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Bodzianowski CezaryA painter by training, from 1988 to 1990 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, and afterward from 1990 to 1994 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. For years he supported himself, as he himself claims, thanks to his money he won in the lottery. He is known as a creator of surrealistic situations and prudent, discrete acts to interject his character into accepted reality. He is a stager of events that disrupt the rhythm of everyday routines of life with elements of the absurd, irony and humour. He arranges short scenes and stories, of which he himself is the main character. He calls what he does a “personal theatre of events”. The unsuspecting audiences and actors in this theatre, usually bystanders are often unconscious of their roles. Bodzianowski usually arranges his scenes outside of traditional gallery spaces, and willingly appears on city streets, in shops, and in parks, not always informing the public about his plans, because, as he says: “a certain anonymity is my favourite part of my works”. His unpredictable creations have much in common with the Dada tradition. He is interested in social behaviours, such as tolerance, openness, and spontaneity. He created his own artistic public image: he is known as a gentleman dressed in a trench coat with an old-fashioned moustache. In 2001 he received the Pegaz award for “artistic works that reveal the poetic in our prosaic reality”, and in 2003 he was nominated for Deutsche Bank Culture Foundation in the Spojrzenia competition. In 2004 he received the Paszport Polityki award, granted for “imagination and consistent work; for artwork that is cheerful, selfless, and that snaps us out of our daily routine”. He has taken part in many exhibitions and group projects in Poland and abroad, including: Spojrzenia [Looks] (2003) and Polish Painting of the 21st Century (2006) at Warsaw’s Zachęta Gallery, Schmerz at Tanz Quartier in Vienna (2005), Koniec egzotycznej podróży [The End of an Exotic Journey] at the Foksal Foundation Gallery (2006), The World as A Stage at London’s Tate Modern (2007), Il teatro della vita at the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea w Trento (2007) and the 5th Biennale in Berlin (2008). He has also been in nearly a thousand individual appearances such as: Atrament sympatyczny [Invisible Ink], the Museum of Art in Łódź (2001); Fishing Project, Kunstlerhausbetanien, Berlin (2002); Zawsze stałem w cieniu kina [I Have Always Stood in the Shadows of the Cinema] and Ukryte w słońcu [Hidden in the Sun], Cieszyn (2003); Four Times Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2003); Charlestone, Broadway 1602, New York (2005); Latem będzie zielono [In the Summer it will be Green], Museum of Art, Łódź (2007); Sababa, Centre for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2009). Cezary Bodzianowski lives and works in Łódź. |
BunkerCezary Bodzianowski’s artistic action, Bunker, was a performance relating to the situation known from the golf course. The title Bunker is a term in golf specifying a dangerous obstacle, depression in a territory filled with sand. Bodzianowski, dressed in a golf outfit, tried – as in the game to golf – overcome the obstacle in his way, except that it was not a golf Bunker, but the Krakow Art Bunker – the city's Contemporary Art Gallery.   Project curator: Marek Goździewski |
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