List of exhibitions 2016-2013

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Exhibition accompanying the first scientific-artistic conference "Geometry in discourse - discourse in geometry"  

Participants:  Monika Aleksandrowicz (PL), Natalia Andrzejewska (PL), Jakub Balicki (PL), Andrzej Banachowicz (PL), Dominique Chapuis (F/D), Waltraut Cooper (A), Maria Cuevas (E), Monika Czarska (PL), Mateusz Dąbrowski (PL), Georgi Dimitrov (BG), Małgorzata Dobrzyniecka-Kojder (PL), Jean-François Dubreuil (F), Rita Ernst (CH), Julián Gil (E), Małgorzata Gorgolewska (PL), Dorota Grynczel (PL), István Haász (H), Gerhard Hotter (D), Karolina Jaklewicz (PL), Tomasz Jędrzejko (PL), Vesna Kovacic (D), Jo Kuhn (D), Marlena Lenart (PL), Josef Linschinger (A), Jakub Matys (PL), Bartłomiej Michalski (PL), Marcin Mikołajczyk (PL), Michał Misiak (PL), Grzegorz Mroczkowski (PL), Boris Müller (D), Beta Oberc-Niemczyk (PL), Aleksander Olszewski (PL), Jürgen Paas (D), Przemysław Paliwoda (PL), Jan Pamuła (PL), Adam Panasiewicz (PL), Alicja Panasiewicz (PL), Sławomir Plewko (PL), Otto Reitsperger (D), Zbigniew Romańczuk (PL), Reinhard Roy (D), Adam Skóra (PL), Magdalena Snarska (PL), Mark Starel (PL), Jolanta Studzińska (PL), Przemysław Suliga (PL), Grzegorz Sztabinski (PL), Martin Vosswinkel (D), Agnieszka Wasiak (PL), Wojciech Wierzbicki (PL), Joanna Zak (PL), Tomasz  Zawadzki (PL), Olga Ząbroń (PL)

Place: XS Gallery, Institute of Fine Arts, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland  

Duration: September 10 - October 10, 2016

Curator: Mark Starel      

Participants:  Julian Gil (E), Eugenia Gortchakova (D), Michał Misiak (PL), Antonio Rollo  (I), Reinhard Roy (D), Norbert Thomas (D), Jean-Pierre Viot (F), Martin Vosswinkel (D)

Place: XS Gallery, Institute of Fine Arts, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland  

Duration: April 28 - May 24, 2015

Curator: Mark Starel   

Participants:  Waldemar Bachmeier (D), Nikola Dimitrov (D), Rita Ernst (CH), Gerhard Hotter (D), Josef Linschinger (A), Wiesław Łuczaj (PL), Jean-Pierre Viot (F), Joanna Zak (PL)

Place:  Działań Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 

Duration: December 18, 2014 - January 30, 2015

Curator: Mark Starel  

The international exhibition RELATIONAL GEOMETRY is a presentation of works by 9 artists from 5 European countries: Austria, France, Germany, Poland and Switzerland. The presented creative attitudes are contained in two opposite trends of geometric art, namely Concrete Art and Discursive Geometry, with the main emphasis being placed on discourses and relations.

In this context, the exhibition partly refers to the relational aesthetics of the French theorist and curator Nicholas Bourriaud, who in the 1990s used this term to describe artistic trends and practices in visual arts, inspired or based on interpersonal relations and their social context. Bourriaud saw artists as mediators and pointed out that the purpose of art is to exchange information between the artist and the viewer.

Such assumptions are implemented by Discursive Geometry, depicting various aspects of reality, such as social behavior of people, their participation in culture and art, our everyday life, as well as other social relations (e.g. references to the world of mass media), scientific relations (such as references art itself to mathematical systems or posthumanist reflections related to genes or artificial life), or relations to the humanities (such as inspiration with music, architecture, cultural texts or iconography).

Waldemar Bachmeier (Germany) presents images from a series inspired by winning Lotto. Bachmeier has created an original palette of 49 colors. Each of them was assigned numerical values ​​from 1 to 49. In the pictures, the numbers drawn in Lotto are represented by colored stripes, arranged from top to bottom.

Nikola Dimitrov (Germany), pianist and painter, who in his visual art deals with the issue of tension between music and painting, creates rhythmic deep black structures with densities typical of op-art. He tries to convey the mood of the music with his painting structures and colors. He also carries out his works during the performances of musicians cooperating with him, simultaneously creating an image during the concert.

Rita Ernst (Switzerland) creates a series of works inspired by architecture, both sacred and secular (eg Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin). The process of transforming an architectural plan into a picture is carried out primarily by examining floor plans and building geometry, and then reducing the elements, leading to formal abstraction. It does not exactly reflect the plans of specific buildings, but rather presents a structural order, symbolizing the space of the building. The exhibition presents works from the new series "Konstruktive weite" realized in 2013 and presented at the premiere exhibition at the Museum Chasa Jaura in Switzerland.

Gerhard Hotter (Germany) presents paintings from a series inspired by the Langford mathematical system. The analysis of this system leads the artist to visual structures in which he transforms the zero-one notation of the system, creating a new, own visual language. Hotter believes that this transformed form of communication contains an image of the universe. The infinite and non-repetitive sequences of the Langford system allow the artist to have various configuration options, which may also include: musical pieces, landscapes, poems, or parts of them ...

Josef Linschinger (Austria) presents a picture from the series "Bild aus Text", in which he combines two information systems: semantic and visual. Geometry is the basis for the characters of the alphabet. Linschinger turns the alphabet into a visual-conceptual statement that, in the form of dualism, should lead to unity and harmony. His works deal with the culturally important issue of the original means of transmitting thoughts. Through their form, they often become an artistic transliteration and create a contemporary context for historical non-alphabetic writings.

Wiesław Łuczaj (PL), curator of the exhibition and author of this text, presents statistical images from the series "Statistical Pole" inspired by statistical messages on the social behavior of Poles, especially related to the level of satisfaction and happiness in life. The starting point for this work is the assumption that contemporary reality is a statistical reality. Thus, the appropriate art for it is statistical art, or more broadly, Discursive Geometry.

Jean-Pierre Viot (France) presents works from the minimal art tradition in which working methods relate to three basic elements of concrete art: lines, surfaces and colors. The main theme of his art is space: plans, quantities, minimal colors, overlaps, intersecting elements. Compositions emphasizing the interpenetration of forms receive a specific movement. The void around the figures is "space". Art critics emphasize the poetic element of this work.

Joanna Zak (PL) presents paintings from the series "Joa's Activity", which refer to the author's everyday "bustle" around her own apartment. The paintings consist of 9 square modules, 8 of which represent the rooms of the apartment: living room, balcony, study, hall, child's room, bathroom, toilet and kitchen, and one module represents the outside world. The modularity of the works allows her to freely compose subsequent images. By swapping one or more modules with other images, a new image is created. The conversion always applies to the same room, e.g. a kitchen from one painting is replaced by a kitchen from another painting. The works show the author's activity on a specific date and time. Each time of the day is represented by a different color: red, green, blue and black. The lines in the pictures record the movement. A point means staying in a specific room.

By combining the presented creative positions, the exhibition obtains a common denominator in the form of the discursive nature of the works and the relational context of their creation. The deliberately assumed multidirectional nature of the exhibition, based on three equal areas GEOMETRY-DISCOURSE-RELATION, indicates the vitality of art expressed in the language of geometry, its evolution, exceeding program limits and a contemporary game with the theoretical context in which works of art function.

prof. Wiesław Łuczaj (aka Mark Starel)

exhibition curator

Participants:    

Bachmeier Waldemar (D), Berndt Wolfgang (D), Bruch Hellmut (A), Chapuis Dominique (F/D), Ebener Wolf (D), Ernst Rita (CH), Frömel Gerhard (A), Gieraga Andrzej (PL), Grynczel Dorota (PL), Haász István (H), Heerz Fritz (D), Höcky Herbert (D), Hornef Ingrid (D), Hotter Gerhard (D), Kremer Karl Peter (D), Kuhn Jo (D), Linschinger Josef (A), Łuczaj Wiesław aka Mark Starel (PL), Misiak Michał (PL), Mroczkowski Grzegorz (PL), Olszewski Aleksander (PL), Pamuła Jan (PL), Röder Jochen (D), Rollo Antonio (I), Roy Reinhard (D), Suliga Przemysław (PL), Viegener Gertrud (D), Viot Jean-Pierre (F), Vitt Horst Peter (D), Zak Joanna (PL) 

Place: European Art Gallery, Millenium Auction House in Rzeszów, Poland

Organizer: Develop Investment (Millenium Hall), Rzeszów

European Art Gallery, Millenium Auction House

Co-organizers: National Museum in Kielce, Poland

Institute of Fine Arts, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland

Duration: September 12 - October 30, 2013

Curator: prof. Wiesław Łuczaj (aka Mark Starel) 

The international exhibition CONCRETE / DISCOURSE is a presentation of works by 34 artists from 7 European countries: Austria, France, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Hungary and Italy. The presented creative attitudes are contained in two opposing currents of geometric art, namely Concrete Art and Discursive Geometry. Concrete Art should be free from any symbolic relationship with reality, because lines and colors are concrete things in themselves. Discursive Geometry illustrates various relationships with reality, such as social behavior of people, their participation in culture and art, our everyday life, etc. This purposefully assumed polarity of the exhibition shows the vitality of both trends, their evolution, exceeding the program limitations and contemporary play with the theoretical context in which works of art function.

You can see here works that refer directly to concrete art (Wolf Ebener, Jo Kuhn, Andrzej Gieraga), play an illusory game with our perception (Gerhard Frömel, Reinhard Roy, Michał Misiak), materialize color or become light (Hellmut Bruch, Gertrud Viegener , Dorota Grynczel). You can see works that suggest some connections with reality, for example social (Joanna Zak), landscape (Grzegorz Mroczkowski, Jochen Röder), architectural (Rita Ernst, István Haász); or relationships with virtual reality or artificial life (Berndt Wolfgang, Przemysław Suliga). You can see works based on a mathematical system or other mathematical factor (Gerhard Hotter, Jan Pamuła, Jean-Pierre Viot, Aleksander Olszewski). You can also see those that are meditative (Dominique Chapuis), forcing you to discover content (Josef Linschinger, Waldemar Bachmeier) or to interact (Antonio Rollo). All works are characterized by the order of geometric forms and the harmony of their structure, achieved by various means of expression.

By combining various creative positions, the exhibition becomes a presentation of the spirit of modernity and - at the same time - a game with the tradition of modernity. It includes works related to order, rationality and unambiguity typical of the avant-garde. One can find chance and indeterminacy, random numbers and statistical distributions of elements of the work from the neo-avant-garde tradition. There are also numerous examples of ambiguity, eternal imperfection of meanings (Z. Bauman) and the atmosphere of theory (A. Danto) typical of postmodernism.

The presented outline of the exhibition, although mostly based on the program and intentions of the authors, should be treated as one of many possible. Theoretical contexts and our (viewers') individual experience can give this art new meanings and create unexpected references to reality.

prof. Wiesław Łuczaj aka Mark Starel

exhibition curator

Translation: Google

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