Piotr KLEMENSIEWICZ
Introduction
“Painting teaches me everyday to look, to think about how visible things hinge on, to test a righteous horizontal and direct look, at eye's level or to try to define something with an oblique and curved look. Because that is the speed of painting steps that create a living language. One day I think that moving images are stealthy, another I think in painted images.
If seeing a painting stops a movement, our eyes are able to link many kinds of images. Can we forgo the narrative of the one who goes from one place to another on foot? At a so subtle speed it cannot be confused with any other speed. In Terry Gillian's Brazil, a movie among others, a rustic universe stand alongside of an intense and rather dilapidated technology in which the constant presence of an after-sale service becomes the justification for the society's operation. Numerous 20th century visual experiences could not stop barbarism and flight upfront; I remain wary of technological obsession in art processes. A horizontal Babel tower with puritan dangerous and said-to-be universal shapes is constructed without us knowing. Perhaps, paintings will go back to the walls. Above, they will wear the paint out and scratch it with their hands. And if nothing else damages these walls, our eyes will alone slide on the upper parts.”
Piotr Klemensiewicz, in Le Journal des Expositions, excerpt, 1998
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Fonds Communal de la Ville de Marseille
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Institut de la Mode, Marseille
Ville de Paris
Frac Corse
Frac Paca
Musée de Montbéliard
Caisse des Dépots et des Consignations
Frac Basse Normandie
FNAC
Ville de Paris
Musée de Carcassonne
Musée de Toulon
Musée de Tournus
Musée de Marseille
Ville de Paris
Frac Paca
FNAC
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Piotr Klemensiewicz - Encombrements
author : Piotr Klemensiewicz
public price : 29 €
langue : Français
pays : France
pages : 157
format : 27.9 x 22cm
reliure : Broché