Piotr Kolanko
PL / EN

Trace = presence.
A symbol activates what culture has come to associate with it.

Trace Line Shape Sign Symbol

Move along the axis. Form shifts from presence to representation — and back again.

Trace Line You don't know nothing Totem Symbols cofiguration

Practice

The practice examines processes through which experience is transformed into form, and form into meaning.

First axis — the single form

Forward trace → line → shape → sign → symbol
Return symbol → sign → shape → line → trace

Second axis — the organisation of multiplicity

Multiplicity sign → ornament → system → accumulation → proliferation → overload
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Works are grouped not by medium, but by the dominant way in which form and meaning are organized.

Second axis — the organisation of multiplicity

The second axis describes form once repeated and combined. It examines phenomena of juxtaposition, intentional and unintentional alike.

Sign Ornament System Accumulation Proliferation Overload

Move along the axis. Form shifts from presence to representation — and back again.

Black And White Sketch Iron Consequence Mystery Mystery Overload Influances

Working model

01 Experience
02 Inner image
03 Gesture, drawing
04 Sign
05 Ornament
06 System
07 Accumulation
08 Materialisation
09 Proliferation
10 Overload
11 Destruction
12 Reduction
13 Silence
14 Sign

The process does not lead toward a final form. It develops through materialization, accumulation, overload, destruction, and reduction — before beginning again.

Experience / Context

The conceptual framework of this practice does not emerge independently of lived experience. Construction, destruction, and reconstruction find a material counterpart in Jasło — the artist's hometown, almost entirely destroyed during the Second World War and subsequently rebuilt. A place whose continuity was interrupted and whose identity had to be constructed anew becomes a point of reference for thinking about trace, absence, memory, and transformation.

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Contact

Enquiries from galleries, curators, institutions, architects and collectors — regarding available works, commissions, murals and exhibition projects.

piotrkolanko@kwiatypaproci.pl

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