Where did the name Raster come from? Raster is a printing term, it’s those dots that make up an image in offset printing. What Roy Lichtenstein painted – that’s what raster is. It was the perfect title for the magazine – related to printing, which we were always kind of obsessed with. We also quickly found a metaphorical and poetic explanation for the name: we were interested in actively changing the image of art in Poland. However, we didn’t mean a revolutionary upheaval, but working on the very small exceptions of reality, working on the points, on these points of the raster, according to the principle that if we change the small points – which we are capable of – the image of the whole will actually change as well. At the second meeting of the Art in Practice series, Łukasz Gorczyca explained what “working on the raster points” of the Polish art world looks like in practice. 

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