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Upgrade! Warsaw: "Art, a Way of Life" Monday, 15.06.2009, 19:00 During the subsequent meeting being a part of the series Upgrade! Warsaw, we would like to invite you to the screening of a report film "Art, a Way of Life " made by the "Let's Do It" Group (Anna Cygańczyk, Aga Munk, Go¶ka Piotrowska). "Art, a Way of Life" is a documentary picturing the condition of today's "Young Art" and its Creators. In their film, the authors make us familiar with the artists, the ones who are successful as well as those who strive after achieving such success with bigger or smaller determination. Is being an artist a difficult profession? Can you make ends meet living from art? Is achieving success just a question of talent and determination? Who are today's artists actually? The answers to these questions will let you form your own opinion on Contemporary Art. (-) Witold Lisicki JAKUB WESOŁOWSKI "OUT OF FOCUS" ALEKSANDRA POLISIEWICZ "HYLOGENIA" opening: 20 April (Monday) at 19:00 exhibition: from 21.04 to 24.05.2009 Jakub Wesołowski, born in 1977, graduated from the Studio of Audiovisual Space of the Warsaw's Academy of Fine Arts (2003). Performer, author of installations and video films; co-author of socio-artistic events, holder of a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. The artist's works were shown at places such as the XIV International Biennale of Sculpture in Poznań (2004), and at the exhibitions: "Tolerate Me", Warsaw (2005);" Demos Kratos-the Power of the People", Klima Bocheńska Gallery, Warsaw (2006), Galeria Bielska, Bielsko Biała, BWA, Zielona Góra (2007); "The Concrete Heritage. From Le Corbusier to Homeboys", CSW, Warsaw (2007); "Body/Geometry", BWA, Zielona Góra (2008). The main motifs of his art are the problems of tolerance/intolerance and the analysis of a religious man's thought. "Out of Focus" is a sound and visual installation that evokes an impression of a presence of an unindentified cult. The author used the special technique of glosolalia, creating vocal arrangements composed of word-like sounds, referring to the Evangelical "speaking languages". The recordings for his work were realised in a post-Mariavite church in Pogorzela. In this work, the author confronts his childhood, the experience of a cult place that now undergoes rationalisation and in a way becomes deconstructed into components, into pure energies of sound reflected from the walls and the vault, and into the participants' concentration on "something" above, something extraterrestial. Thus, even though it lacks the exact address, the recording in the church-even a desacralised one-places the entire work rather univocally. The excess of energy, sometimes resembling the explosions of sound, characteristic for eastern cults or the Maori "haka", makes us ponder over the organizing of joint exultations that surpass the local inclinations, providing the "sacrum" energy later used in daily life. {the realisation of the " Out of Focus" project is supported by the Ministry of Culture an the National Heritage} 
Jakub Wesołowski: Out of Focus, 2009 (frame from the film)
Jakub Wesołowski: Out of Focus, 2009 (frame from the film)
Aleksandra Polisiewicz, born in 1974 in Katowice, raised in Gliwice. Studied at the Art Institute of the Silesian University in Cieszyn. Lives and works in Warsaw. The exhibition combines the works realised over the past few years, and the majority of them have already been presented at different art centres in Poland and abroad. The title is a Greek concept defining the moment of God's creation of the materia. At the same time, it is also the title of a film presenting the "Stitching Together", identifying heaven and earth, while leaving no space for gods. The works refer to different indications of spirituality, which is developed mainly to legitimize power. We are aware that even the kind of power that has originated by choice, is supported by a divine or a quasi divine choice. It could be the Nation, the tradition, age-long and unchangeable values... It often is conscious of having access to the higher truth and in a godly way attempts to form the social materia, that according to its opinion is often oblivious, nihilistic and deprived of sublime goals. People of this kind of formation are referred to in " The Idol from the Banks of the Vistula"- a baluster, the shape of which resembles the one of a politician, who has forbidden to have his profile photographed. The power that is meant to rule, divides instead. And this is the subject of " The Balance of the Disturbed Elements", referring to the conflict generating nature of borders and divisions. "The Inflation Blocks", inspired by a photograph documenting the times of hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic, refers to the special ties between the power and the moments of a crisis, leading to its authoritarian ideas that the terrified society consents to. "The Quantum of Power", the artist's only one new work, in which she uses photographs taken over a decade ago in the attic of the her grandmother's house, refers to the most inner circle of the power's functioning and handing it down. Elegance and the charm of violence - the essential attribute of power, is the subject of another work titled "The Power of Mandala". It is composed of coloured photographs of the valves of cannons from the Swedish arsenal. The cohesion of this exhibition that by necessity required fast preparation, is a result of the author's longtime interest in many aspects of power, domination and the conditions in which they are realised. 
Aleksandra Polisiewicz: Hylogenia, 2008 (frame from the film)
Aleksandra Polisiewicz: Power of Mandala, 2007
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