Karolina Breguła
I Don’t Cry over Sculptures
opening: Saturday, 11.04.2015, 7pm
breakfast with the artist: Sunday, 24.05.2015, noon-2pm
exhibition until: 24.05.2015
gallery opening hours: Wed-Fri noon-6pm, Saturday 11am-3pm
Karolina Breguła has pursued a reflection on art for many years, focusing on its status, social reception, communicativeness. The artist explains that her practice consists in a constant search for senses. The question about sense relates both to the works themselves and to the sense of creative practice, artistic production and potential excess.
Breguła comments on her work “66 Conversations about Contemporary Art” from 2007: “A record of my 66 interviews with people who are not professionally connected with art, devoted to the way they perceive works by contemporary artists. This work is to help artists to recognise the tastes of their audiences.” Is it sarcasm or an attempt to locate the sense of an activity? Is it a guide to creative work that can be easily understood, or rather a euphemistic form of expressing something that everybody knows about but is afraid to say it out loud? A seeming support is offered by the online “Art Translating Agency”, initiated in 2010. It is one of the boldest projects by Breguła, who opens an agency that explains the meaning of existing works instead of creating works of her own. The artist invites a group of representatives of different professions to collaborate – these people respond to requests that relate to the meaning of various works. All “translations” have a common denominator – they depart from official interpretations that can be found in exhibition catalogues and institutional brochures.
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