JAKUB CZYSZCZOŃ
EVIL AIR 2010-05-14 - 2010-06-16
„Painting is being born with the work of a viewer”... in a dump atmosphere.
Open space is where we breathe in the substance rich in oxygen, we drag the light, respire lungs, fill the memory with landscapes.
Paintings like closed spaces. And so, space of a a painting is indeed closed, framed, formatted. Paintings like stuffy air, only then they exist in a saturation. They satiate with it-selves and grab their space, but also grab space of a human being by who they are created. The animals do not create paintings, they produce impression. Paintings do not make impression, the are to take one's breath away: gently or violently; they are to produce a sigh of a desire or boredom. We hold one's breath so we got use to an air without the life-giving substance. Oxygen-less brain is more prone to experience the desire of the utter level. This is where the risk is coming, it is risk of the last chance to feel the pleasure.
For a moment mind with a lack of oxygen works on a high speed, thoughts correspond with pictures, the mind is personifying in a fainting body, the sense is now coming over in a different understanding.
Space filled with paintings should be found with stifling air sooner or later. In painting area there is no place for commitment. Matter and structure are accidental or necessary.
What is casual and what essential in the works of Jakub Czyszczoń?
On canvases it is easy to mark the line of mentioned alternative, the more difficult is to name them. The more stuffy air fills them, the less we sense of a particular elements of the overwhelmed matter. With every moment we feel the lack of oxygen, the lack that is produced by ourselves. When we breath in, we take the oxygen.
The more you gaze at, the less sense it has... but the bliss arouses.
We love paintings, though we are the ones that barely like or are fond of art. Painting is the biggest fetish of art, at least history of art. We love it as it is, as a paint on canvas. It is not about the essence of painting in its materiality; when it is a process of picturing, when it is a representation, a re-painting we even do admire it more, sometimes quicker.
We adored when was dying and more when was reborn. The cycle of „life and death” of painting had to die as had died all the previous cycles. Under the dictatorship of a constant economic rise nowadays all the fronts are at the line of economic increase. The battle is still on, but its area is not any more the time. We do not fight for this that is to come nor we do not fight for the past. In the winning basket are only these two: life or zombie.
In the Czyszczoń's works what won are the old photos taken from the press mixed with paint. Paint joins photos, expands them or turns over with a different value. Bright photo image is never behind the fog of a painting gesture. Paint is not covering as it is not presenting nor disregarding. Life is inside the canvas.
The young artist is not paying a tribute nor inherits anything. The artist is critical (though in a devious way). In his works the easiest questions turns to be the most difficult ones. What paintings do you need, what do you desire, and finally which one make you feel excited?
How to treat ghosts and phantoms when you are unable to protect from them? What exactly is the phantom? Is it what you see? Is it all that you see? Or is it a visible essence without a material instance? Is it visible in picture but in real does not exist. What is the picture?
The photos in Czyszczoń's works are transformed in a collage, they loose their proper shape, are more demonic, they are not any more the objects of desire. At the end it is hard to tell if it is an artistic ectoplasm that possessed a bright picture? Or if the innocent painting is haunted by seducing phantoms from pieces of dead newspaper?
The gentle battle is going on, it is gentle in methods cause the object is hard. The battle is thrown not for the status of image but for life or zombie.
Jakub Czyszczon(born 1983) – he graduated High School Art in Jelenia Góra, he also study at the faculty of the Visual Comunication/Graphic at the Academy of Fine Arts (diploma in 2008 – specialization Graphic design and Easel painting), in 2005 he held a scholarship in Oslo (Hogeskole). In 2010 he participated in 9. Edition of Eugeniusz Geppert's Painting Competition. He lives and works in Poznan.
Open space is where we breathe in the substance rich in oxygen, we drag the light, respire lungs, fill the memory with landscapes.
Paintings like closed spaces. And so, space of a a painting is indeed closed, framed, formatted. Paintings like stuffy air, only then they exist in a saturation. They satiate with it-selves and grab their space, but also grab space of a human being by who they are created. The animals do not create paintings, they produce impression. Paintings do not make impression, the are to take one's breath away: gently or violently; they are to produce a sigh of a desire or boredom. We hold one's breath so we got use to an air without the life-giving substance. Oxygen-less brain is more prone to experience the desire of the utter level. This is where the risk is coming, it is risk of the last chance to feel the pleasure.
For a moment mind with a lack of oxygen works on a high speed, thoughts correspond with pictures, the mind is personifying in a fainting body, the sense is now coming over in a different understanding.
Space filled with paintings should be found with stifling air sooner or later. In painting area there is no place for commitment. Matter and structure are accidental or necessary.
What is casual and what essential in the works of Jakub Czyszczoń?
On canvases it is easy to mark the line of mentioned alternative, the more difficult is to name them. The more stuffy air fills them, the less we sense of a particular elements of the overwhelmed matter. With every moment we feel the lack of oxygen, the lack that is produced by ourselves. When we breath in, we take the oxygen.
The more you gaze at, the less sense it has... but the bliss arouses.
We love paintings, though we are the ones that barely like or are fond of art. Painting is the biggest fetish of art, at least history of art. We love it as it is, as a paint on canvas. It is not about the essence of painting in its materiality; when it is a process of picturing, when it is a representation, a re-painting we even do admire it more, sometimes quicker.
We adored when was dying and more when was reborn. The cycle of „life and death” of painting had to die as had died all the previous cycles. Under the dictatorship of a constant economic rise nowadays all the fronts are at the line of economic increase. The battle is still on, but its area is not any more the time. We do not fight for this that is to come nor we do not fight for the past. In the winning basket are only these two: life or zombie.
In the Czyszczoń's works what won are the old photos taken from the press mixed with paint. Paint joins photos, expands them or turns over with a different value. Bright photo image is never behind the fog of a painting gesture. Paint is not covering as it is not presenting nor disregarding. Life is inside the canvas.
The young artist is not paying a tribute nor inherits anything. The artist is critical (though in a devious way). In his works the easiest questions turns to be the most difficult ones. What paintings do you need, what do you desire, and finally which one make you feel excited?
How to treat ghosts and phantoms when you are unable to protect from them? What exactly is the phantom? Is it what you see? Is it all that you see? Or is it a visible essence without a material instance? Is it visible in picture but in real does not exist. What is the picture?
The photos in Czyszczoń's works are transformed in a collage, they loose their proper shape, are more demonic, they are not any more the objects of desire. At the end it is hard to tell if it is an artistic ectoplasm that possessed a bright picture? Or if the innocent painting is haunted by seducing phantoms from pieces of dead newspaper?
The gentle battle is going on, it is gentle in methods cause the object is hard. The battle is thrown not for the status of image but for life or zombie.
Jakub Czyszczon(born 1983) – he graduated High School Art in Jelenia Góra, he also study at the faculty of the Visual Comunication/Graphic at the Academy of Fine Arts (diploma in 2008 – specialization Graphic design and Easel painting), in 2005 he held a scholarship in Oslo (Hogeskole). In 2010 he participated in 9. Edition of Eugeniusz Geppert's Painting Competition. He lives and works in Poznan.