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24/4/2014

Wilhelm Sasnal / Not I

Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore

Wilhelm Sasnal
Take Me To The Other Side

Lismore Castle Arts is delighted to announce that the annual international exhibition for 2014 will be a solo show by Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal (b. 1972), ‘Take Me To The Other Side’, which opens on 18 April and continues until 21 September at Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Co Waterford, Ireland. Staged in collaboration with Sadie Coles HQ, the exhibition will feature new painting, drawing and film work.

’Take Me To The Other Side’ will explore the influence on Sasnal of the fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen. As a young boy growing up in 1970s Poland, Sasnal often read collected volumes of Andersen’s stories published in Polish. The vivid illustrations contained within these volumes have continued to inspire the artist’s practice. For this exhibition, he has created a new body of work which references those illustrations, realised in his signature reductive graphic style.

To coincide with the launch of the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion at Lismore Castle Arts on contemporary painting. Throughout the summer there will be a programme of events involving cultural commentators and a specially commissioned publication will be published in summer 2014.

To mark the opening of the exhibition, a book published by Lismore Castle Arts is being launched on 25 April. This publication, featuring an essay by Brian Dillon and an interview with Wilhelm Sasnal, is limited to 500, individually numbered, copies.

Painting As A Dream
Friday 25th April 3pm

To coincide with the launch of the exhibition, there will be a panel discussion at Lismore Castle Arts on the role of painting in contemporary practice, with contributions from Brian Fay (D.I.T.), Christina Kennedy (I.M.M.A.), James Merrigan (+billion- journal) and Katy Moran (artist).

Spaces are limited. There is no charge for this event however booking is essential.
For further information or to book tickets please contact Paul McAree

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Not I
Róża Litwa, Agnieszka Polska and Wojciech Bąkowski

18 April - 6 July, 2014

The exhibition 'Not I' brings together the works of three artists representing the young generation in Polish art: Róża Litwa, Agnieszka Polska and Wojciech Bąkowski, whose works present a set of narrations and distinctive languages. Their diverse artistic approaches are showed in a mix of mediums and forms: sound, object, animation and gouaches.

Agnieszka Polska's meditative film collages express a feeling of isolation and inability to establish a real connection with the past, which leads to distortions of the present. Her painstakingly executed animated collages, realized in a very slow motion are made from all sorts of visual sources and add up to the constant re-writing of history, including the history of art. Her use of technological tools in making these works results in an even more mediated narrative and evokes a rather bleak atmosphere, yet remains visually very attractive.

Wojciech Bakowski's isolation can be heard from within the interior of his own apartment – the artist’s personality is revealed through his voice as his major mediums remain music and poetry, which absorb and contain everything around him and occasionally materialize into objects. In an isolated home environment, he makes objects that are like material renderings of his alter ego’s incessant flow of words describing mundane surrounding. These objects usually contain moving devices, which seem to be sending and receiving signals and messages, albeit distorted.

Róża Litwa in her series of oil drawings seeks identity in a delicate and subtle depiction of a repeatedly occurring subject - a body: formed by a bordering, vibrating line, which makes these works function almost as diagrams or graphs of a membrane. They are rendered by a neurotic personality and usually show the body disfigured, mechanically multiplied or isolated.

The title of the exhibition refers to Samuel Beckett's famous piece ‘Not I’ recorded for television, where the actress’ mouth constantly spurting words is seen completely disjointed from the black background. The exhibition delves intothese resonating sounds and words, awkward objects and emerging selves.

For further information on the exhibitions, or to request images, please contact Paul McAree, gallery@lismorecastlearts.ie Exhibitions Coordinator or call +353 (0)58 54061.

Opening: 25 April, 6–9pm

Lismore Castle Arts: St Carthage Hall
Chapel Street, Lismore, Co Waterford, Ireland
Open Fridays, Saturday and Sundays 1-6pm.
Free Admission.

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