Article: Paulina Olowska at Metro Pictures.(Nowa Scena)

In her first New York solo show--"Nowa Scena" (new scene)--Warsaw-based artist Paulina Olowska presented billboard-scale collages steeped in nostalgia but crackling with energy in the here and now. Photographic enlargements and texts (some neatly cut out from their sources, others raggedly torn) intermingle with drawings, abstract passages and/or painterly flourishes to resemble the pages of crude scrapbooks and fan magazines. One category of images consists of posters, record covers and photographs of boy bands associated with Poland's 1980s punk-rock scene. Another, with bold young women of the same era wearing short skirts and gazing jauntily, rebelliously or ...

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