Opening: Friday, September 21, 2018, 5 – 9 pm
The exhibition is on view through November 3, 2018, Tuesday – Saturday, 12 noon – 7 pm
Gallery opening hours during Warsaw Gallery Weekend 2018:
Saturday – Sunday, September 22-23, 2018, 12 noon – 7 pm
The artist behind these visually spectacular pictures and composition describes her artistic practice as guided by emotions. She incessantly performs herself on canvas, in sculpture, and through drawings, photographs and film. Most of the monumental pictures are made with metal pins, the artist’s material of choice since the late 1970s. Tyszkiewicz inserts hundreds of thousands of pins into the surface of paper, canvas, sheet metal and photographs, combining methodical repetitiveness with the expressive gesture of piercing various forms of matter. The vast surfaces covered with rhythmically glistening pins are an ongoing record of her emotions. The artist brings up her own, often very intimate, experiences in her films, as well, performing improvised pieces-to-camera that document subjective experiences and evade the grasp of logical reason.
The fundamental medium of expression in her films and photographs is the her body itself. She employs a repertoire of erotic and fetishistic references that emancipate female sexuality. Using a range of objects and matter, she stages situations in which the sensual borders on the masochistic.
Teresa Tyszkiewicz (born 1953). She studied at the Warsaw University of Technology (diploma in 1978). Author of short films, photographs, three-dimensional objects, sculptures, performances, paintings, drawings. Well known for her pin-paintings, she uses metal pins in her works for almost 40 years.
Her works were presented in solo and group exhibitions at venues such as:
De Appel Gallery, Amsterdam (1980); Espai del Centre de Documentacio d’Art Actual, Barcelona; Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart (1981); XII Biennale de Paris, Paris (1982); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (1982); Galerie J. Donguy, Paris (1982); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1982) Galeria Diferença, Lisbon (1982); Grand Palais, Paris (1982, 1985, 1988, 1990; 1992); Festival International d’Art Performance, Lyon (1983); Museum Mӧnchengladbach, Mӧnchengladbach (1984); Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (1985); Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris (1985); Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Toulouse (1987); Espace Bateau-Lavoir, Paris (1986, 1987); Galerie Georges Lavrov, Paris (1989); Contemporary Art Gallery, Zachęta, Warsaw (1991, 1996, 1998); Musée Duhamel, Mantes-la-Jolie (1992); Galerie Ileana Bouboulis, Paris (1992, 1998); Galleria d’Arte Moderna Alba, Verona (1993); Galerie IBM, Orléans (1993); National Museum, Warsaw (1994); Galerie Hogbergsgat, Stockholm (1995); Galerie Art Contemporain, Bayonne (1998); Kiron Galerie, Paris (2004); Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium, London (2004); Sculpture Center, New York (2004); Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk (2004); Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2006); Mazovian Center for Contemporary Art Elektrownia, Radom (2008); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris (2017); Piekary Gallery, Poznań (2018).
