Monday,
29 April
“Sounds of the Japanese Studio”
The series of 7 photographs presented as part of the cyclical project “Postój ze Sztuką” (“Stopover with Art”) are fragments of works and objects that can be seen in the exhibition “Sounds of The Pentagonal Garden” at the Jan Tarasin Art Gallery in Kalisz. The photographs of some of the objects were taken in the surroundings of the atelier in Aso (Japan), while others in the interiors of the studio in Poznań. The reference of the object themselves to sound is metaphorical and imaginative.
Description of the images on the posters:
1. Painting “Imagining a Pentagonal Garden” lying on the floor of the Japanese version of the Utopia Pavilion.
2. Fragment of Japanese paper covering a sliding door and a fragment of an element from the Utopia Pavilion near Poznan.
3. Fragment of an ‘unfinished’ painting from the “Mechanics of the Heaven” series.
4. Table top found in Konstantynowo near Poznań, with a trace made with sandpaper
5. Fragment of a painting entitled “Takibe 14.04.2023”.
6. Reflection of the Japanese version of the Utopia Pavilion construction in the glass covering the surface of the painting.
7. Collage made on found wooden elements. Japanese wood saw.
Mikołaj Poliński born 1977, Poznań. Graduated from the University of Arts in Poznań and studied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. A painter, who creates spatial arrangements built from drawings (paintings), objects and architectural elements, he sometimes intervenes in the matter of the place where he works, he is absorbed by the borders of visual arts and music.Teaches at the University of Arts in Poznań. Since 2003 he has been running “Galeria Naprzeciw” and has been involved in curatorial projects; “Galeria Aneks” at the Galeria Miejska Arsenał (“Arsenal” Municipal Gallery) in Poznań, Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin and Contemporary Art Museum Ise in Japan. Lives and works in Poznań and Berlin.
He has presented works at exhibitions:
Resonating Views Contemporary Art Museum Ise JP 2023
Elusiveness of Shadow +1art” Osaka JP 2023
Reflection of Blue Grey Galeria Szewska Poznań PL 2023
Critical Mass Galeria Działań Warsaw PL 2022
Osaka Kansai International Art Festival JP 2022
Listening by Eye Muzeum Susch CH 2020
Petit Galeria Sztuki im. Jana Tarasina Kalisz PL 2020
Door Opened for Moonlight “+1art” Osaka JP 2019
19 Shades of Grey Galeria Muzalewska, Poznań PL 2019
Pause (prelud) Haus der Kunst, München D 2018
Five Movements “+1art” Osaka JP 2018
Alternative Views Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin D 2015
Utopia Pavilion – Ise Contemporary Art Museum Ise JP 2015
Net Fundacja Profile, Warsaw PL 2014
Blueshift Galeria Miejska “Arsenał”, Poznań PL 2013
Uncorrupted eye MOCAK Kraków 2013 oraz Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw PL 2012
Noises of Utopia with Misa Shimomura, Emerson Gallery, Berlin D 2012
On the Other Side Zenshi, Tokyo JP 2009
Blue Fugue with M. Shimomura, Galeria Oko/Ucho, Poznań PL 2008
Portrait Session Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima JP 2007
From On Kawara to Ryan Gander Daiwa Press Viewing Room, Hiroshima JP 2006
One day in Paradise Zenshi Tokyo JP 2006
Utopia Pavilion Konstantynowo near Poznan PL 2004, 2005
Deep Black Cross, Deep Red Cross Galeria Akumulatory 2 (Inner-Spaces) Poznań PL 2002
Polyphonic Order Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznań PL 2001