Teresa Tyszkiewicz
ASERET
Opening: Thursday, 29.09.2022, 7 pm
29.09.22– 03.12.2022
Tuesday–Saturday, 12 noon–7 pm
During Warsaw Gallery Weekend
11 noon – 7 pm
The exhibition by the late artist offers a glimpse into her work from the 1980s, a key part of her oeuvre in which she gave expression to a woman’s experience of the world in an intuitive, extremely bold, and yet sensual way. Her emotional and intuitive art, based on psychophysical experience and often even ecstatic, was realised in the union of the body with the substantial realness of the surroundings and nature.
The exhibition by the late artist offers a glimpse into her work from the 1980s, a key part of her oeuvre in which she gave expression to a woman’s experience of the world in an intuitive, extremely bold, and yet sensual way. Her emotional and intuitive art, based on psychophysical experience and often even ecstatic, was realised in the union of the body with the substantial realness of the surroundings and nature.
From the Mouths (2) series, 1987, industrial paint, acrylic and oil on paper, 64.5 × 99 cm
The films, paintings, photographs, spatial works, and drawings created in this decade are linked by the way in which they are rooted in the world in the relationship between body and matter, despite the diversity of media and technology. The transgressive and emancipatory potential of art fuelled by material imagination, practices and rituals that emerged from seeing, movement and touch. The exhibition shows her work in an interweaving of her biography, artistic experiences, and cultural narratives with which she engaged in dialogue. Art that goes draws on very intimate experiences and at the same time alludes to archetypal meanings, having its origins in a radically subjective imagination that placed her actions outside contemporary artistic trends.
The exhibition is accompanied by screenings of the artist’s films from the 1980s and the promotion of a comprehensive publication presenting her work from the late 1970s until her death in 2020.
Teresa Tyszkiewicz (1953–2020) engaged in performance, photography, painting, drawing, created spatial objects and sculptures. She made her debut in the late 1970s and early 1980s as an experimental filmmaker. She made her first films and photographs together with Zdzisław Sosnowski. Her individual film productions from the early 1980s are now counted among the iconic works of feminist art. In her photographs and films, she mostly used the expression of her own body. At the end of the 1970s, she began to experiment with different materials in her paintings. She is known as the author of monumental paintings usually made with pins.
Teresa Tyszkiewicz, who lived in Paris since 1982, achieved successes and presented her works in exhibitions by well-known galleries and museums, was absent from the Polish art scene for many years. Her first major exhibition in Poland took place at Warsaw’s Zachęta in 1998. The strength of her art was brought back to the Polish public by a retrospective exhibition at the Łódź Muzeum Sztuki presented in 2020, opened a few months after the artist’s death. Her works are in the collections of many prestigious museums, including the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; Starak Family Foundation, Warsaw and the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź.
Image and Games (fragment), 1981
