{"id":2730,"date":"2019-04-08T12:19:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T10:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labiennale.art.pl\/?post_type=wystawy&p=2730\/"},"modified":"2019-05-09T16:34:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T14:34:03","slug":"flight","status":"publish","type":"wystawy","link":"https:\/\/labiennale.art.pl\/en\/wystawy\/flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flight<\/em>, a sculpture by Roman Sta\u0144czak, will be presented at the Polish Pavilion during the 58th International Art Exhibition \u2014 La Biennale di Venezia. Visitors will experience the unique form and scale of the sculpture \u2014 an inside-out aircraft \u2014 but also the effect of an unexpected \u201creversal of the world\u201d. The project delivers a commentary on the situation of political and economic transformations. The exhibition, curated by \u0141ukasz Mojsak and \u0141ukasz Ronduda, organised by the Zach\u0119ta \u2014 National Gallery of Art, opens on 11 May 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cTurning things inside out speaks about hope\u201d, Roman Sta\u0144czak stated in an interview devoted to the Flight <\/em>project. The procedure of turning an object inside out has a spiritual dimension as \u201cpreparation for death\u201d, passage to the other side, creation through destruction and at the same time, the act of reaching the essence of things. It is also a commentary on the effects of political and economic transformations that make themselves manifest both in material culture and in the society. The Polish Pavilion will feature an aircraft processed according to Sta\u0144czak\u2019s artistic strategy of deconstructing the material order of things \u2013 depriving them of their usual function and aesthetic value, while offering them a new form and meaning. The aircraft will be cut in half and turned inside out so that its interior with cockpit and on-board equipment, as well as passenger seats, will emerge on the outside, while the wings and the hull will be wound inside, to the interior of the sculpture.<\/p>\n

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The idea of an inside-out aircraft \u2014 which came to the artist\u2019s mind 30 years ago but never materialised \u2014 marks yet another stage of Roman Sta\u0144czak\u2019s creative practice. Throughout the years, it has grown in new contexts that lend Flight <\/em>a multi-dimensional and universal character. Nowadays, the aircraft stands as a symbol of the rift that troubles the Polish society. On a more universal level, it is also a major technological achievement and a machine that we entrust our lives to. It marks the starting point for interpreting and enquiring about the condition of the Polish society after a breakthrough event. A private aircraft is also a status symbol and a means of transport used by the so-called \u201c1%\u201d \u2014 the \u00fcber-wealthy social class. To deconstruct this embodiment of accumulation of capital is to deliver a critical commentary on reality marked by economic and social inequalities. Sta\u0144czak\u2019s project also articulates the conflict between modernity and spirituality \u2014 when annihilation of one of these spheres contributes to the expansion of the other. Akin to his previous works, Sta\u0144czak seeks to prove that people are in need of a spiritual change, which they may experience in a situation that negates a familiar order of things and disturbs their safe existence in the world.<\/p>\n

Sta\u0144czak graduated from the famous \u201cKowalnia\u201d studio of Professor Grzegorz Kowalski at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Around the same time, the studio of Professor Kowalski \u2014 a disciple of Oskar Hansen, visionary architect and author of the Open Form Theory \u2014 was attended by such artists as Katarzyna Kozyra, Pawe\u0142 Althamer, Artur \u017bmijewski and Jacek Adamas. Sta\u0144czak debuted in the 1990s, when his pieces emerged from the margins of the then-nascent Polish critical art. The artist declares: \u201cMy sculptures speak of living not among objects but among ghosts\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2726,"template":"","acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n