Meal for the Poor and the Rich, 1993
The action carried out as part of the 4th Construction in a process organized in Łódź under the slogan My home is your home. In the Wschodnia Gallery, in one of the rooms, several dozen red candles were attached horizontally to the walls. When the lit candles lit the room with flames, the artist began serving red borscht to the audience. By sharing his meal with the audience, he proposed expanding the community of artists and non-artists. The action repeated several times in different places can be seen as symbolic for the artist’s attitude and his understanding of the social function of art.
7 Paths of Roses, 1995
Work carried out in the Negev desert in Israel as part of 5 Construction inProcess. In the so-called Makhtesh Ramon Crater is a kind of big sand painting, a circle outlined with yellow sand and inside seven paths made of red volcanic sand. Despite the gigantic size, the work involving several dozen people was of a temporary nature. But as the artist emphasized, the most important thing was the way and process of its creation as the essence of cooperation, being together and communal action.
Chinese Rose Garden, 1977
Installation realized at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw from several thousand plastic, artificial roses produced in China. The artist combined an artificial garden with swaying, air-moving plastic flowers, as in several other versions of this work, the artist combined with the meditative dimension of art.
Modern Dreamtime, 1998
Installation realized at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw from several thousand plastic, artificial roses produced in China. The artist combined an artificial garden with swaying, air-moving plastic flowers, as in several other versions of this work, the artist combined with the meditative dimension of art.
Child’s Territory, 1997
Installation realized at the Haifa Museum of Art in Israel. The artist referred to children’s games, inserting small paper flags into conical sand forms that children build in sandboxes. In a perverse way, he referred to the modeling of memory, behavior, and the naturalization of the wars we play from childhood.
