video wall on Jakominiplatz

thanks to ESC my video work is being shown in video wall on Jakominiplatz/Graz

ESC

http://esc.mur.at/ 

photo documentation soon 

Shoes

29.05.2009 Official opening of the SONS Muzeum (Shoes or no shoes?).

They ask me to sent them the pair of shoes I use in studio. I found it very wired but eventually I did decide to do that as I need the new work shoes anyway.

I miss them in my studio.

I really like Ballen Roger's shoe. It's seriousy wired. I just wonder why do he and Gerard Richter decided to show only one of them ?

Bill Viola reebok shoes.

Ilya Kabakov has the same pair like mine, I did bring them from Austria few years ago. The last one - Owned by Martin Kippenberger

Shoes or no Shoes? Museum Vandevoordeweg 2 9770 Kruishoutem Belgium

POKÓJ/ MOVING THROUGH THE WALLS

In Schlisselburg’s prison – a place important not only for polish history – it was thought about different ways of diffusion of the matter. In the borders of walls and without the radio discovery communication there was possible thanks to the sensitive hearing and in some prison rooms the fragility of the walls which allows to pull the straw or line through the wall. Although the primary banal aim which was based on the mathematics imagination and dream, and allows for a play with a fourth dimension.

The room where you are is 17 sq meters and in the beginning it was supposed to be only an artist studio. After some time it starts to have a second role / function – a flat. There is nothing strange in it, because from many years some of the artist where showing theirs works in the bed room, other – in the special created for that spaces. This is not so much important. Almost everyone which enter the flat was asking about second room, “but where is a bed room?”.

To go ahead to the feeling of a space neglect, artist tried to use a trick based on the opposition - interior / exterior. The time understood as the fourth dimension allowed for the perfect smooth move to the invisible, but expected place. Beside that view of the flat – studio didn’t changed. In this a bit blur ‘perspective’, a room might be an interior of the picture, which shows the 3-dimensional ‘crystals’ brought from artist’s canvas and a place on the wall signing its line. The room is also an area of a life of other similar rooms. A rectangle painted with ‘magic pencil’ opens door to the parallel world of imagination. It’s better to not lay along anything.

text Krzysztof Gutfrański

cooperation Adam Jastrzebski

w ramach Nocy Muzeów 2009

mieszkanie prywatne,

16.05 godz 9.00 - 24.00

ul Sw Franciszka

Warszawa

KRYSZTAŁ/CRYSTAL

Parcels for the Promised Land

This cristal takes a part in " Parcels for the Promised Land " 

KUNSTBÜROBERLIN
Uhlandstr. 162
10719 Berlin
www.kunstbueroberlin.de

16.05 - 12.06

The crystal – abstraction, which could be shown in different ways: turn upside down and from the left to the right like an uncut diamond. The crystal has a lot of sides and edges and sometimes down could  be up. There is an infinite number of options. Once I saw a small picture of Andrzej Wroblewski (from 1948/9) titled “A man – abstraction”, that work inspired me to make a crystal series. Crystals are also a tangible symbol of a poetic justice – usually, when the right fights the wrong, in cartoons, always some team gets a mysterious crystal, which helps the right to win, finally.  

Crystal –a substitute of the right.

Finally crystals, my crystals consist of triangles, because when I was minimizing a complicated structure of those real crystals I imagined a crystal in that particular way: as an infinite number of small triangles. Triangle could be interpreted in different ways: a Great Yantra in Hinduism, two – the Star of Dawid, in a bodily level a triangle with the top downward is a symbol of a primeval female. She produced herself a semen ,which has become a male symbol, which is pictured as a triangle with a top upward.  Triangle is also a shape of an arrow so it is a symbol of a direction, a determination, a resoluteness, a keenness, but also a stability (has used in buildings since shelters an pyramids to nowadays).

Moge byc kim chce. Czuje sie w obowiazku byc kim chce./I can be who I want to be. I feel it is my duty, responsibility to be who I want to be.

Virginia Woolf once wrote that the artist shouldn’t be on any one side of the gender divide: to create one should be either female-male or male-female, rather than focusing on your own sex. While those words once seemed to me prophetic, nowadays looking with some perspective, they are no longer. I know I am a woman, a weak woman; I know I am a painter, which has always seemed to me shameful and like a bad omen (a painter = a freak). I am glad about at the very thought of realizing it, as this makes me strong. If only I wanted I could carry mountains.

Project consists of 3 parts:

Part 1

Szapocznikow and Kozyra suffered from cancer, Felix Gonzalez – Torres AIDS, Wyspianski, Stryjenska, Lenin, Boudelaire were syphilitics; Van Gogh was schizophrenic. I suffer from Tetania. I choise 49 important people who have suffered from some illness.

The happy medium is to give a little bit of divinity to align myself with the greats. Then one needn’t use words, because if I place myself in suitable context it automaticaly makes me a member of this world.

Stryjenska inspired me, saying that when found out she was ill with syphilis - that since Wyspianski had suffered from it, and other Greats, that she came to a conclusion that she is a great also.

Part 2

pictures – the portraits of peacocks

you can interpret it in various/ different ways

my idea is a modest humble animal, who when they unfold their wings have no equal as a royal animal. Artists used to be perceived on the one hand as people behind society, and on the other hand always close to those of importance at court. 

People of culture, creators, regardless of their descent, are treated equal to aristocracy and authority. You can interpret that a peacock is an animal proud by nature because it knows its worth. The peacock is alike to an artist, a creator, a man who looks at life in an unusual way.

A perfect animal.

At the same time, when I am painting peacocks I can focus on colors, I feel like a flower painter more than Georgia O’Keefe, more decorative than Natalia Gonczarova.

Part 3

I drew my inspiration from a title of Ryszard Grzyb’s exhibition: " Dying because I do not die" and also the explanation of his project. Thoughts of death make me terrified: nevertheless I know that artists are immortal, because there is always something left behind them. So in the third part I am giving them life and I am taking their death away.  A cycle of pictures "Go Michael Go" whose leading subject is a plane held by heroes of pictures which were painted by Michael Majerus, who tragically died in an air crash.

„An artist is perceived as a shaman in social optics, a demiurge, a colorful bird, a freak, someone who is permanently ill, is ruined by the temperature of an  irremovable trouble. This is, of course, socially made a fantasy. And this widespread fantasy protects the society against a real meeting with the art. But 

At the same time it protects the artist against the real responsibility for their own works“. A. Zmijewski – Trembling bodies.

My work is a polemic with Zmijewski’s words. I expose a painting phenomenon. I show in my work proceses which are taking part inside my head, quick decisions and a divine power which there is in a mind. How with the magic pencil I change the course of events. A will to be someone special – creating something memorable -  displaces a rational thinking. I am giving myself to this illusion in my works.

Galeria Wizytujaca, 20.03 - 11.04 Warszawa