Evening Screening and Artist Talk in the Kino
Part of the group exhibition Theatre of Measurement
Tuesday 21 March 2017, 7pm
On Tuesday 21 March 2017, Kunstverein München presents a special screening and artist talk by Piotr Bosacki, as part of the ongoing exhibition Theatre of Measurement. This event will also serve to inaugurate a new configuration in the Schaufenster, with the addition of two artists to the equation of Theatre of Measurement: stanley brouwn and Nina Canell.
To begin the evening, Kunstverein München curator Post Brothers will give a brief introduction to the year-long exhibition and will share some insight into the works currently on display. At 7:30 pm, we will all converge in the Kino and then Piotr Bosacki will present a series of his animations and will speak about his development as an artist, with emphasis on two trends in his activity: literary and abstract. Along the way, the artist will give insight into his theories regarding composition and the 'Economy of Elements', and will show some new, unseen, works.
Piotr Bosacki is an artist, based in Poznan. While his practice includes literary texts, musical compositions, drawings, installations, mechanised objects, and animated films, it is perhaps most accurate to describe him as a philosopher of language and physics, charting their inextricable interrelation. He often implements and shares his investigations through simple stop-motion animations where real objects perform and demonstrate specific problems and theories, thus blending the concrete with the abstract. Using a strict economy of means, the artist produces complex systems of representation that accesses crucial philosophical and existential issues. A series of drawings, a string, a group of screws, a rubber band, a pen dissolving in acetone, or a rotting piece of meat are regarded by the artist as 'natural machines', the work of which still surpasses the complex possibilities of even the biggest computers. While some of these demonstrations function only as abstract films that illustrate the possibilities of a given instrument, form, or technique, other films by the artist juxtaposes these visuals with spoken commentary that embraces contradiction and are at once poetic, personal, and highly analytical. The result is an idiosyncratic form of knowledge production where logical (linguistic) space and physical space are shown to be identical, and the artwork is proven to be a natural being, a complex manifestation of the structure and functioning of bodies in mutual interaction.
Piotr Bosacki
Lives and works in Poznań, Poland.
Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań.
Works in the Intermedia Department at the University of Arts in Poznań since 2004.
Member of the artistic group Penerstwo.
In his creative work he uses a variety of media and forms, including drawing, animated film, installation, musical composition and literature.
His PhD thesis The Economy of Elements (2011) is a perspicacious treatise about an artwork and language as such.
In 2009 he invented continuous motion picture technology (film without frames).