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Dawid Radziszewski Gallery
portfolio 2015
Łukasz Jastrubczak
Jastrubczak
Łukasz
Łukasz Jastrubczak
b. 1984
2004 - 2006 — Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław
2006 - 2009 — Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice
bio + exhibitons
Born in 1984 in Zielona Góra, Poland. In 2009 he graduated with honors from the Academy of Fine
Arts in Katowice. He uses various media such as: video, installation, drawing, object, concert, intervention, journey, ephemerical action. His art can be described as lyrical post-conceptualism.
Together with Krzysztof Kaczmarek co-creates an artistic group “Krzysztofjastrubczakłukaszkaczmarek”.
Together with Sebastian Cichocki he is the author of the book and series of events “Mirage”. He
plays the synthesizer in the band “Boring Drug”. With Małgorzata Mazur he coordinates the activities of the “Centre”. In 2013 he received “Spojrzenia (Views) - Deutsche Bank Foundation Award” for
the most interesting, young polish artist in the past two years. He teaches on Art Academy in Szczecin.
Lives in Szczecin, Poland.
solo exhibitions
2015
• The Crack, sculpture in urban space, Wybrzeże Gdyńskie 2, Warsaw, PL
• Mirage, In Order Of Appearance, Cricoteka, screening, Kraków, PL
2014
• All Works on Letter S, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Poznań, PL
2013
• Ghost, Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw, PL
2012
• Still Life (with Krzysztof Kaczmarek), Bank Peakao Project Room, CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, PL
• Mirage, Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, PL
• Lucciola, Pies Gallery, Poznań, PL
2011
• Mirage, Galeria Sabot, Cluj-Napoca, RO
2010
• Every Piece With A Circle, Galeria ZPAF i Ska, Kraków, PL
• Distant Drum, Art in General, New York, US
• Tropiki, Pies Gallery, Poznań, PL
• NTSC, BWA, Zielona Góra, PL
2009
• 2013, CCA Kronika, Bytom, PL
• White Video, ŻAK|BRANICKA, Berlin, DE
2008
• Film Noir, CCA Kronika, Bytom, PL
2007
• 01, CCA Kronika, Bytom, PL
Łukasz Jastrubczak
selected group exhibitions
selected bibliography
2015
• You’vw fallen in love with someone that doesn’t exist. Teatre art, play exhibition,
National Old Teatre, Kraków, PL
• Pure Formality, Gallery Labirynt, Lublin, PL
• State of Life: Polish Contemporary Art within a Global Circumstance,
National Art Museum of China, Pekin, CN
• Procedures for the Head - Polish Art Today, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava, SK
books
• Łukasz Jastrubczak, Sebastian Cichocki, “Mirage”, pub. Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej Bunkier
Sztuki, Kraków 2012
2014
• The Moderna Exhibition - Society Acts, Moderna Museet Malmö, SE
• Vanishing Point, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, CH
• Cold, Warm and Nonhuman, BWA Sokół, Nowy Sącz, PL
• Echoes, Photo Month in Kraków 2014, Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, PL
• Doniosłość kurzu, Botanical Garden Museum, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL
• Przaja moimu Hajmatowi , CCA Kronika, Bytom, PL
• As you can see – Polish Art Today, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, PL
bio + exhibitons
2013
• Views 2013 - Deutsche Bank Foundation Award, Zachęta, Warsaw, PL
• Impossibility vs. Self-Censorship, Matadero Madrid, SP
• Way Back Home, Klasztor Sióstr Koletek, Kraków, PL
• Six-Line Staff, Chopin Museum, Warsaw, PL
• Baby Teeth, BWA, Katowice, PL
2012
• Broken Movie, BWA Awangarda, Wrocław, PL
• New Performance Festival, Turku, FI
• Rękawiczki Jeffa Koons’a, CSW Kronika, Bytom, PL
• Es ist Zeit für Turnschuhe, Künstlerhaus, Dortmund, DE
2011
• Tarnów. 1000 Years of Modernity, BWA, Tarnów, PL
• Nie Na Miejscu, CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, PL
• Polish Contemporary Art from the Collection of the National Museum in Kraków
(with Krzysztof Kaczmarek), Ministerstwo Kultury, Warsaw, PL
2010
• Body in the Library (with Krzysztof Kaczmarek), BWA Design, Wrocław, PL
• UM Festival, Uckermarck, DE
• No Sleep!, BWA, Zielona Góra, PL
• The Dump - Recykling Myśli, CCA Łaźnia, Gdańsk, PL
2009
• Sekcja Sztuki Nowoczesnej – Polish Alphabet, BWA Tarnów, PL
• Sport for non-athletic, ZPAF i Ska, Kraków, PL
• Znikanie nad Wisłą, Fundacja Bęc Zmiana, Warsaw, PL
• Under the Bridge, CCA Łaźnia, Liverpool, UK
• Hell of Things, CCA Kronika, Bytom, PL
2008
• Ain’t No Sorry, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw,PL
• Marian Szpakowski - kontynuacja, Muzeum Ziemii Lubuskiej, Zielona Góra, PL
• Establishment (As a Source of Suffering), CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, PL
• Something Must Break, OFF Festiwal, Mysłowice, PL
• We Go Far Beyond, Starter Gallery, Poznań, PL
• Helsinki by Night, TaiK Gallery, Berlin, DE
• Manual CC, CCA Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, PL
2007
• Lighthouse Ankara, central station, Ankara, TR
• Manual CC, CCA Kronika, Bytom, PL
• Umpolen, Museums Quartier, Vienna, AT
catalogues of exhibitions
• Mleczne zęby, editor Marta Lisok, pub. BWA Katowice, Katowice 2013
• Tarnów. 1000 Years of Modernity, editor Dawid Radziszewski, pub. BWA Tarnów, Tarnów 2012
• Es ist Zeit für Turnschuhe! / It’s time for sneakers!, pub. Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund
2012
• Polska sztuka współczesna w kolekcji Muzeum Narodowego w Krakowie, editor Dominik
Kuryłek, pub. Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Kraków 2011
• Znikanie nad Wisłą, pub. Fundacja Bęc Zmiana, Warszawa 2009
• Sekcja sztuki nowoczesnej “Alfabet Polski”, editor Ewa Łączyńska-Widz, pub. BWA Tarnów 2009
• Format P, Piekło rzeczy, editors Sebastian Cichocki, Izabela Jasiñska, Bogna Świątkowska, pub.
Fundacja Bęc Zmiana, Warszawa 2009
• Establishment (jako Źródło cierpieñ), editors Marcin Krasny, Stach Szabłowski, pub. CSW
Zamek Ujazdowski, Warszawa 2008
• Nerwowa drzemka - o poszerzaniu pola w projektowaniu, editors Sebastian Cichocki, Bogna
Świątkowska, pub. Fundacja Bęc Zmiana, Warszawa 2010
• We go far beyond, editor Honza Zamojski, pub. Honza Zamojski, Poznań 2008
• Manual CC, pub. CSW Kronika, Bytom 2008
• Manual, pub. Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków 2008
talks
• O czym marzy Łukasz Jastrubczak?, talk with Joanna Szumacher, www. miejmiejsce.com,
30.11.2014, <http://miejmiejsce.com/sztuka/o-czym-marzy-lukasz-jastrubczak/>
• “Living at the movies”, talk with Bean Gilsdorf, www.dailyserving.com, 22 .03.2012, <http://
dailyserving.com/2012/03/living-at-the-movies-interview-with-lukasz-jastrubczak/>
• Wątpie nieustannie, Adam Andrzej Fuss, “Arteon” 2009, no. 3 (107), p. 24
• Następuje zniknięcie, Bogna Świątkowska, “Notes na 6 tygodni” 2008, no. 43, p. 86
• Łukasz Jastrubczak, Stach Ruksza, catalogue of the exhibition “Establishment (As a Source of
Suffering)
• Łukasz Jastrubczak, (exhibition catalogue), talk with Honza Zamojski, “We go far beyond”,
pub. Honza Zamojski, Poznañ 2008
show review and texts
• Marta Kudelska, Konceptualne Miraże, Obieg.pl, 27.04.2012 <http://obieg.pl/rozmowy/24837>
• Paulina Włodarczyk, Poszukiwacze zaginionej realności. Miraż Łukasza Jastrubczaka w Bunkrze
Sztuki, www.poland-art.pl, 05.2012, <http://www.poland-art.com/index.php/recenzje/710-paulina-wlodarczyk/6111-poszukiwacze-zaginionej-realnosci-miraz-lukasza-jastrubczaka-w-bunkrze-sztuki>
• Marta Lisok, Łukasz Jastrubczak w Bunkrze Sztuki, www.dwutygodnik.com, 05.2012, <http://
www.dwutygodnik.com/artykul/3387-lukasz-jastrubczak-w-bunkrze-sztuki.html>
• Marta Lisok, Ukryty w tekturowych pudełkach, “Artpapier” 2008, nr 24 (120), 15.12.2008,
<http://artpapier.com/index.php?page=artykul&wydanie=73&artykul=1706&kat=2>
Łukasz Jastrubczak
selected works
portfolio
Movement number 4
Łukasz Jastrubczak
photographic documentation
digital print
117 x 80cm
2011
Sculpture “Movement No. 4” is made of a black rod 183
cm long. The shape of the sculpture reflects the route
of the main character of the film “Vertigo”, while driving
a car through the streets of San Francisco. The sculpture
was left in the desert in the south-western United States.
Frames
Łukasz Jastrubczak
slides projection
109 slides
2011
Series of 109 slides entitled “Frames” is a reconstruction
of selected frames from scenes of the Alfred Hitchcock’s
film “Vertigo”. Both locations and cropping are consistent
with the original. What differs the slides from the film
frames is the absence of actors. “Frames” series is also
a photographic report of Łukasz’s touristic trip in San
Francisco. Slides are presented in a carousel projector whose
design replicates the vortex theme from “Vertigo”
Sleeping Cowboy
Łukasz Jastrubczak
sculpture
concrete, black pigment
183 x 40 x 30 cm
2011
In May 2011 the sculpture depicting a sleeping cowboy
was made with black plastecine. A month later, it was laid
down in a wooden crate and sent to the USA by ship.
On July 4 it was delivered to New York. It was a bit damaged. On July 9 it was transported to the airport and sent
back to Poland. This time, it shrunk while beating against
the walls of the crate during the flight.
The purposely deformed plasticine model was then cast
in concrete. Permanently the cowboy sleeps on a railway
station in Tarnów- Mościce.
Need for Speed
Łukasz Jastrubczak
video
HD Blu-ray
48’21’’
2012
ed. 3/3 + AP
2 500 € excl. vat
Need for Speed is
​​ a documentation of Łukasz’s travel
through cinematic landscapes of south-western part
of the United States. Filmed from the windshield,
it consists of hypnotic shots of the road, the shape
of which, with it’s converging long lines, suggests a triangle.
Mirage (The film)
Łukasz Jastrubczak
90 minutes
HD
written by Sebastian Cichocki
camera by Małgorzata Mazur
2014-2015
Mirage (The Film) is an adaptation of a book, created
by Sebastian Cichocki and Łukasz Jastrubczak in 2012.
Two years after the book was published, a journey
to United States was realized, in order to investigate material gathered, while working on a book (that mostly involves
fictious American conceptual art practices). On the road
across the country, 35 people were asked to read parts
of the text taken from the book. Accidentaly acquainted
persons became actors of the film, performing in a real
context of american landscape.
Mirage (The Book)
Łukasz Jastrubczak
13 x 19 cm
120 pages
texts : Sebastian Cichocki
photographs : Łukasz Jastrubczak i Małgorzata Mazur
graphic design : Magdalena Frankowska / Artur Frankowski / Fontarte
published by : Bunkier Sztuki in Kraków
2012
http://mirazmirazmiraz.tumblr.com
The material for this publication was collected between
December 2011 and February 2012. It consists of email
correspondence between Łukasz Jastrubczak and Sebastian
Cichocki, in the form of a game or “duel” of image and
text. Jastrubczak’s photographs arose during the artist’s
journey around the United States, and Cichocki’s textual
responses (treated as “curatorial guides and references”)
were written in Poland and based, in part, on earlier essays
by Robert Smithson. In response to photographs sent
by email, texts arose that were guides for the taking
of subsequent photos, and so on. The authors had 24 hours
to respond.
In Search of Miraculous
Łukasz Jastrubczak
16 mm
4’06’’
2013
“In Search of Miraculous” is a film made in Kraków
on the banks of the Vistula River. The slow motion camera
captures typical phenomenon of this tourist town: a spirit,
a walking mulch, a knight or the Wawel Dragon. The film was
shown during the final of the most important Polish art competition - Deutsche Bank “Views” which Łukasz won in 2013.
Perspective of Failure
Łukasz Jastrubczak
16 mm
4’28’’
2013
“Perspective of Failure” is a film that was made specially
for the Deutsche Bank “Views” contest and was the second film
among those that were shown at the exhibition. It is a hypnotic
vision, full of mysterious symbols, of a conceptual artist being
killed in Florence - the capital of the Italian Renaissance.
“Perspective of Failure” entwines the most important themes
of Jastrubczak’s work: investigations, travel, art history,
geometry and perception disorders. The film was realized
in two historic sites: near the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte
(known from the legend of St. Menas, who after his martyrdom
wandered with his own severed head. It also appeared
in the film “Obsession” by Brian de Palma in 1976, inspired
by Hitchcock’s “Vertigo”) and the Palace Vecchio (where
Leonardo da Vinci’s failed frescoes were find underneath
the layers of paint).
Jug
Łukasz Jastrubczak
installation
found object, fishing line, white cube
60 x 30 x 30 cm
2013
Ghost
Łukasz Jastrubczak
photography
2013
Ghost
Łukasz Jastrubczak
photography
2012
Łukasz appeared dressed as a Ghost on a peak of
a mountain that almost resembled a “Paramount Pictures”
mountain. Couple of weeks later he appeared in the same
costume on Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty”.
Walking on Spiral Jetty
Łukasz Jastrubczak
vinyl record
8 inches
edition : 22
2015
The work is available at the Altanova record label.
http://altanovapress.com
Audio recording made without windshield, while walking
to the center of Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” (Side A)
and from the center to the beginning (Side B).
Side A begins on the outer part of the record, while Side B
begins on the centre of the record.
Mountain (aerial perspective)
Łukasz Jastrubczak
sculpture
fabric, hidden objects
260 x 100 x 80 cm
2011
Operating the Sun
Łukasz Jastrubczak
performance in Kraków-Nowa Huta
2014
Łukasz (dressed as a ghost of conceptual artist) was playing
on a recorder in the centre of Nowa Huta in Kraków.
There was an orange circle attached to his foot; it floated
in the sky, maintained by helium filled balloons.
Pitch of the tone played on the recorder was depended
on the height of the floating circle. If the circle was close
to the ground, the pitch was low, if the circle stretched
the string to the maximum, the pitch was at its highest.
Clash
Łukasz Jastrubczak
slide
2012
Slide from the projector shows a modified frame from
Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window”. Over time, the slide
is overexposed as a result of the projector bulb operation.
Telescope
Łukasz Jastrubczak
sculpture
black paper, nails, plastic tube, black paint on the wall
various dimensions
2011
The black circle painted on the wall exactly coincides with
the area visible through a telescope made of cardboard.
Eclipse
Łukasz Jastrubczak
documentation of an action
c-print
120 x 100 cm
2009
This work was created while Łukasz visited Liverpool.
With a two-meter diameter circle attached to hellium
balloons he made several fake solar eclipses.
The End
Łukasz Jastrubczak
documentation of an action
c-print
60 x 40 cm
2008
Imitating the credits and their movement Łukasz, during
an action in Mysłowice, released a caption “The End” into
the sky. Letters made of cardboard attached to the balloons
with hellium, soared high and disappeared.
In order of appearance
Łukasz Jastrubczak
photographic documentation of an action
60 x 40 cm
2008
Golden perspective
Łukasz Jastrubczak
relief
cardboard, spray
70 x 70 cm
2013
On a cardboard painted with golden spray Łukasz set
a classical perspective. Using a scalpel he formed the lines
converging towards the center. In an ideal world the half
lines would aim to the infinity never crossing eachother.
In fact, the lines intersect and form a textural structure
in the center.
Hologram
Łukasz Jastrubczak
installation
glass, golden spray, HD projection
100 x 100 cm
2013
The work refers to Joseph Kosuth’s “Square Clear Glass
Leaning” from 1965. Jastrubczak evokes the relationship
between the art of the 60s (particularly that which postulated to move away from the materiality of artworks)
and the resignation from the gold standard by the American government.
Cubist Composition with Jug
Łukasz Jastrubczak
sculpture
cardboard, spray, wood, glue
140 x 60 x 50 cm
2011
Skull
Łukasz Jastrubczak
photography
diasec
45 x 31,5 cm
2011
Songs About Triangles
Łukasz Jastrubczak
installation
DVD, tv sets in different dimensions
2’56’’
3’21’’
4’33’’
4’58’’
5’36’’
9’58’’
6’04’’ 1’24’’
3’58’’
2’47’’
2008 - ?
All Songs About Triangles, made by Łukasz, are presented
as a video installation. The sound of each composition
overlaps. Each new song is longer than the previous one,
so all compositions, when looped, never repeat the same
configuration of sounds.
The Third Song About Triangles
Łukasz Jastrubczak
installation
DVD, speakers, projector attached to the ceiling by a chain, engine
4’33’’, loop
2011
Łukasz dressed in cardboard triangles, performs a composition with flute and synthesizer. Video projector is attached
to an engine that rotates it through 360 degrees. The image
from the “Third song about Triangles” travels around
the walls of the room.
Animation
Łukasz Jastrubczak
installation
black trampoline, 9 photographs (various dimentions), adhesive tape
2010
Cinema inherently locks the viewer, as it gives him
the illusion of movement. “Animation” is a work that
reverses the generally accepted truth. In order to watch
a short animation we have to jump on the trampoline.
Individual frames of the film are glued to the wall. Łukasz
used the most popular image formats (passport, visa,
diploma, 13x9, 15x10, 18x13, 21x15, 20x30, 38x25).
Along with a reduction in size the figure recedes away,
and we ourselves become the screen for the projection
of our own.
Loop
Łukasz Jastrubczak
photgraphic documentation of an action
two photographs, a description
2 x (30 x 40.3 cm)
2010
The figure dressed in black took a route along a quarter
of New York streets. At the same time, a black car from
1966 circulated a route that was a mirror image of the first
one. Both elements met every three minutes in the same
exact location. This recurrent pattern took place about 20
times, exerting on the random viewers a sense of deja vu.
Frame
Łukasz Jastrubczak
object
wooden frame, digital print
56 x 70 cm
2011
photo from ebay auction
Łukasz bought on ebay a mysterious picture in a frame.
When he received the package, it turned out that what
Łukasz considered to be a framed photograph was in fact
legs from the table on which the seller rested a blank frame
with passe partout. There was no photography. To fix this
unpleasant surprise (expectations vs. reality) Jastrubczak
completed an empty frame with what was supposed
to be this mysterious photograph (cropping them from
the picture from ebay).
White Balance
Łukasz Jastrubczak
mural (700 x 300 cm)
and two photographs (20 x 15 cm)
2014
On the wall in Bunkier Sztuki gallery Łukasz painted
a gradient passing from white to blue.Then he took a picture by setting the white balance on a white and blue wall.
Then he taped the resulting photographs to the wall.
Time Machine
Łukasz Jastrubczak
installation
70 x 20 x 20 cm
2014
The machine randomly selects a date between January 4,
1966 (this date is trubute to On Kawara) and December
31, 2999. When the button is pressed, the machine will
take you to a time somewhere within this interval.
Distant Drum
Łukasz Jastrubczak
video
DVD
3’05’’
2009
The video “Distant Drum” shows the psychokinetic
phenomena of controlling a teaspoon and a fork. Łukasz
sitting a few meters away from the cutlery, using the intense
power of thought, tries to play a drum track.
Soundtrack
Łukasz Jastrubczak
video
DVD
8’34’’
2009
When Łukasz’s girlfriend Gosia is sleeping Łukasz imitates
the sounds of rushing wind, foot steps and the rain.
Those sounds get into her subconsciousness.
Rapid Vienna vs. Rapid Vienna
Łukasz Jastrubczak
video
DVD
6’19’’
2008
Łukasz filmed a match of Rapid Vienna players playing
against themselves. It was all controlled by a computer.
In the first two versions of the video the score was 1-0.
In the third, ended with a draw, the computer frozed
the camera for several seconds on the goalkeeper waiting
alone for the attack. The work was made at a time Łukasz
was particularly interested in the issue of psychoanalysis.
No coincidence that he chose a football team from the city
of Sigmund Freud.
Sleepwalk
Łukasz Jastrubczak
installation
slide projector (carousel), 72 slides
2008
Artists description: “I was walking in a completely dark
park, not seeing anything. I held the camera in one hand,
which with the help of a flash illuminated the way.
When I really didn’t know where to go and I felt fear,
I pushed the camera shutter. The resulting 72 slides form
“Sleepwalk” cycle, which is then presented as an installation. Slides are arranged on the projector (carousel) alternating with an empty frame. The projector changes
the slides at high speed so that images of the forest are not
clear, and the light from the empty frames leaves an alarming afterimage. The rhythmic sound of the changing slides
sounds like a music to a thriller.”
666
Łukasz Jastrubczak
book
2008
The book consists of 180 pages no “666” from many
different books.
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