— too bold, too big, to far: Unrealized artworks become visible. Artists from all over connect.
While mobility is restricted, borders and distances are clearly perceptible and existential uncertainties
are omnipresent, more artistic works than ever remain in the state of planning. Whether it fails due to
lack of time, space or money or accompanies your artistic work for years as bold dream — we are looking
for your projects, which have not (yet) made it beyond their state as an idea, concept, draft or prototype.
With this exhibition we want to open up a space and visibility in terms of concepts, sketches, drafts, plans
and photographs. These papers will be presented at the art space BLECH. in Halle, Germany.
At the same time, despite current challenges and immobility, this format allows to present
and bring international artists together. Since many things cannot take place on location and in person,
there will be an online programm additional to the exhibtion. For an exchange and encounters, the
participating artists and their work will be presented and discussed on a digital platform.
— too bold, too big, to far: Unrealized artworks become visible. Artists from all over connect.
While mobility is restricted, borders and distances are clearly perceptible and existential uncertainties
are omnipresent, more artistic works than ever remain in the state of planning. Whether it fails due to
lack of time, space or money or accompanies your artistic work for years as bold dream — we are looking
for your projects, which have not (yet) made it beyond their state as an idea, concept, draft or prototype.
With this exhibition we want to open up a space and visibility in terms of concepts, sketches, drafts, plans
and photographs. These papers will be presented at the art space BLECH. in Halle, Germany.
At the same time, despite current challenges and immobility, this format allows to present
and bring international artists together. Since many things cannot take place on location and in person,
there will be an online programm additional to the exhibtion. For an exchange and encounters, the
participating artists and their work will be presented and discussed on a digital platform.
Bohdan Pylypushko
ABOUT
Ukraine/Poland. 1990. Visual artist in the field of contemporary graphics. Skilled in traditional and experimental printmaking, practically curious about the eclectic perspectives of photography. In artistic and scientific practices explore the subjects of memory, control and psychology of visual perception.
Education: 2013, MA (Fine Arts); 2018, PhD (Art History).
STATEMENT
About the project Texture Gaps: Maybe, it’s natural that the first instinct reaction on new tactile taboos was fantasizing about Foucault in a leather jacket. When the pandemic began, the first steps of the authorities were to put on special tapes that restricted the use of entertainment venues. Across Warsaw hundreds of swings and carousels have become holes in the texture of reality. Black silhouettes, like an aliens, formed magnetic gaps in the everyday view. Those mysterious shapes reminded the idea of enlightenment in the texture of existence. Covered by fingerprints, they became a pure manifestation of the world-‐on-‐pause, and shaped a metaphor of a gap where some forgotten knowledge became visible. Regardless of the reason for the creation of those unusual architectural forms, they definitely brought methodological perspectives. Because when it goes about the Architecture, the most important is not a building itself, but the enter to the void, from which a view on the surrounding world opens.
We asked ...
How has the situation of the last months changed your artistic work?
The number of subject to reflect on grew up, and the contextual field became more solid.
How does an idea become art?
Becoming art for idea means to receive a shape that can help others to experience it.
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