Cyryl Polaczek (Light bulb, 2017), Bartek Górny (Vases, 2020), photography by Przemysław Wideł
Artists: Marta Antoniak, Tomek Baran, Andrzej Bednarczyk, Małgorzata Biłuńska, Pamela Bożek, Iwona Demko, Bartek Górny, Karolina Jabłońska, Karolina Jarzębak, Martyna Kielesińska, Emilia Kina, Piotr Korzeniowski, Marta Krześlak, Tomasz Kręcicki, Krzysztof Maniak, Michał Myszkowski, Monika Niwelińska, Kinga Nowak, Alicja Pakosz, Cyryl Polaczek, Filip Rybkowski, Zbigniew Sałaj, Michał Sroka, Dominik Stanisławski, Witold Stelmachniewicz, Łukasz Stokłosa, Radek Szlęzak, Michał Zawada, Konrad Żukowski
■ virtual walk-through: www.bit.ly/czasipiana
■ opening and curatorial tour: https://fb.watch/1IZnxaynlX/
■ exhibition guide: www.bit.ly/czasipiana-przewodnik
■ news:
This year’s Cracow Art Week KRAKERS (https://cracowartweek.pl/) and Copernicus Festival (https://copernicusfestival.com/) feature the Time and Foam exhibition, presented at the Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts and Promocyjna Gallery from 21 October 21 to 30 November this year. Michał Zawada, the exhibition’s curator, has invited 28 artists associated with Krakow’s Academy of Fine Arts, and the list of works was complemented by two pieces, loaned courtesy of the Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts (www.asp.krakow.pl/sztuka-nauka/muzeum-asp), which decided to share its collections.
The exhibition is devoted to the elusive and relative notion of time, the subjective perceptions of which are presented by means of artists’ works. According to the curator, “the exhibition has no ambition to get any closer to the fundamental laws governing space-time. It does not provide any answers to the most basic questions concerning the passage of time, nor does it try to illustrate the state of research carried out by physicists, philosophers, neuroscientists and historians. […] What it does, however, is build metaphors collected within the framework of a single showcase, which make up constellations that illuminate some issues, questions and confrontations for a brief moment, in the face of the elusiveness, relativity and inconsistency of the time in which we are all immersed.”
The concept of the exhibition was inspired by a musical piece by the late Gérard Grisey (1946–1998) – Le Temps et l’Écume [Time and Foam] (https://youtu.be/CVkt26DB_-U), in which the French spectralist refers to the hypothesis of a fluctuating quantum space-time foam, first proposed by John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008). To this day, Wheeler’s theory remains as neither proven nor disproved due to technical limitations; however, its metaphorical nature offers a strong and powerful stimulus for the reflections of contemporary artists.
The curator’s introduction, quotes from famous thinkers and authors’ comments to their works showcased at the exhibition can be read in the exhibition guide: