Between Figurative and Abstract (Painting)
text Piotr Kolanko Between Abstract and figurative Painting
Between abstract and figurative (Painting)
text Piotr Kolanko Between Abstract and figurative Painting
Performance Not Anymore
Technical Specifications: Piotr Kolanko Not Anymore Performance, video, object Duration: 20 minutes Not Anymore is part of a series of projects aimed at integrating the self and confronting the traumas of growing up with ADHD, high sensitivity, a sense of otherness, and social misfit. In his work, the artist often explores themes of exclusion, rejection, …
The Millions of Lives
Piotr Kolano Video The film addresses personal issues of transformation and introspection, “Kolanko” navigates through various experiences of self, identity problems, memory, and self-interpretation. It does not seek to find answers, but it connects with the viewer by connecting with itself. It searches for aspects of personality that have previously been unrecognized or remained as …
The Snakes
Technical Specifications:Snake dimensions: 3×3 m, height 1.5 m, weight 40kg all of tougher, oiled steel, profile 4×4.Concrete blocks and bricks symbolize residential construction. The three snake figures represent the most primitive and primal force of unconsciousness. As aptly noted by Juan Eduardo Cirlot, due to its origin, physiognomy, and habits, the snake may correspond to …
The Window
Piotr Kolano Video It is a private story about the perception of touching and the window. The symbol of the window has a high position in my symbols rating. This video is some kind of autoportrait, not only physical but also profound and transpersonal.
“Structure of reality” Process
“Structure of Reality” is more a process than a finished work, resulting from the premonitions and intuitions I gathered while creating material on this subject. It’s a separate project I revisit several times a year, observing what changes within it, how it interacts with me, whether new contents emerge, or contexts are built upon. Writing …
MOLOCH View of the exhibition
Moloch is another environment entirely designed and created by myself. I have been designing and producing fair stands booths for years. I traveled to the world’s largest trade shows and consumption festivals, observing how much money and natural resources were being wasted. The Moloch installation was my response, allowing me to mock the world of …
“All my hairy thoughts” view of the exhibition
Piotr Kolanko explores the phenomenon of the painterly trace, perceiving it as a kind of sign that does not have to be a readable symbol. Unlike the creators at the beginning of the 20th century, Kolanko does not appropriate the heritage of distant non-European cultures. His field of archaeological search is different, a specific archive – it is an attempt to capture states of his own unconsciousness, to which the only possible insight is given by dream analysis, experimentation, or introspection. Already biographically experienced with the inevitability of death, the artist nurtures élan vital, collecting transgressive events and experiences.
