombing. Street furniture, bicycles and blind walls of the Big Apple covered with colourful jumpers were in fact the first signs of her passage.
The most famous is a repeat of the dressing of the Charging Bull of Wall Street; the sculpture symbol of the aggressive capitalist economy was transformed, for a few hours, into a harmless purple giant puppet. Olek did not stop on the journey, but for some time has begun the conquest of museum spaces and galleries. Her joyful covers are the centrepiece of installations and performances that, in a language which is gracefully over the top, reinvents tradition and brings to life ancient legends.
WHERE: 529 West 20th Street, 9E, New York, NY 10011