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Pilgrimage -installation, mixed media, July 2011
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| Pilgrimage, installation view, July 2011 |
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| Pilgrimage, installation detail, July 2011 |
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| Pilgrimage, installation detail, July 2011 |
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| Pilgrimage, installation detail, July 2011 |
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| Pilgrimage, installation detail, July 2011 |
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| Pilgrimage, installation detail, July 2011 |
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| Pilgrimage, installation view, July 2011 |
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| Pilgrimage, installation detail, July 2011 |
My work created during the Residency at KCCC has been predominantly influenced by the interesting mixture of historic architecture and industrial part of the City port, with overwhelming cranes, platforms and docks.
I was searching for source in order to make my work, as I usually use in my artistic practice found elements, mundane and recycled materials.
I was astonished when I came across industrial skip in Klaipeda...
KCCC Exhibition Hall presents: 'Pilgrimage' interview with Beata Kozlowska
My sculptural installation consists of several objects, based on found pieces of furniture, ropes, part-objects, which are assembled in an intuitive and playful way.
In my work there is a domination of geometry, visible in cubes, triangles, squares, and rectangles of the silhouette of the assemblage. Quasi-geomertical instllation is disrupted by playful interventions within the object and the whole installation space.
This geometry, hidden order of the calmness of the CITY, has its own Natural Existence, chess-like plan of streets, patterns on the road, pavements, fechwerk of historic buildings.
At the same time, Klaipeda as the CITY Port has its unknown factor of constant fussion of ideas, turists and traditions mixed with STABLE NATURAL unstappable FLOW of LIFE.
My work is also a constant reference to other aesthetic languages of moderinism, minimalism, postminimalism, constructivism and Post-duchampian tradition of ready made.
I tend to see the object as a starting point for my artistic and playful improvisation.
There is also an urge for aestheticization of EVERYDAY life through seeing beauty in unwanted.
