Marcin Maciejowski / David Jablonowski
dal 30/1/2013 al 1/6/2013
Segnalato da
30/1/2013
Marcin Maciejowski / David Jablonowski
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Jablonowski will present an installation of recent sculpture and video together with new work made especially for the exhibition. Using those already in popular circulation as starting points - found photographs, movies, posters, newspaper illustrations - Maciejowski's paintings naturally inherit the social and political implications of their source material.
Marcin Maciejowski
The work of Marcin Maciejowski (born Babice, Poland in 1974) re-presents everyday images of our time. Using those already in popular circulation as starting points - found photographs, movies, posters, newspaper illustrations - his paintings naturally inherit the social and political implications of their source material. Current affairs, film stills, military and religious figures and film noir femmes fatales all populate his art. Witty and often ironic, these subjects are presented in a deliberate abandonment of the traditions associated with the history of painting. Echoing the speed of the digital reproduction, the slowness of his chosen, analogue, medium brings an examination of the role of painting in today's cultural world.
This will be the artists first exhibition in a public UK venue and will include paintings from 2003-12.
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David Jablonowski
Tools and Orientations
David Jablonowski (born in 1982 in Bochum) makes work which investigates the history and potential of communication in visual culture. His sculptures, films and installations explore cultural aesthetics, display systems and information transfer, from calligraphic manuscripts to TV advertising and the World Wide Web. Jablonowski’s sculptures combine a wide range of materials including aluminium, plaster, Styrofoam, ceramic, wood, found texts, offset-printing plates and components from information technology hardware such as computers and flat bed scanners. He is interested in the possibilities of these materials, overlapping and layering different surfaces to make new sculptural assemblages.
At BALTIC, Jablonowski will present an installation of recent sculpture and video together with new work made especially for the exhibition.
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Opening Jan 31st
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BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays South Shore Road Gateshead NE8 3BA UK
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