I colour and it is dangerous
artists: Chun-Yi Chang, Maksymilian Czechlewski, Piotr Pasiewicz
opening: 22 FEB 2020, 4 p.m.
23 FEB – 31 MARCH 2020
artists: Chun-Yi Chang, Maksymilian Czechlewski, Piotr Pasiewicz
opening: 22 FEB 2020, 4 p.m.
23 FEB – 31 MARCH 2020
The exhibition unites three artists who differ. They live in different places around the world, are of different age, have completely different interests and experiences. They share an internal necessity of creation and belief that art and artistic sensitivity are important and determine the life of every artist, man of culture, curator or art historian. From this perspective, artistic creativity is the basis of various human lives. But it is also a type of person, whose attitude is not obvious. It is the element, without creation has no sense - the recipient - a sensitive viewer, collector or enthusiast, but often also an "ordinary man", breaking artistic hearts with sentences for example "my five-year-old child can do it." The meeting with the latter character - an ordinary viewer unprepared for art - could be dangerous for the artist. The title of the exhibition refers to the words one of the presented artists - Maksymilian Czechlewski. This four-year-old boy, creating abstract art, intuitively spoke about his creative activity.
In the era of postmodernism, theories about contemporary art are multiplying, which appropriates subsequent areas of reality - everything can be art and anyone can become an artist. The multitude of possibilities introduces cognitive dissonance. Practicing art becomes an easy, accessible, even primary activity, and at the same time unique, unattainable and conceptual. The intellectualized theses of theoreticians and the sincere claims of cultural practitioners compare the artist to God's anointed or to a cultural prostitute.
In FWD: we ask: who is the artist and what is art? Probably every answer will be good, but not everyone is interesting for us.
WHO IS AN ARTIST?
Chun-Yi Chang: The answer to this question is in my description below for the series “This Is Very Simple”, from which the video is presented at the exhibition. But if I try to say more, I’ll say that the artist is able to “dé-cioncider” with the world, event including his own ideas. (Ps. Dé-coincidence is a concept of a French philosopher François Jullien).
“......In the video, the dynamic images as ID photo resemble to the RPG game interface not officially activated and the artists are thus conditioned in a transition state of “being paradoxically themselves and yet not fully the others.” They repeat the co-referential sentences in a circular space as if an arena of creation contest were constructed. Do the character rotation and the artwork’s shift of reference delineate one of the contours of art-creating form in our times? Or, do the clamorous, diverging discourses implicitly destabilize the inseparable interdependence between author and work?
fragment of the text comes from the exhibition "Once Upon A Time － Unfinished Progressive Past", MOCA Taipei
Maksymilian Czechlewski: Well, I think it is me...
Piotr Pasiewicz: The artist carries a vessel filled with concentrated infinity. It gives it to those thirsty as water, but its vessel always remains full, because by finding forms of escape for an immeasurable message, it also creates new entities emitting new energies, synergies, spaces and times.
WHAT IS ART?
Chun-Yi Chang: This question is big in contemporary art. Because if there is an answer to this question, then “what is art cannot be” will be the answer. But in fact, it's difficult to say. So I don't have an idea for answer for now.
Maksymilian Czechlewski: I don't remember.
Piotr Pasiewicz: Art is a whisper of the whole world processed by human senses and reason. Complex information impossible to interpret in one dimension, and at the same time not needing this interpretation, because it is a being in itself. And an absolute being.
Chun-Yi Chang - born in 1975 in Taipei. Chun-Yi Chang received an MA from the Rouen College of the Arts and her PhD the University of Paris Sorbonne. In 2009, she was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture for a residency at 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica. She was also awarded the Gerda Henkel Stiftung scholarship in 2013. Chang’s participation in exhibitions include the 5th and 11th White Night (la Nuit Blanche) and 6th Young Artists Biennale, Paris, and French-Chinese Young Artists, Today Art Museum, Peking. Chun-Yi Chang’s work focuses on the presentation of light reality within digital images. She uses the “floating light” and “glimpse” of digital images to remodel a sense of light reality that wavers between reality and virtual reality.
Maksymilian Czechlewski – born in 2015 in Poznań. He attends the Jeżyki Kindergarten in Poznań Jeżyce. His hobby is to paint with everything he can. He can wash and dress himself, speak well and make logical sentences, cut fruit and vegetables, tell stories. He is able to write simple words, including his name. He i salso capable to light with the stick. He paints mainly with acrylic and poster paints. He has started to paint at the age of three.
Piotr Pasiewicz - born in 1979 in Łódź. He graduated with honors the Faculty of Graphics and Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź in the Painting Studio I (Open Book). In 2011 he received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture. He makes graphics, drawings, performance, video art and short film forms. In his actions he consistently creates a world in which shapes saturated with metaphysics arise in a spontaneous creative act.
In the era of postmodernism, theories about contemporary art are multiplying, which appropriates subsequent areas of reality - everything can be art and anyone can become an artist. The multitude of possibilities introduces cognitive dissonance. Practicing art becomes an easy, accessible, even primary activity, and at the same time unique, unattainable and conceptual. The intellectualized theses of theoreticians and the sincere claims of cultural practitioners compare the artist to God's anointed or to a cultural prostitute.
In FWD: we ask: who is the artist and what is art? Probably every answer will be good, but not everyone is interesting for us.
WHO IS AN ARTIST?
Chun-Yi Chang: The answer to this question is in my description below for the series “This Is Very Simple”, from which the video is presented at the exhibition. But if I try to say more, I’ll say that the artist is able to “dé-cioncider” with the world, event including his own ideas. (Ps. Dé-coincidence is a concept of a French philosopher François Jullien).
“......In the video, the dynamic images as ID photo resemble to the RPG game interface not officially activated and the artists are thus conditioned in a transition state of “being paradoxically themselves and yet not fully the others.” They repeat the co-referential sentences in a circular space as if an arena of creation contest were constructed. Do the character rotation and the artwork’s shift of reference delineate one of the contours of art-creating form in our times? Or, do the clamorous, diverging discourses implicitly destabilize the inseparable interdependence between author and work?
fragment of the text comes from the exhibition "Once Upon A Time － Unfinished Progressive Past", MOCA Taipei
Maksymilian Czechlewski: Well, I think it is me...
Piotr Pasiewicz: The artist carries a vessel filled with concentrated infinity. It gives it to those thirsty as water, but its vessel always remains full, because by finding forms of escape for an immeasurable message, it also creates new entities emitting new energies, synergies, spaces and times.
WHAT IS ART?
Chun-Yi Chang: This question is big in contemporary art. Because if there is an answer to this question, then “what is art cannot be” will be the answer. But in fact, it's difficult to say. So I don't have an idea for answer for now.
Maksymilian Czechlewski: I don't remember.
Piotr Pasiewicz: Art is a whisper of the whole world processed by human senses and reason. Complex information impossible to interpret in one dimension, and at the same time not needing this interpretation, because it is a being in itself. And an absolute being.
Chun-Yi Chang - born in 1975 in Taipei. Chun-Yi Chang received an MA from the Rouen College of the Arts and her PhD the University of Paris Sorbonne. In 2009, she was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture for a residency at 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica. She was also awarded the Gerda Henkel Stiftung scholarship in 2013. Chang’s participation in exhibitions include the 5th and 11th White Night (la Nuit Blanche) and 6th Young Artists Biennale, Paris, and French-Chinese Young Artists, Today Art Museum, Peking. Chun-Yi Chang’s work focuses on the presentation of light reality within digital images. She uses the “floating light” and “glimpse” of digital images to remodel a sense of light reality that wavers between reality and virtual reality.
Maksymilian Czechlewski – born in 2015 in Poznań. He attends the Jeżyki Kindergarten in Poznań Jeżyce. His hobby is to paint with everything he can. He can wash and dress himself, speak well and make logical sentences, cut fruit and vegetables, tell stories. He is able to write simple words, including his name. He i salso capable to light with the stick. He paints mainly with acrylic and poster paints. He has started to paint at the age of three.
Piotr Pasiewicz - born in 1979 in Łódź. He graduated with honors the Faculty of Graphics and Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź in the Painting Studio I (Open Book). In 2011 he received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture. He makes graphics, drawings, performance, video art and short film forms. In his actions he consistently creates a world in which shapes saturated with metaphysics arise in a spontaneous creative act.
