A hidden space
Editing: Anna Król
Pages: 68
ISBN: 978-83-62096-07-7
Format: 295 x 230 mm
Language: polish and english
Published: 2010
paperback
Pages: 68
ISBN: 978-83-62096-07-7
Format: 295 x 230 mm
Language: polish and english
Published: 2010
paperback
The exhibition showed works by two contemporary Polish artists: the printmaker and draughtsman Stanisław Z. Kamieński (b. 1951) and the sculptor Maciej Szańkowski (b. 1938), inspired by Zen philosophy and aesthetics. In an essay on their work, Anna Baranowa writes:
‘An obvious insanity lurks in Kamieński’s method. His Archipelagos, built of lines and circles that permeate one another rhythmically and concentrically, create spaces whose harmony comes at a high price. Looking at these ideal designs, we participate in the painful tension between attention and distraction, presence and absence, structure and chaos. Kamieński wonders if his method could be called meditation, given that he himself is unable to free himself from the dilemmas of existence, the drama of being. (…)
‘An obvious insanity lurks in Kamieński’s method. His Archipelagos, built of lines and circles that permeate one another rhythmically and concentrically, create spaces whose harmony comes at a high price. Looking at these ideal designs, we participate in the painful tension between attention and distraction, presence and absence, structure and chaos. Kamieński wonders if his method could be called meditation, given that he himself is unable to free himself from the dilemmas of existence, the drama of being. (…)
‘No wonder that such a large selection of Tracing Papers is included in the present exhibition at the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, as they are the closest to what even laymen associate with japonica today. The Tracing Papers are a kind of origami, or haiku poems drawn in space by the sculptor. (…) The Tracing Papers are – as becomes a haiku – humorous, ephemeral forms which also reach for the primeval enlightenment and the purest sources of imagination. Kamieński and Szańkowski. A master of the compass and a master of the scissors. Each, in his own way, extending an invitation to meditate.’