Difference between revisions of "Michał Brzeziński"
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| − | Michał Brzeziński, born in 1975, artist, curator in Centre for Contemporary Arts "Łaźnia" in Gdańsk, a graduate of film studies at the Media and Audiovisual Culture Department at the University of Łodź. MA thesis entitled Subject, Body, Identity. A Contribution to Cybercultural Anthropology completed in 2003 (prof. [[Ryszard Kluszczynski]]). His work combines the tradition of video art and experimental cinema and is a reflection on the phenomenon of identity in the new media. In order to define video art and describe its functioning in society, he introduces the notions of VIRUS-VIDEO or VIDEO-IDENTITY. To him, video is the only appropriate language of the new media. Nature of video as well as cinema and all type medium is the time. Time in his multi-layer structures is redefinition of "light theory" of artistic film. The art definition and the private vision of aesthetic, also like the paradigm of contemporary art is for him The Distance. The idea regarding to Robakowski's point of view in work "My Videomasochism", as deny for the idea of reality in Body Art. His researches of video language are based on editing process seen through structuralism and generativism. Language theory of video leads him to idea of The Fake as main idea of video image, and explains way of creating identity of new media through the video. Kind of his procesual statement are works like: Warszawa 2003 (2003), AV60 (2005), INFLUENCE (2007), MODERN POST MORTEM (2008). | + | Michał Brzeziński, born in 1975, artist, curator in Centre for Contemporary Arts "Łaźnia" in Gdańsk, a graduate of film studies at the Media and Audiovisual Culture Department at the University of Łodź. MA thesis entitled Subject, Body, Identity. A Contribution to Cybercultural Anthropology completed in 2003 (prof. [[Ryszard Kluszczynski]]). His work combines the tradition of video art and experimental cinema and is a reflection on the phenomenon of identity in the new media. In order to define video art and describe its functioning in society, he introduces the notions of VIRUS-VIDEO or VIDEO-IDENTITY. To him, video is the only appropriate language of the new media. Nature of video as well as cinema and all type medium is the time. Time in his multi-layer structures is redefinition of "light theory" of artistic film. The art definition and the private vision of aesthetic, also like the paradigm of contemporary art is for him The Distance. The idea regarding to Robakowski's point of view in work "My Videomasochism", as deny for the idea of reality in Body Art. His researches of video language are based on editing process seen through structuralism and generativism. Language theory of video leads him to idea of The Fake as main idea of video image, and explains way of creating identity of new media through the video. Kind of his procesual statement are works like: Warszawa 2003 (2003), AV60 (2005) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A95s1AoWkYU], INFLUENCE (2007), MODERN POST MORTEM (2008). |
His work was presented in Józef Robakowski's Programme "Polish Found Footage 1957-2004", at Rzeźnia Miejska while the II Art Fair in Poznań. Additionally, Brzeziński's exhibitions were displayed at Lublin Art Gallery, Space-twoentwo Gallery in London and as a part of Galeria Wymiany collection: "New Video Energies" at the Art Centre of Poznań and "DVD - new video energies" at the Manhattan Gallery in Łódź. Moreover, he took part in Krzysztof Jurecki's lectures entitled "Supplement to the history of Polish experimental cinema and Polish video art (1983-2006)" held in the Centre for Contemporary Arts "Łaźnia" in Gdańsk, at the "Kont" Art Gallery in Lublin, the "Wozownia" Art Gallery in Toruń, the Centre for Contemporary Arts "Zamek Ujazdowski" in Warsaw. A one-man exhibition of his work Peer Gynt took place at A. Rubinstein's Concert Hall in Łódź. Other solo exhibitions were held at the Arsenal Art Gallery in Białystok, the "Bunkier Sztuki" Art Gallery in Cracow and Art Museum in Łódź. He participated in two shows at the Biennial of Łódź in 2006. | His work was presented in Józef Robakowski's Programme "Polish Found Footage 1957-2004", at Rzeźnia Miejska while the II Art Fair in Poznań. Additionally, Brzeziński's exhibitions were displayed at Lublin Art Gallery, Space-twoentwo Gallery in London and as a part of Galeria Wymiany collection: "New Video Energies" at the Art Centre of Poznań and "DVD - new video energies" at the Manhattan Gallery in Łódź. Moreover, he took part in Krzysztof Jurecki's lectures entitled "Supplement to the history of Polish experimental cinema and Polish video art (1983-2006)" held in the Centre for Contemporary Arts "Łaźnia" in Gdańsk, at the "Kont" Art Gallery in Lublin, the "Wozownia" Art Gallery in Toruń, the Centre for Contemporary Arts "Zamek Ujazdowski" in Warsaw. A one-man exhibition of his work Peer Gynt took place at A. Rubinstein's Concert Hall in Łódź. Other solo exhibitions were held at the Arsenal Art Gallery in Białystok, the "Bunkier Sztuki" Art Gallery in Cracow and Art Museum in Łódź. He participated in two shows at the Biennial of Łódź in 2006. | ||
Revision as of 00:29, 20 June 2009
Michał Brzeziński, born in 1975, artist, curator in Centre for Contemporary Arts "Łaźnia" in Gdańsk, a graduate of film studies at the Media and Audiovisual Culture Department at the University of Łodź. MA thesis entitled Subject, Body, Identity. A Contribution to Cybercultural Anthropology completed in 2003 (prof. Ryszard Kluszczynski). His work combines the tradition of video art and experimental cinema and is a reflection on the phenomenon of identity in the new media. In order to define video art and describe its functioning in society, he introduces the notions of VIRUS-VIDEO or VIDEO-IDENTITY. To him, video is the only appropriate language of the new media. Nature of video as well as cinema and all type medium is the time. Time in his multi-layer structures is redefinition of "light theory" of artistic film. The art definition and the private vision of aesthetic, also like the paradigm of contemporary art is for him The Distance. The idea regarding to Robakowski's point of view in work "My Videomasochism", as deny for the idea of reality in Body Art. His researches of video language are based on editing process seen through structuralism and generativism. Language theory of video leads him to idea of The Fake as main idea of video image, and explains way of creating identity of new media through the video. Kind of his procesual statement are works like: Warszawa 2003 (2003), AV60 (2005) [1], INFLUENCE (2007), MODERN POST MORTEM (2008).
His work was presented in Józef Robakowski's Programme "Polish Found Footage 1957-2004", at Rzeźnia Miejska while the II Art Fair in Poznań. Additionally, Brzeziński's exhibitions were displayed at Lublin Art Gallery, Space-twoentwo Gallery in London and as a part of Galeria Wymiany collection: "New Video Energies" at the Art Centre of Poznań and "DVD - new video energies" at the Manhattan Gallery in Łódź. Moreover, he took part in Krzysztof Jurecki's lectures entitled "Supplement to the history of Polish experimental cinema and Polish video art (1983-2006)" held in the Centre for Contemporary Arts "Łaźnia" in Gdańsk, at the "Kont" Art Gallery in Lublin, the "Wozownia" Art Gallery in Toruń, the Centre for Contemporary Arts "Zamek Ujazdowski" in Warsaw. A one-man exhibition of his work Peer Gynt took place at A. Rubinstein's Concert Hall in Łódź. Other solo exhibitions were held at the Arsenal Art Gallery in Białystok, the "Bunkier Sztuki" Art Gallery in Cracow and Art Museum in Łódź. He participated in two shows at the Biennial of Łódź in 2006. His artistic output has been described and commented on in Exit, Obieg magazine[2] and Tytuł Roboczy [3]. In Art Eon, Krzysztof Jurecki called him the most outstanding video theoretician. The exhibitioner of Minister of Culture and the National Heritage on 2008.
