Cezary bodzianowski biography sample

  • A situation artist and creator of modest performances of absurdist stories and scenes in which he is the main protagonist.
  • Cezary Bodzianowski, an artist who has worked primarily in performance for more than two decades.
  • The works of Cezary Bodzianowski are even more exceptional as the Polish artist's “dematerialized works” (Lucy R. Lippard) and intervention-like performances.

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    We are proud to announce a group exhibition by Swiss-born, Zurich-based, Ursula Hodel; Polish-born, Lodz-based, Cezary Bodzianowski; Hungarian-born, Vienna-based, Eva Beresin and American-born, Basel-based, Cassidy Toner.

     

    All of the artists invited to this exhibition blur the lines between reality and unreality. Never fully embracing either, but instead playfully straddling the borders. Most often they coat their work in a humorous dollop of sugar, to help viewers swallow it, before tasting its sorrowful undertones.

     

    This exhibition is centred around the absurdity of existence. How human nature relentlessly seeks an answer to the meaning of life, even as they are met with silence from the universe. How does one go on without embracing the cosmic joke they must be part of?

     

    The writer Lauren Berlant recalls, “Whenever I tell someone I’m writing a book on humorlessness, they always laugh. Because humorlessness is so unbearable... A liberal model of humor and humorlessness would suggest that you should always try to cure humorlessness with humor, because humor is what keeps things warm between people and it makes it possible to move together in the social.”

     

    All of the works on view draw attention to the roles we are inhabiting.

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    Cezary Bodzianowski

    In his 2010 essay ‘O Lucky Man, art critic Jan Verwoert describes these studiedly deadpan performances as ‘characterised by a certain conspicuous inconspicuousness’, bringing to mind the era of silent comedy with their permanently out of place everyman hero. These actions result in photographs or short videos, mostly taken by his wife and artistic collaborator Monika Chojnicka.

    At the invitation of Spike Island, Bodzianowski and Chojnicka undertook a short residency during October 2011, responding to the sites and spaces of Bristol, including Spike Island’s own history as a former tea packing factory.

    Cezary Bodzianowski

    Cezary Bodzianowski is a situation artist and creator of modest performances of absurdist stories and scenes in which he figures as the main protagonist. Born in 1968, he lives and works in Łódź.