POKÓJ / Michał Slezkin Jacek Świdziński. Galeria Bielska BWA 2024
“At the exhibition, the comic book “Festival”, divided into its first parts in a comic-collage composition revealing its sources, will be juxtaposed with the game “State”, which was started 77 years ago by Bohdan Slezkin with his high school friends (including Jerzy Siewierski, Leszek Szymański and Tadeusz Strumff). In 1947, rebellious teenagers invented something like an RPG game involving diplomatic relations between imaginary countries. Each player cut out five-centimeter figures from cardboard that represented various typical citizens of their countries (politicians, uniformed officers, spies, criminals, elegant ones). ladies, etc.) Players met in their apartments, placed figures and then exchanged diplomatic notes. Sometimes the game ended with a bathroom being occupied by foreign troops or a spy being secretly installed among the books on the shelf. The game, of course, reflected the political realities of the time not only that. It is a record of eccentric passion / boredom / fears / aspirations / artistic temperaments / sense of humor / changing ideas and much, much more. Bohdan Slezkin played until the 1970s, but Michał makes sure that “State” continues to develop. We were introduced to Michał by the curator of the exhibition, Agata Smalcerz, who wants to show our perspectives on history, our workshop and miniature games with politics and history, present in both “State” and “Festival”. At least that’s how I understand this exhibition!” Jacek Świdziński
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STRANGE GARDEN, PLANTS TAKEOVER THE NARRATIVE. INNE TOWARZYSTWO, FRINGE WARSAW 2023
Is a collective story composed of works by artists of various generations who, using floral and plant motifs, raise difficult personal topics and problems affecting their communities or society. Visual attractiveness, color and plant form only serve to win over the viewer, seduce him, in order to then refer to difficult and painful, sometimes traumatic things that we usually do not want to talk about.
Artists invited to participate in the exhibition: Dagmara Barańska-Morzy, Agata Becher, Grzegorz Bożek, Maks Cieślak,Jagoda Dobecka, Kuba Falk, Wojciech Gilewicz, Agata Groszek, Hamed Jaberha, Bartosz Kokosiński, Piotr Korol, Julian Malinowski, Monika Mamzeta i Robert Kuta, Agata Nowosielska, Anna Panek, Małgorzata Pawlak, Janusz Petrykowski, Krzysztof Piętka, Katarzyna Proniewska-Mazurek, Krystiana Robb-Narbutt, Michał Slezkin, Katarzyna Sobczuk, Andrzej Tobis, Małgorzata Widomska, Julia Woronowicz i Dorota CzekalskaLiliana Zeic (Piskorska)
A SEASON IN HELL. THE 11TH CURATED EXHIBITION OF BIELSKA JESIEŃ 2022
The artwork presented at the exhibition looks at the concept and popular perception of hell as a complex and multi-layered metaphor of the present.
This curated exhibition, which is a part of the Bielska Jesień Painting Biennale, has been conceived and presented by Stach Szabłowski, a curator and art critic with a keen eye for all the latest developments in the work of young Polish artists. After the pandemic-imposed hiatus in 2020, this year Galeria Bielska BWA will finally be able to present “A Season in Hell” – the 11th Curated Exhibition of Bielska Jesień 2022.
The artists participating in the exhibition: Adam Adach, Olga Dmowska, Michał Frydrych, Jakub Gliński, Karolina Jabłońska, Bartek Kiełbowicz, Tomasz Kręcicki, Agata Kus, Monika Misztal, Zofia Pałucha, Cyryl Polaczek, Nikola Linda Strenger, Michał Slezkin, Paweł Susid, Paweł Śliwiński, Janek Zamoyski, Paweł Ponury Żukowski and Krzysztof Garbaczewski.
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- Les Fleurs du mal. The moment that has passed cycle. | 2022 | Oil on canvas. 130×170 cm
- Les Fleurs du mal. The moment that has passed cycle. | 2022 | Oil on canvas. 130×170 cm
- Les Fleurs du mal. The moment that has passed cycle. | 2022 | Oil on canvas. 180×180 cm
- Apocalipse. The moment that has passed cycle. | 2020 | Oil on canvas 180 x 180 cm
Pencil box.. I dreamed of series | 2019 | Wood , ceramique, plate, paint / 160x50x35cm
“Visit”. The State projeckt | 2013 | Paper, gouache, ink, photo, styrofoam, cast aluminium,plastic, wood. | 100x70x40 cm.
The works from this series bear the common title “Les fleurs du mal”. “Flowers of Evil”. I chose the title of Charles Baudelaire’s most famous book of poetry because of the contrast of meanings contained in it and the beauty of the original wording of the title itself. It suggests a certain contradiction, a paradox – it talks about the beauty of things and the world, phenomena seemingly full of beauty, but also subject to the process of passing, sadness, melancholy, darkness and ambiguity.