Archiwa

Piosenka Buttes Monteaux razem z klipem i trzy obrazy olejne | Norman Leto

Wystawa Noramana Leto odbyła się w terminie 23 listopad – 31 grudzień. „Norman Leto jest zarówno malarzem, autorem niepokojących tekstów lokujących się na granicy poezji i eseju krytycznego, muzykiem, twórcą filmów wideo i komputerowych animacji. Zgodnie z tytułem wystawy w galerii pokazał 3 obrazy olejne i wygenerowany cyfrowo film.

I’m only here for a while | Maciej Szczurek

The exhibition of Maciej Szczurek „I’m only here for a moment” organized by Art Agenda Nova is the first individual exhibition of the artist’s works. Earlier, Szczurek’s work could be seen at several collective exhibitions in Warsaw and Krakow.

Jestem tu tylko na chwilę | Maciej Szczurek

Wystawa Macieja Szczurka „Jestem tu tylko na chwilę” zorganizowana przez krakowską galerię NOVA i Fundacje Wschód Sztuki w dniach 19 października 2007 – 21 listopada była pierwszą indywidualną wystawą prac artysty. Wcześniej prace Szczurka można było zobaczyć na kilku zbiorowych wystawach w Warszawie i Krakowie.

The Celebration of Erwin Koloczek | Jacek Malinowski

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] [siteorigin_widget class=”dc_jqaccordion_widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Opening Hours Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm Gallery Art Agenda Nova Batorego 2, Krakow ARTIST JACEK MALINOWSKI DURATION 2007-04-27 – 2007-05-16 Vernissage: April 27, 2007, at 18:00 (Friday) ul. Kochanowskiego 10 (entrance from the yard) ABOUT EXHIBITION The film by Jacek Malinowski presented in Galeria Novej fits in perfectly with the theme of the Krakow Decade of Photography – „Reality and the Document”. The artist takes it in a different way, surprising for the viewer who stops trusting his intuition every minute and allows himself to be drawn into a specific game. Using the form of a paradument, the artist balances on the border between fiction and truth, creation and the photographic perpetuation of reality. Jacek Malinowski known from the film Halfwoman presented in the Warsaw Zachęta is one of the graduates of Grzegorz Kowalski’s studio, the famous „Kowalnia” operating at the Sculpture Department of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Using various means of expression resulting from the possibilities of new media, photography and video art, he creates his own world, documents fictional history, creates an artificial reality accentuating its unrealistic dimension. The fruits of this work are the works referred to by the artist himself as hybrids constructed of seemingly ordinary elements put together, evoke their distinct dissonance, thus proving the relativity of reality reception, its actual artificiality. „The topic is not important: artificial war or crime, artificial tragedy (…) counterfeit east and sunset (…) I can create a monster and give it to people to be impressed or to reject it” Similar actions are aimed at referring, in a critical way, to our reality, emphasizing its similarity to the fictional world created for the needs of the film, undermining the condition of key terms such as fiction and reality. Exposing in an ironic way the ridiculousness of rituals and behaviors, the absurdity of the present, filled with stereotypical phrases that grow into the rank of myths with icons, symbols devoid of content. The premiere „Celebration of Erwin Koloczek” is another paradument in which the artist shows the world he created. In this case, however, the viewer from the beginning meets with a perceptible artificiality. The everyday life of the miners is contrasted with the unnatural pathos and affirmation emanating from their statements. The film’s heroes associated with heavy, dangerous and poorly paid work are inconsistent with the issues they issue. Theoretically, they fit into the world presented, but they bring to it a certain unnaturalness, make the laconic underground reality „out of the question”, full of familiar phrases. The exhibition will be held as part of the 5 Krakow Decades of Photography organized by the Museum of the History of Photography. Hanna Wróblewska www.mhf.krakow.pl Jacek Malinowski, Erwin Koloczek and celebrities … The celebration of Erwin Koloczek is another „paradocratic” film by Jacek Malinowski. A film in which the so-called ordinary people tell us about their ordinary or unusual life and the viewer actually to the end wonders where the boundary between fiction and truth runs, between the artistic creation and the almost photographic representation of reality. Sometimes you get caught in the most unlikely trap and believe that a woman with PDS (Pelvic Degeneration Syndrome) causing complete disappearance of the lower body really exists. The half-man in the story of his daily life is so convincingly ordinary. Doubts about the neurotic hero of the SSS are dispelled only by his final suicide in front of the camera, which ultimately shifts the boundaries from the document into fiction. An extraordinary couple: a sick and protector from Simulation to the very end, ie to ask an inquisitive artist with a camera from the apartment (and actually to throw it away), does not give us arguments to ultimately prejudge the matter. Especially that – as it turns out during the movie – the game, pretend, fiction is inscribed in the everyday life of this couple. The camera set in the apartment reveals that the girl only pretends to be ill, sunk in some kind of catatonia. The boy looks after her, not giving him a chance to change the situation, not wanting this change. So the viewer is accompanied by a sense of solving the riddle – does the girl pretend to be ill and this is life (how many such artistic films depicting strangers, others or sick have been created in the last dozen or so years!) Or a girl – actress – a sick person who plays the disease goes … etc The ambiguity of fiction and life is compounded by perfectly chosen and convincing people playing, or actually „appearing” in films. Sometimes it is „naturszczycy”, sometimes young, yet „un-ganged” actors. And both speak to the camera with unusual naturalness mixed up with some, also natural, its lack, lack of familiarity with the camera. That is exactly how an everyman should behave – an „ordinary person”. Permanent – almost always – is the place of the artist and the camera. The artist is actually invisible, sometimes he is just a voice asking questions, a hand flashing in the frame and moving objects. He is the one who holds the camera, which – it seems to be dispassionately – records people confronting her. It is a kind of a mirror for them, in which they look. In the latest film – The Celebration of Erwin Koloczek, however, something seems to be not so from the first minutes. People speaking to the camera – miners from the mine – give the impression of just as well chosen as the heroes of previous films. Original faces, dressed in working outfits, filmed together while working together. They say texts that match what they do. Sentences that describe their work, life, dreams. So why do not these sentences sound as natural as the half-woman or SSS boyfriend? Is it because Erwin Koloczek and his colleagues give them to the camera with too much bravado, in a slightly artificial way? Is the sense of the artist disappointing here? Or maybe

Celebracja Erwina Koloczka | Jacek Malinowski

Prezentowany w Galerii Novej film Jacka Malinowskiego świetnie wpisuje się w temat Krakowskiej Dekady Fotografii – „Rzeczywistość a dokument”. Artysta podejmuje go w sposób odmienny, zaskakujący dla widza, który z każdą minutą przestaje ufać swojej intuicji i pozwala się wciągnąć w swoistą grę. Używając formy paradokumentu twórca balansuje na granicy fikcji i prawdy, kreacji a fotograficznym utrwaleniem rzeczywistości.

Shame before the repetition | Bartosz Kokosiński

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] [siteorigin_widget class=”dc_jqaccordion_widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Opening Hours Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm Gallery Art Agenda Nova Batorego 2, Krakow ARTIST Bartosz Kokosiński DURATION 2007-02-23 – 2007-03-22 Vernissage February 23, 2007 (Friday) 18.00 The exhibition lasts until March 22, 2007 Nova Gallery ul. Józefa 22 (entrance from Nowa street) ABOUT EXHIBITION The first individual exhibition of works by Bartek Kokosiński is entitled „Shame before the repetition”. The substantive exhibition plan allows to divide it into three conventional conceptual blocks: a triple self-portrait; a series of black and white portraits supplemented with drawings; double paintings, dubbed „painterly painting” and solo works that constitute complementary accents. Such a selection of works, made by the artist, allows to fully read and understand the spectrum of actions taken so far. In his work, Kokosiński turns to painting form and technique as separate and essential elements of the whole work of art. Technical aspects become the dominant, and formal interpretation is the key to getting to know the character of the artist’s work. In Kokosiński’s actions one can read the pursuit of the concept of form by restoring its meaning, understood as the essence of painting. Starting from the typical, seemingly neutral academic performances (portrait, self-portrait), the creator constructs the work drawing on the technical achievements of other artists. The works created in this way, however, are not a pure compilation, the most important part of the creative process is innovation and experiment. The technical inspirations are particularly important in the cycle of three self-portraits. Seemingly identical, they arise from completely different reasons and fascinations. When painting, the artist relies on assumptions based on the theories or formal solutions of Leonardo da Vinci, Ada Reinhardt and Agata Bogacka. These sources are at the same time the basis of the idea for the image are marked in the titles of the works and in the theoretical description of creativity. Another formal play is revealed in black and white portraits. This series is the result of a bipolar project, where Kokosiński presents his family and friends, and the models portray the artist. The whole undertaking is subject to technical limitations imposed by the author. As a result of such a procedure, two types of performances are created. Unified in the colors, dimensions and manner of the presentation of the artist’s work, and the images of Kokosiński contrasted with them, which despite a single „theme” are completely different, as well as their creators. „(…) This is a deliberate action that affects people’s (human) mood fluctuations or physical disabilities. Visually more easily visible displacements in space. What criteria have the people portraying me, let it remain a puzzle that stimulates our imagination. The more so because the works that would seem to be similar to each other, are more distant than mine, showing so different personalities. ” The latest works by Kokosiński, dubbed „disease of painting”, are painting duets. The artist adapts diseases that torment representatives of the human species to the soil of the canvas. It shows the time before or after the disease, and completes the image during the illness. Visualization of psoriasis by the falling paint, or growth as a bubble of air in the layers that cover the image, are technical treatments that allow the author to explore the possibilities hidden in the craft of painting. „(…) motive in the works becomes invalid, its place is occupied by the structure (…) for me it is more action, fun (…)” Kokosiński does not close himself in rigid frames and thought patterns. Through his works and reflections on them, he opens up a wide range of topics of discussion from the present role of form and technique in art, through the state of painting itself, limitations, authorities in art, to the academic system of understanding creativity contrasted with contemporary consumerism and popularity. „Shame before the repetition” exhibited in the NOVA gallery, is in fact a courage to resume the issues of form and technique neglected in the present painting.

Wstyd przed powtórzeniem | Bartosz Kokosiński

Ekspozycja malarstwa Bartosza Kokosińskiego nosiła tytuł „wstyd przed powtórzeniem” a trwała od 23 lutego 2007 – 22.03.2007 roku. Była to pierwsza indywidualna wystawa prac Bartka Kokosińskiego. Kokosiński w swojej twórczości zwraca się ku formie oraz technice malarskiej, jako oddzielnym i istotnym elementom całości dzieła sztuki. Aspekty techniczne stają się dominantą, a interpretacja formalna kluczem do poznania charakteru twórczości artysty.

Searching for aura | Ewa Wróbel

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] [siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] [siteorigin_widget class=”dc_jqaccordion_widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Opening Hours Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm Gallery Art Agenda Nova Batorego 2, Krakow [smartslider3 slider=27] ARTIST EWA WRÓBEL DURATION 2007-01-12 – 2007-02-20 Vernissage January 12, 2007 (Friday) hours 18.00 ul. Józefa 22 (entrance from Nowa street) ABOUT EXHIBITION From the beginning, in her work, Ewa Wróbel refers to man, his nature, emotions and behaviors. It is him and the world created by him that becomes the subject and basis of the artist’s actions. It is occupied not so much by the realistic world of people as its philosophical and psychological aspects, various kinds of transformations, interactions … „My goals are to pay attention to certain phenomena in the world around us. […] In the sphere of my interests, as before, there are people and their condition in the modern world. ” The January exhibition at „Nova” is a review of the artist’s recent creative achievements, inspired by the thoughts of Walter Benjamin, a German philosopher and theoretician of culture, who was one of the first to analyze its mass aspect. Ewa Wróbel took up Benjamin’s thoughts regarding the meaning and influence of works of art, i.e. „Aura”. Claims on the subject of the artistic products considered classic of the genre affect the receivers, for mainly religious reasons, which is no longer the art of the present. Works have lost their „aura”, are massively reproduced, and thus cease to be elitist. According to Benjamin, this leads to the liberation of humanity. The artist tries to find the answer to the question: „What happens to this aura or does it cease to exist outside the original? Does it matter at all? ” He does so from the title of the exhibition: „In search of the aura …”, in practice, try to discover the rightness (or lack thereof) in the assumptions of Walter Benjamin. Hanging on the walls of the gallery, six oil paintings, contrasts them with various forms of reproduction (CDs, prints, slide projection, memory game). Will this trigger a reflection in the viewer? Is the larger aura beating from the originals or their processing? „… in this matter, however, I do not want to say: YES or NO. It provokes only to reflect on the issue of how the work of the work, reproduction techniques, the condition of art and the position of the artist … „- admits the artist. The original images shown on the exhibition, with their theme touch the problem of „aura”. As the artist explains, this word carries different meanings for her: „the wind gust is: the mood, the climate, the atmosphere prevailing around the person and the object. Aura, these are intangible colors and shapes that surround people and objects. ” For this reason, people who are close to the artist have been shown on the canvases. Their portraits, or rather the outlines of faces showing various emotional states, different „auras”. comment from the author „The exhibition will be about painting, dissemination, digitalization, searching for the” aura „that may be lost in reproduced works. The term was borrowed from Walter Benjamin, an essay: „A work of art in the era of its mechanical reproduction”. According to Benjamin, the works lose their „aura” and what is interesting, he thinks that it’s good, I’m not sure … In the postmodern era, people’s contact with art underwent a radical change. We can, while sitting in pajamas, visit the Louvre Museum and, on the computer monitor, see, using the zoom, the pores of Mona Lisa’s skin. Art is more accessible, reproduced in millions of copies. Is it good or bad? I do not know … I’m wondering about the aura that emanates from the original. Can we find her in reproduction? Is it important at all? What happened, is it happening with painting? Is he losing or is he gaining through mass distribution? How does this ancient medium live in the 21st century? ”

W poszukiwaniu aury | Ewa Wróbel

Od 12 stycznia do 20 lutego 2007 roku, w siedzibie galerii, dokonania malarskie prezentowała Ewa Wróbel. Wystawa nosiła tytuł „w poszukiwaniu aury”, prezentowała najnowsze (wówczas) prace artystki powstałe pod wpływem przemyśleń, związanych z lekturą tekstów Waltera Benjamina, niemieckiego filozofa i teoretyka kultury, który jako jeden z pierwszych zajmował się analizą jej masowego aspektu.

Człowiek bez właściwości | Tomasz Kowalski

Art Agenda Nova przedstawia prace młodego artysty, Tomasza Kowalskiego. Tytuł wystawy „Człowiek bez właściwości” jest powieleniem nazwy jednego z obrazów, przedstawiającego portret mężczyzny ułożony z owadów.

Sayonara Poppy | Edward Wolowsky

Sayonara Poppy by Edward Wołowski is the second after the For you and me exhibition of an American artist in Krakow. Art Agenda Nova will present its latest works.

Sayonara Poppy | Edward Wolowsky

Sayonara Poppy Edwarda Wołowskiego to druga po For you and me wystawa amerykańskiego artysty w Krakowie. Art Agenda Nova zaprezentuje jego najnowsze prace.

What moves in the wind | Paulina Lignar

At the first exhibition in Art Agenda Nova, Paulina Lignar, a graduate of the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, presents the latest paintings, which are artistic volatility in her work.

Co porusza się na wietrze | Paulina Lignar

Na pierwszej wystawie w Art Agenda Nova, Paulina Lignar, absolwentka krakowskiej ASP prezentuje najnowsze obrazy, będące w twórczości tej artystki pewną woltą artystyczną. Porzucając „hopperowski” realizm miast, wnętrz, portretów, Paulina zwraca się ku konceptualnej wymowie dzieła.

Partisan | Justyna Scheuring

Justyna Scheuring creates installations, objects, photographs, performance and poetry; he works with the subject, word and his own presence.

Partyzantka | Justyna Scheuring

Justyna Scheuring tworzy instalacje, obiekty, fotografie, performance oraz poezję; pracuje z przedmiotem, słowem i własną obecnością.