Mirosław Bałka FRAGMENT video projections CSW 14.01.2011

Mirosław Bałka

FRAGMENT

video projections

Exhibition opening: 14 January 2011, 6 pm

On view until 3 April 2011

Curator: Marek Goździewski

Gallery 2

Mirosław Bałka’s work is renowned among historians, curators, critics and collectors of contemporary art. Yet it is known mainly in fragments.

The Fragment exhibition, presented by the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, is the first comprehensive presentation of the video works of Mirosław Bałka to be held in Poland and in the world.

Video has played a unique role in Bałka’s work. The medium has allowed the artist to infuse his sculpture work with new artistic forms, as well as images and themes that have revealed themselves to be unexpected extensions of his previous work, nevertheless giving the artist fascinating avenues to step outside his own work and consider it from new perspectives.

The Fragment exhibition presents video works that span the last twelve years of Bałka’s creative work: from the beginnings, going to back the very first, created in 1998, through his most recent work (2010), which will be put on public view for the very first time.

The exhibition includes renowned works that are counted among the classics of contemporary art, such as Winterreise (2003), composed of the films Bambi and Pond, Carrousel (2004), which was acquired in 2010 by the Tate Modern for it’s collection, as well as BlueGasEyes (2004). But lesser-known works are also on display, as are entirely new creations, notably Bottom (1999/2003), Narayama (2002), Michelangelo Buonarotti Reading (2004), Flagellare A,B,C (2009) and Apple T. (2009/2010).

Several of the works featured in Fragment have been shown previously at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen K-21 in Dusseldorf (2006), the WRO Art Centre in Wrocław (2008), the University of Massachusetts in Amherst (2009) and the Modern Art Oxford, in Oxford, England (2009). The Fragment exhibition will be presented at the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin, from October to December 2011.

Parallel to the Fragment exhibition at the CCA, the Museo Reina Sofia is showing Mirosław Bałka’s Ctrl exhibition simultaneously at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid and at the Benedictine Abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos, in the northern Spanish province of Burgos (2010-2011).

Strategic Partner: SAMSUNG

Partners: The City of Warsaw, TEMPS D'IMAGES Festival, the European Commission

Media patrons: Gazeta Wyborcza, Aktivist, Exklusiv, Artinfo.pl, Sztuka.pl, Stolica, Elle Decoration