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Robert Kusmirowski - "Yes, I'm wsior"
Warsaw, Centre for Contemporary Art - Ujazdowski Castle, September 11 - October 31, 2004
languages: Polski  / English 
 

Robert Kusmirowski is one of Poland's most interesting and most active young artists.

" 'Yes, I'm wsior' - this is a very appropriate title for my installation, meaning that the subject of my work draws on a highly rural motif - the well - which I have extracted from a village where time has stopped and which purposely links into the concept of the cistern at the Centre for Contemporary Art at Ujazdowski Castle. The title can be read in one of two ways - as 'Yes, I'm a hillbilly (man of the country),' or in its phonetic embodiment as 'Yes, I'm sure.' Through the first interpretation, I declare that the topics of the country and country life are not foreign to me (given that I purposely use items related thereto in my installations), and through the second interpretation I confirm precisely how confident I am of all of my choices and utterances as an artist. All other meanings will be revealed to those who see the work." (Robert Kusmirowski)
Robert Kusmirowski is one of Poland's most interesting and most active young artists. He lives near the city of Lublin in southeastern Poland and in 2003 graduated from the Art Department of Marie Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin (degree in sculpture). While a student, he received an Erasmus-Socrates scholarship that allowed him to study for one year in Rennes, France. He has participated in a handful of international exhibitions ("Stockholm Fair 2002," "Junge Scene," "Secession 2003" in Vienna, and most recently an exhibition titled "Distances" at the Galerie Le Plateau in Paris) and in a number of shows in Poland, including NOVART.PL 2002 in Krakow, the III SUPERMARKET SZTUKI / 3rd ART SUPERMARKET, and an exhibition at the Galeria DAP (Gallery at the House of the Visual Artist) in Warsaw in 2002. Kusmirowski has also had a number of solo exhibitions (Galeria Biala / White Gallery in Lublin 2002; "Double," Laboratory Gallery of the CCA at Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2003; "Fontanna" / "Fountain," Gallery XXI, Warsaw, 2003). He was nominated for a "Polityka" weekly "Passport" award and in 2003 was named Poland's top emerging artist by the influential Internet-based art magazine "Raster."

His works have primarily consisted of "falsifications" of aspects and items of everyday life (copies of various documents, photos, objects both small and large that have included a railroad car and a bicycle). He has on occasion gone so far as to create replicas of entire spaces and events from another time (an example of the latter is the project "Paryz-Luksemburg-Lipsk" / "Paris-Luxembourg-Leipzig," 2003, which involved completing a trip along this route on an A. Wolberg bicycle dating the from 1920s).

Robert Kusmirowski is drawing the attention of observers of the art scene as a genius imitator, counterfeiter and manipulator of reality in space and time.

Exhibition opening: September 10, 2004, at 6 p.m.

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