Michal Budny
dal 19/11/2013 al 17/1/2014
Segnalato da
19/11/2013
Michal Budny
Galerie naechst St. Stephan, Wien
Ashamed and Shameless. His artistic body of objects and installations create perceptual potentials through instable processes and ephemeral transparencies. He uses adhesive tape, cardboard, foils, tracing paper, and wood.
Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder is pleased to present the third solo exhibition of new works by the polish artist Michał Budny.
Budny’s artistic body of objects and installations create perceptual potentials through instable processes and ephemeral transparencies. The physical presence of his works relies heavily on the materiality of the sparse, seemingly expressionless materials he prefers to use like, adhesive tape, cardboard, foils, tracing paper, and wood. His fragile constructions, which are pure and reduced in form, thus reflect unique contingencies and consistencies in time and space.
How does art behave in a room? For his solo exhibition Ashamed and Shameless the artist draws inspiration from abandoned spaces, border areas, and marginal situations. He employed recycled materials found in courtyards of apartment complexes, such as textiles and blankets that perceptibly radiate the aura and atmosphere of vulnerability of these places inside the space of a gallery exhibition.
For this exhibition, Budny installed medium-density fiberboard flooring with integrated platform levels, covering the gallery’s elegant parquet and creating a kind of clean slate. Concealment and exposure are thus integral elements of the different scenes in this staged gallery performance. The multifarious material layers of pictorial objects are concealing and revealing at the same time. Blankets, pieces of paper stuck together, and layers of overlapping foils converge at the threshold of visibility to question the relationship between picture support and material application. Is the concealed image the picture? Or is it simply a frame in wrapping? What becomes visible, exactly, when gaps in the foils offer us a glimpse of what is inside? Is the picture the back of the picture – or is it a bit of the frame peeking through?
Heightened perception is the theme of Michał Budny’s art. He describes his works as organisms of interconnected parts. These organisms have a semi-material and delicate existence. They highlight the strangeness of objects. Because of their materiality, the objects seem to live an inaccessible independent existence; yet in their relationship with the viewer, they act as potential sparks, activating a chain of associations.
Michał Budny was born in 1976 in Leszno, Poland. Selected exhibitions include: Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev; National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (both 2012); Kunstmuseum Stuttgart; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (both 2011); South London Gallery, London (2010) and Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2009). The artist lives and works in Warsaw, Poland.
Image: Untitled, 2013, cardboard, silver foil, foil, lacquer, acrylic paint, lacquered wooden frame with glass 109,2 x 159,2 x 5 cm
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Opening: 20 November 2013, 7pm
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