Wojciech Bąkowski, The Interval of Remembering, 2011, Schmela Haus. Photo. Achim Kukulies

The two members of the Penerstwo group present projects that bring together various elements of audio, video, animation and sculpture to create unique art projects vested with vivid social commentary

The exhibition marks the first show abroad for both Wojciech Bąkowski and Piotr Bosacki, who frequently cooperated during their time as informal members of the Penerstwo art group and graduates of the Poznań Academy of Fine Arts. These ties are exemplified in works that are closely linked, driven by a common generational drive for social commentary. These artists confront reality, which presents itself as having no purpose or plan, while maintaining a sense of existentialism and philosophical-poetic reflection.

The works of Wojciech Bąkowski (born in 1979) are rooted in literature and music. In addition to numerous works on paper, he makes films, interactive sound sculptures and installations and performances - haunting works that hover between life and hallucination. Piotr Bosacki (1977) also uses music in his works, along with other multimedia, created compositions and animated films, joining together rationality, banality and inconsistency.  

Bąkowski presents a room-size audio sculpture titled The Interval of Remembering (2011). Here the form of the installation and the source of the sound are subjected to a game in which the viewer/listener becomes an integral part of the whole, based on the form of a recumbent pyramid. His other work is an animated film, made with minimal resources, but full of suspense. The portrayal of images of windows symbolically take up the subject of social ties. Another three-layer video-sculpture also focuses on similar issues of proximity and remoteness, community and solitude. 

Bosacki debuts his own animated project, in fact a trilogy of animated films. Using the word and the image, arranging a monologue and lecture he revolves around both speculative and prosaic matters. No Sound is a comical, all the while philosophical, cartoon that is screened only after dark (after the Schmela Haus closes) and can be viewed from the street. 

Curator: Julian Heynen

It's Bearable runs between the 3rd of February 3rd - 10h of June 10th, 2012 at the Schmela Haus space of the Kunstsammlung NRW.  The exhibition is part of the Klopsztanga programme of Polish Culture organised by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Kunstsammlung NRW
Schmela Haus
Mutter-Ey-Strasse 3
40213 Düsseldorf

Source: www.kunstsammlung.de