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Seduced (by speeds and movements):
Recent Polish art
Curated by Adam Budak (Poland)
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Oscillating between “possessing the whole”
and “seeing the whole,” seduced by speeds and movements
in the network of complex trajectories, contemporary Polish artistic
practice combines the experience of Borgesian cartographer and De
Certeau’s walker. Strong realistic tendency resembles a utopic
attempt of a perfect cartographer for whom the only available and
considered scale is the 1:1 relation. This, in many cases, results
in Krzysztof Zielinski’s series of photographs, Hometown. Pastiche-like
paintings by Pawel Ksiazek collect campy gadgets of alternative imaginative
worlds of science-fiction flavor constructing an intriguing structure
of seemingly utopic and nostalgic stories. Rafal Bujnowski uses parody
and irony in order to revitalize painting’s subject matter as
well as the profession of the painter himself. Malgorzata Jablonska
in her graphics intertwines the fictive worlds of virtual reality
with the most common and ordinary surroundings. Such a world is also
peopled by the toy-like heroes of Krzysztof Ostrowski’s graphics,
cartoons, illustrations, and video clips. Marta Deskur’s Fanshon
is a moving study of otherness caught in a too narrow passageway between
the intimate and the public. The live paintings and video projection
murals of Dominik Lejman explore the surface tensions and façade
effects conditioned perspective and optical illusion. The interest
in redistribution of power and the significance of ideology is shared
by the Polish/Ukrainian team, Piotr Wyrzykowski/Illia Chichkan. Their
video and photo work Defenders consists of images of military officers
posing in gestures of staged repose, juxtaposed with advertisments
from fashion magazines. The Azorro Group video films and actions demystify
the illusion of well-being and confidence, pointing out the ridiculousness
of art understood as an institutionalized system. Bogna Burska’s
art is a poetic study of traces and ephemeral gestures, filled up
with the sudden and unexpected appearance of unknown existence.
Artists:
Azorro
Group
Rafal Bujnowski
Bogna Burska
Marta Deskur
Malgorzata Jablonska
Pawel Ksiazek
Dominik Lejman
Krzysztof Ostrowski
Piotr Wyrzykowski
Zbigniew Zielinski
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