‘Can't see anything’ — book summary of exhibition cycles
year of publication: 2011
size: 138,6 × 200 mm
volume: 192 pages
edition: 500 pieces
binding: softcover
reproductions in colour
languages: Polish/English
graphic design and typesetting: Katarzyna Goczoł, Magdalena Machno
publisher: BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice
ISBN 978-83-88254-66-6
Contents:
Marta Lisok Introduction
Days go by in the rush like wild horses from a hill
Maciej Nawrot
Marta Lisok Days go by in a rush like wild horses from a hill
Maciej Nawrot Pictures by painter/security guard
Some pictures do not want to be painted
Bartosz Kokosiński
Marta Lisok Some pictures do not want to be painted
Ewa Łączyńska I do not know where to find the border of this painting
Fear of Darkness
Karolina Żyniewicz
Marta Lisok Fear of Darkness
Agata Stronciwilk Dead cat's skull
Low visibility
Małgorzata Szymankiewicz
Marta Lisok Low visibility
Bartłomiej Buczek A Test
Playing with the form Marcin Krasny interviews with Małgorzata Szymankiewicz
Anna Bielak A seducer on the edge. On not seeing in the cinema
Biennial of Art for Children
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Małgorzata Szymankiewicz — ‘Low visibility’ in ‘small space’ En eye should be quick and good. There is no time for raising eyebrows, for closing eyelids – it might be too late. In past times one needed time for a...
Karolina Żyniewicz — ‘Fear of Darkness’ — within the framework of Biennial of Art for Children When Karolina Żyniewicz organises space, she doesn't clearly mark the focal point. The objects are laid out and hung in accordance with her own geometric...
Bartosz Kokosiński — ‘Some pictures do not want to be painted’ Bartosz Kokosiński's most recent paintings look as if something has just wriggled under their surface, stretching the canvas and disfiguring the frames with...
Maciej Nawrot — ‘Days go by in a rush like wild horses from a hill’ I decided to paint it, says Maciek. We can feel that something can happen within certain selected frames, but we are still not sure whether we are in the right...
Artists who have been invited to take part in a cycle organised in 2011 in BWA Contemporary Art Gallery’s Small Space examine situations in which they cannot see anything.
Maciej Nawrot examines his surroundings — nothing significant seems to happen there. Bartosz Kokosiński struggles with pictures which do not want to be painted, flexing their frames to the point of exploding. Karolina Żyniewicz makes her research into the inside of a body, into the areas impenetrable by light. Małgorzata Szymankiewicz holds back helplessly as soon as she gets to the surface of the examined objects. There are four individual exhibitions and four artists dealing with absence, disappearance and incapability, each in their own unique manner. What they find in the end is nothingness, just like Orpheus, when he disobeys the rules of Hades and turns to look back. He looks forward to seeing his beloved, whom he tries to bring back into the world of the living, and he is harshly punished for attempting to penetrate with his eyes something that should have remained enveloped in darkness.
