On the idea of the model

The 2012 Alternativa artistic project in Gdánsk emphasized the need for the return to material stability, approaching the field of the political from the perspective of a tactile and concrete point of view. Rather than absorbing the artistic positions, or the theories underpinning them, one could approach the exhibition as a process for the appraisal of a model. Alfredo Cramerotti’s response takes the form of delineating four types of models that correspond to four artistic positions that struck him as the most compelling: Partizan Publik and Arne Hendricks, Mateusz Herczka, Hiwa K and Lawrence Abu Hamdan.