EXHIBITION

Oskar Dawicki: Two Pieces Too Little

Galeria Arsenał, Podlaskie, Bialystok, 11/15/2013 - 12/28/2013

ABOUT

Oskar Dawicki’s exhibition titled “Two Pieces Too Little” presented in the Arsenal Gallery in Białystok is the third presentation (after Art Stations gallery in Stary Browar, Poznań http://www.artstationsfoundation5050.com/en/event/2013_01oskarand Raster Gallery in Warsaw http://en.rastergallery.com/wystawy/oskar-dawickio-jedna-prace-za-malo/) related to Performer, a feature film which has not yet had its première. It is, similarly to the biographical novel Half empty, a part of Dawicki's artistic persona.

In the film Dawicki plays himself: an artist, performer, creator of a total creation, where art and life merge into one. The fleeting success and its ridiculousness, the exhausting premonition of failure, the dead body hidden under the red carpet, the faded sham – all this form a message of the artist's condition conveyed by Dawicki, who becomes the court jester performing a grand patriotic gesture.

He analyses his assets and weaknesses with a mocking sense of humour bordering on the absurd. He makes ironic comments on the embarrassment while at the same time being dangerously close to it. Like in a self-fulfilling prophecy, the failure seems to be inevitable. In the video advertising the “One Piece Too Little” in the Raster Gallery Dawicki suggested that the audience stayed at home. Why come to the gallery, when “the” work is not there? It seems that it can't get any worse... But it surely can, as the optimists say.

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