List of exhibitions 2018-2017

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Participants:    

Anna-Maria BOGNER (A), Ove CARLSON (S), Dominique CHAPUIS (F/D), Marcin CHOMICKI (PL), Maria CUEVAS (E), Maks DANNECKER (D), Gilles DROUIN (F), Marek DZIENKIEWICZ (PL), John FRANCIS (CAN/F), Małgorzata GORGOLEWSKA (PL), István HAÁSZ (H), Konrad HAJDAMOWICZ (PL), Carmen HIDALGO de CISNEROS WILCKENS (E), Gerard van der HORST (NL), Aleksandra JADCZUK (PL), Jacek JAGIELSKI (PL), Paula JASZCZYK (PL), Wiktor JĘDRZEJEC (PL), Tomasz JĘDRZEJKO (PL), Arkadiusz KARAPUDA (PL), Anneke KLEIN KRANENBARG (NL), Anna KLONOWSKA (PL), Erdem KUCUK-KOROGLU (TR), Jo KUHN (D), Sebastian KULARSKI (PL), Christine LÖW (D), Pia LØYE (DK), Ryszard ŁUGOWSKI (PL), Małgorzata ŁUSZCZAK (PL), Susanne Kathlen MADER (D/N), Sławomir MARZEC (PL), Jakub MATYS (PL), Grzegorz MROCZKOWSKI (PL), Paweł NOWAK (PL), Fredo OJDA (PL), Mónica OLIVA (E), Aleksander OLSZEWSKI (PL), Błażej OSTOJA LNISKI (PL), László OTTÓ (H), Stefan PARUCH (PL), Sławomir PLEWKO (PL), Sabine RICHTER (D), Zbigniew ROMAŃCZUK (PL), Reinhard ROY (D), Koldo SEBASTIÁN (E), Katarzyna SADRAK (PL), Jerzy SOJKA (PL), Billy SOTO (EC), Jacek STASZEWSKI (PL), Michael T. STEPHENS (USA), Bogumiła STROJNA (F), Jolanta STUDZIŃSKA (PL), Przemysław SULIGA (PL), Agnieszka WASIAK (PL), Piotr WELK (PL), Andrzej WĘCŁAWSKI (PL), András WOLSKY (H), Tomasz ZAWADZKI (PL) 

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

Duration: September 12-28, 2018

Curator: Mark Starel  

Participants:    

Štefan BALÁZS (SK), Ove CARLSON (S), Dominique CHAPUIS (F/D), Maria CUEVAS (E), Jean-François DUBREUIL (F), Rita ERNST (CH), John FRANCIS (CAN), Dariusz GAJEWSKI (PL), Julián GIL (E), István HAÁSZ (HU), Konrad HAJDAMOWICZ (PL), Gerard van der HORST (NL), Gerhard HOTTER (D), Victor HULIK (SK), Zbyněk JANÁČEK (CZ), Tomasz JĘDRZEJKO (PL), Arkadiusz KARAPUDA (PL), Jo KUHN (D), Josef LINSCHINGER (A), Christine LÖW (D), Aleksandra ŁATECKA (PL), Ryszard ŁUGOWSKI (PL), Małgorzata ŁUSZCZAK (PL), Susanne Kathlen MADER (D/N), Jakub MATYS (PL), Michał MISIAK (PL), Manfred MOHR (USA),  Grzegorz MROCZKOWSKI (PL), David MRUGALA (D/KOR), Boris MÜLLER (D), Tadeusz MYSŁOWSKI (USA), Aleksander OLSZEWSKI (PL), Błażej OSTOJA LNISKI (PL), László OTTÓ (HU), Jan PAMUŁA (PL), Alicja PANASIEWICZ / Adam PANASIEWICZ (PL), Sławomir PLEWKO (PL), Anto RABZAS (E), Jaume ROCAMORA (E), Zbigniew ROMAŃCZUK (PL), Reinhard ROY (D), Magdalena SNARSKA (PL), Mark STAREL (PL), Jacek STASZEWSKI (PL), Jolanta STUDZIŃSKA (PL), Przemysław SULIGA (PL), Arkadiusz SYLWESTROWICZ (PL), Grzegorz SZTABIŃSKI (PL), Norbert THOMAS (D), Rafał URBAŃSKI (PL), Jorge VARAS (E), Jean-Pierre VIOT (F), Martin VOSSWINKEL (D), Agnieszka WASIAK (PL), Joa ZAK (PL), Tomasz ZAWADZKI (PL), Olga ZĄBROŃ (PL), Wojciech ZUBALA (PL) 

Place: Art Center EL Gallery, Elbląg, Poland

Duration: June 28 - August 31, 2018

Curators: Mark Starel, Karina Dzieweczyńska 

The international exhibition entitled CONCRETE / DISCOURSE / CODE is another part of a recurring project carried out by Prof. Wiesław Łuczaj from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, combining various trends in contemporary geometric art. These trends are hidden in the trinomial title: concrete art (CONCRETE), Discursive Geometry (DISCOURSE) and generative art (CODE).

The exhibition features works by 60 artists from the USA, Canada, South Korea, as well as 12 European countries: Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland and Sweden. 

Their works – originating from the realm of ​​concrete art – touch upon such issues as the work’s matter, color, construction and structure, optical impact of elements, mathematical systems and their corresponding grid, along with other problems relating to form, because this art should be free from any connection with reality (except for the universe or transcendental reality). 

As for the works representing the field of Discursive Geometry, they draw inspiration from everyday reality, from its various aspects: daily life, newspapers, magazines, architecture, landscape, cultural texts, artificial life simulators, statistical reports describing social behavior, mapping, databases and many other sources. 

Finally, works from the realm of generative art addresses the subject of co-creation of works by computers. They are results of randomness, algorithms and computer codes. The works presented at the exhibition are real-time animations generated and visualized by a computer, which means that the projected images are never repeated.

The intentional multidirectional character of the exhibition indicates the vitality of art expressed in the language of geometry, its evolution, its extension beyond programme-related limitations, and the contemporary play with the theoretical context, regardless of where the artists live and create.

Mark Starel

Participants:    

Štefan BALÁZS (SK), Małgorzata BIELECKA (PL), Hellmut BRUCH (AT), Ove CARLSON (SE), Dominique CHAPUIS (FR/DE), Mateusz DĄBROWSKI (PL), Dariusz GAJEWSKI (PL), Aleksandra GIERAGA (PL), Julián GIL (ES), István HAÁSZ (HU), Victor HULIK (SK), Zbyněk JANÁČEK (CZ), Wiktor JĘDRZEJEC (PL), Arkadiusz KARAPUDA (PL), Rafał KOCHAŃSKI (PL), Jo KUHN (DE), Christine LÖW (DE), Susanne Kathlen MADER (NO), Tomasz MILANOWSKI (PL), Jan MIODUSZEWSKI (PL), Michał MISIAK (PL), Adam MYJAK (PL), Paweł NOWAK (PL), Aleksander OLSZEWSKI (PL), Błażej OSTOJA LNISKI (PL), László OTTÓ (HU), Alicja PANASIEWICZ / Adam PANASIEWICZ (PL), Alina PICAZIO (PL), Sławomir PLEWKO (PL), Anto RABZAS (ES), Jaume ROCAMORA (ES), Reinhard ROY (DE), Zbigniew SIKORA (PL), Magdalena SNARSKA (PL), Jacek STASZEWSKI (PL), Sabina TWARDOWSKA (PL), Gerard van der HORST (NL), Jorge VARAS (ES), Jean-Pierre VIOT (FR), Martin VOSSWINKEL (DE), Agnieszka WASIAK (PL), ZAWA & WORPUS (PL), Tomasz ZAWADZKI (PL), Olga ZĄBROŃ (PL), Wojciech ZUBALA (PL)

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

Duration: September 25 - October 18, 2017 

Curator: Mark Starel  

Participants:    

Andrzej Banachowicz (PL), Dominique Chapuis (F/D), Waltraut Cooper (A), Maria Cuevas (E), Mateusz Dąbrowski (PL), Georgi Dimitrov (BG), Małgorzata Dobrzyniecka-Kojder (PL), Jean-François Dubreuil (F), Rita Ernst (CH), Julian Gil (E), Małgorzata Gorgolewska (PL), Dorota Grynczel (PL), Istvan Haasz (H), Gerhard Hotter (D), Karolina Jaklewicz (PL), Tomasz Jędrzejko (PL), Jo Kuhn (D), Josef Linschinger (A), Jakub Matys (PL), Bartłomiej Michalski (PL), Michał Misiak (PL), Grzegorz Mroczkowski (PL), Boris Müller (D) Aleksander Olszewski (PL), Laszlo Otto (H), Przemysław Paliwoda (PL), Jan Pamuła (PL), Adam Panasiewicz (PL), Alicja Panasiewicz (PL), Sławomir Plewko (PL), Antonio Rollo (I) Zbigniew Romańczuk (PL), Reinhard Roy (D) Magdalena Snarska (PL), Mark Starel (PL), Jolanta Studzińska (PL), Przemysław Suliga (PL) Grzegorz Sztabiński (PL), Norbert Thomas (D), Martin Vosswinkel (D), Agnieszka Wasiak (PL) Joanna Zak (PL), Tomasz Zawadzki (PL), Olga Ząbroń (PL)

Place: University Gallery, Faculty of Art in Cieszyn, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Duration: March 29 - April 19, 2017

Curator: Mark Starel  

The 4th International GRID Exhibition is a presentation of works by 45 artists from 9 European countries: Austria, Bulgaria, France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Hungary and Italy. It is the next installment of a cyclical project in which the presented work is contained in two currents of geometric art - Concrete Art and Discursive Geometry. Previous editions took place at the XS Gallery of the Institute of Fine Arts, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce (2014, 2015, 2016). In the last two years, the exhibitions were accompanied by the International Scientific and Artistic Conferences "Geometry in discourse - discourse in geometry", where the issue of the grid was considered in the context of visual arts, design arts and digital media.

Such a clash of two different streams of art requires a common denominator. Concrete Art should be free from any symbolic relations with reality, because lines and colors are concrete things in themselves. On the other hand, Discursive Geometry illustrates various relationships with reality, such as social behavior of people, their participation in culture and art, our everyday life, references to the world of mass media, simulators of artificial life, music, architecture, landscape or cultural texts. The common denominator in the field of imaging is the language of geometry. In the discursive area, the common denominator is the title grid, understood very broadly and ambiguously.

The word "grid" in English refers to the concept of "lattice", "net", "network". In a broader sense, it may define a structure, plan, scheme, arrangement or connections and existing dependencies. In the case of considerations on art, and above all on the image, it is synonymous with the term "composition", it is a means leading to establishing a visual order, an organizing principle. Grid can manifest itself both as an invisible structural skeleton of a work, existing within its tension system, an interaction of axes and directions, but also a directly drawn figure, not only determining a given artifact but also constituting its content. Grid is an inherent feature of the morphology of all artistic forms. It occurs already in ancient times, when Egyptians, Greeks or Romans began to use a mathematical module in the construction of all objects in the field of art and architecture. Later, its form depends on the perspective, i.e. the geometric projection representing a given space. At the beginning of the 20th century, it began to demonstrate its purest form - a diagram of parallel and perpendicular intersecting lines. The avant-garde and the neo-avant-garde make the grid a subject of independence. In postmodern practices, its significance extends to various types of networks, relationships of complex and changing connections situated in all areas of modern life. We understand it as a system that integrates and manages the elements of the structure and the resources of its content. Among other things, it is an inseparable element of the digital environment, it is a matrix on which digital processes are carried out in the field of creating and processing images.

The deliberately assumed multidirectional nature of the exhibition, based on three equal areas KONKRET / DISKURS / GRID, indicates the vitality of art expressed in the language of geometry, its evolution, exceeding the program limits and a contemporary game with the theoretical context in which works of art function. 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 and relationships.

prof. Wiesław Łuczaj aka Mark Starel

Exhibiton curator