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Reynold Reynolds (USA), presentation and meeting with artist, CSW Kino.LAB 18.08.2011

Reynold Reynolds (USA)
presentation and meeting with artist
18.08.2011, 6.30 pm
KINO.LAB
free entrance

*meeting in English with Polish translation

Reynold Reynolds (born in 1966 in Central Alaska, USA) – current resident in A-I-R Laboratory at the CCA Ujazdowski Castle. In 1995 he finished an M.F.A. in New York City at the School of Visual Arts. Pracuje głównie na taśmie filmowej 16 lub 8 milimetrowej. He was awarded the John Simone Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. 2004 he was invited to The American Academy in Berlin with a studio at Künstlerhaus Bethanien for one year. 2007 he received the German Kunst-fonds support to develop two projects in Berlin in 2008. In 2010 he had a eight month residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude.

Presented artworks:

1. Seven Days Til Sunday, 1998, 10 min.
Super 8mm

A succession of image sequences shows the human figure falling through the cityscape towards violent annihilation by the natural forces of fire and water. 

2. Burn, 2002, 10 Min.
16mm

A house burns from the inside while its occupants focus on the emotional issues of their lives.

3. Six Apartments, 2007, 12 Min.
16mm

Six isolated people live in their apartments, side by side, oblivious to each other and the violent process of deterioration happening to the earth, to them, and their apartments.

4. The Secrects Trilogy

The Secrets Trilogy is a three-part cycle exploring the imperceptible conditions that frame life and is preceded by Secret Life (won the 2008 EMAF Festival Award at the European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck, Germany) and Secret Machine(3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2009, Russia).
The work is based on the book Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of physics explained by its most brilliant teacher by Richard P. Feynman.

-Secret Life, 2008, 10 min.
16mm and stills

A woman is trapped in an apartment that becomes alive. Her thoughts escape from her and come to life growing like plants out into the space around her, living, searching, overtaking her apartment, wild threatening her.

-Secret Machine, 2009, 14 min.
16mm and stills 

The same protagonist from Secret Life encounters an antagonist that is studying her, measuring her body and comparing her to units of space and time. 

-Six Easy Pieces, 2010, 10 min. 
16mm and stills

5. Last Day of the Republik, 2009, 8 min.
16mm

The Palast der Republik (Palace of the Republic) opened in 1976 as a meeting place for the East German people and an emblem of the future. The unique modern building made of distinctive golden-mirrored windows was home to not just the East German Parliament but also auditoriums, art galleries, five restaurants, concert halls, and even a bowling alley.

Directed by Reynold Reynolds
Cinematography by Carlos Vasquez
With a poem by Gerhard Falkner
Composer Giuseppe Iacono

TOTAL time: 74 min.


Reynold Reynolds
Residency stay: June – August 2011
www.reynold-reynolds.com

Graphyphoto Exhibition opening . Milanovo 13.08.2011

photographer: Oleg Burdzenia

Agata Bogacka PAMIĘTNIKI / DIARIES, 12.08.2011 19.00 Zachęta Gallery

Exhibition opening
Friday 12th August 2011 at 7 p.m
The exhibition Diaries presents Agata Bogacka’s newest paintings, a part of which were made under the influence of family histories either remembered or rediscovered after many years, and an interest on the artist’s part in her own genealogy. The artist’s references to autobiographical elements are just a pretext for a more universal reflection on the theme of human memory. The artist is interested in the ways in which we record, and then recreate from memory certain images and the distortions that result from this process.

One of the key inspirations is a document found in her family archive: a notebook belonging to Paulina Żuławska, the artist’s grandmother, from the time of the Warsaw Uprising. The description of a route that the author had to take contained in the diary became the entry point for a work in which Bogacka tries to reconstruct that route. She has also painted similar “painting-maps” on the basis of the diary of Jonas Mekas, as well as the war-time recollections of Thomas Buergenthal.

In the painting compositions Exhibition 1 and Exhibition 2, meanwhile, the artist in symbolic mode attempts to piece back together the fragments of a broken sculpture made by her aunt, the sculptor Hanna Żuławska, on the basis of preserved photographs of her exhibitions. The nostalgic activity of putting in order old family photographs becomes for the painter an inspiration for creating a collage that resembles a genealogical tree. Composed of photographs only of women, the collage forms a declaration of feminism surprising in the light of the artist’s earlier comments on this topic.

Thus, works by Agata Bogacka based on a monochromatic colour-scheme and a diversity of textures are set in composition with selected paintings from the last three years (for example, from the series Mirroring from 2008 or Tatras from 2009) demonstrate both a new sphere of thematic interests and an evolution in the artist’s creative stance – we can observe a clear transition from the “here and now” to history understood in broad terms, and also a totally different stylistic approach from that used hitherto. Unchanged remains the artist’s interest in modes of recording reality and registering one’s emotional states, of the type we find in diaries or notebooks.

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curator Joanna Kordjak

The artist is realising this project realised under the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland scholarship.

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