Cezary Bodzianowski
The Lonely White Sail
FSP ING 0255
The neglected Pomorska Street, regardless of the weather or season, is always muddy and full of puddles. Bodzianowski decides to "revive" the tin sailboat from the gate at number 48 with a cardboard sun attached to the top of its head. As the artist himself says - the work was created out of a longing for summer and sunshine.
Selected for our collection, Bodzianowski's video-recorded "events" tell the story of the artist's relationship with the city in which he lives. The backgrounds of the scenes are unremarkable places and anonymous, often dilapidated elements of infrastructure. For the artist, however, they become successive fragments of his personal, scattered portrait of Lodz.
Cezary Bodzianowski
b. 1966, Szczecin
Artist, performer, author of ephemeral art activities. He also creates Dadaist sculpture-objects. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Bodzianowski's actions take the form of delicate, almost imperceptible interventions into reality. The artist is their main character, who disrupts the daily routine with his ephemeral actions. The witnesses of Bodzianowski's absurd and poetic actions, which usually take place on city streets, in parks or at home, are usually ordinary passers-by. We can later watch these ephemeral actions recorded on video tape or photographed by the artist's wife Monika Chojnicka, who is often also their only eyewitness. The artist, lives and works in Lodz, a city that has become a peculiar setting for his actions.
b. 1966, Szczecin
Artist, performer, author of ephemeral art activities. He also creates Dadaist sculpture-objects. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. Bodzianowski's actions take the form of delicate, almost imperceptible interventions into reality. The artist is their main character, who disrupts the daily routine with his ephemeral actions. The witnesses of Bodzianowski's absurd and poetic actions, which usually take place on city streets, in parks or at home, are usually ordinary passers-by. We can later watch these ephemeral actions recorded on video tape or photographed by the artist's wife Monika Chojnicka, who is often also their only eyewitness. The artist, lives and works in Lodz, a city that has become a peculiar setting for his actions.