Adam Garnek [Poland] EKRAN 2018, EKRAN NA ŻYCZENIE, FIKCJA I REALNOŚĆ
sculptures from the STALOWE EKRANY series
building of the Cultural Centre in Lublin, 12 Peowiaków St.
Two sculptures: “Screen 2018” and “Screen on request” were created for public places, building halls , corridors, railway stations. The third sculpture : ‘Fiction and Reality’ was created for more ‘intimate’ situations, but still accessible spaces.
The artist is fascinated by the rectangular format through which man has learned to view the world. Portraying the world in the convention of the rectangle is a very human, synthetic point of view, because there are no rectangles in nature. The steel screens are curios, interactive sculptures – self-contained entities accessible to the public.
http://adamgarnek.pl/
ADAM GARNEK
Born in 1964, in Kazimiera Wielka, creator of sculptures and installations. In 1983-1988 he studied at the Faculty of Painting, Graphics and Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. In 1988, he obtained his diploma from the Faculty of Sculpture. Like the Futurists, he is fascinated by movement and machines. He constructs devices, most often in the form of mobiles, which only seemingly serve a practical purpose. The dynamics unleashed in interaction with the viewer constitute their aesthetic dimension, and the changes taking place are often more important than the object itself.
Participation in exhibitions:
1985 Exhibition of one form – UTILIS Gallery, Poznań
1986 Young Artists of Poznań – BWA, Poznań
1989 International plein-air workshop for artists, Orońsko
1989 Sculptors of Poznań – BWA, Poznań
1990 Berllanderi Sculpture Workshop, U.K. – international open air workshop
1990 Five Forms – WIELKA 19 Gallery, Poznan (individual exhibition)
1990 Towards Cognition – MTP, Poznan
1991 IV Biennale of New Art, Zielona Góra
1992 Eleventh Form – Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (individual exhibition)
1992 Symposium “Meeting and Creation” – M.C.S., Poznań
1993 Symposium on Ecology – M.C.S., Poznań
1993 Künstlerforum, Bonn
1993 Pressure Tower, Bydgoszcz (individual exhibition)
1994 Art in Nitra – symposium, Bratislava
1995 solo exhibition – BWA, Sopot
1995 TAPKO A SPACE – Overgaden, Copenhagen
1995 individual exhibition “Presentation of Machines and Vehicles” – POTOCKA Gallery, Cracow
1995 New I’s For New Years – Polish Art of the 90’s Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1996 Individual exhibition – MIEJSCE SZTUKI 5362 m³ Gallery, Mosina
1996 BWA Sandomierz (individual exhibition)
1997 Transfer of emotions in Polish art of the 1990s, Budapest
1997 Set to use – individual exhibition – AT Gallery, Poznan
1998 Transfer Poland, Rhineland-Westphalia
1998 Museum X. Dunikowski, Warsaw
1998 WYSPA Gallery, Gdansk
1998 Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow
1998 Van Der Heyd Museum, Wupertal
1998 Künsthalle Bielefeld
1999 Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok – individual exhibition
1999 Kontperformance 5, Lublin
2000 INNER SPACE Centre for Contemporary Art “Machine, vehicle, device” (individual exhibition)
2001 Mobile Gaeststtelier Hollufgard, Odense (Denmark)
2002 Two Drawing Machines – G.C.K. Katowice (individual exhibition)
2002 Alternatives of Technology” – Theatre Academia Warsaw
2002 Gallery XXI – Machines for drawing (kinetic objects) – Warsaw (individual exhibition)
2003 Exhibition on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of AT Gallery – BWA, Poznan
2006 Inbetween – exhibition of European artists – Gallery Woorim, Seoul (Korea)
2007 ASIA – EUROPA mediations – exhibition of European and Asian artists, Poznan, Poland
2007 DIALOGUES – Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
2007 Fluxus East – Akumulatory 2 IP gallery, Berlin
2008 Machines for exploring the world – participation in a project organised by the House of Culture 502 in Łódź, to which young people from the Centre for Visually Impaired Children were invited
2009 Practical Utopia – individual exhibition – Arsenal Gallery, Poznań
2010 Visual Concert Gallery 8, Poznań
2010 Vehicle, Machine, Device – individual exhibition – BWA, Gorzów Wlkp.
2011 Visual Concert – Nizio Gallery, Warsaw
2011 Akcja Traugutta – Visual Performance Instruments, Warsaw
2011 Freies Museum Berlin – visual concert
2012 Fluxus – CK Zamek, Poznań
2012 Nocny Szlak Kulturalny – visual concert, Gorzów Wlkp.
2013 Installation or Object? exhibition from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Krakow
2014 Genius Fluminis “Catamaran” sculpture presentation on the Warta River BWA Gorzów Wlkp.
2016 pozaPOZNANIEM – Arsenal Gallery, Poznań
2018 V4 exhibition, Budapest
2018 Sztuka w ruch – Bałtyk, Poznań
2019 Art Passage – Sopot
2019 SECTOR I visual concert – CK Teatr Sztuk, Jaworzno
2019 Screens – Piotrowicz Gallery, Poznan, Poland
2022 STALOWE EKRANY – Gal. SECTOR I , Jaworzno City Museum
