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“RETRANSMISSION__” Presents a Contemporary Collective from Poland

“RETRANSMISSION__” Presents a Contemporary Collective from Poland

This fresh new survey of Polish artists primarily born in the 1980s is called RETRANSMISSION__ . It has as much to do with the influence of digital arts as it does with the plastic arts and art in the street.

Bartek Swiatecki Pener. “Mirror Lake”. RETRANSMISSION_ Mirus Gallery. Denver, Colorado. (photo © Nawer)

This group collection at the Denver location of Mirus Gallery may possibly represent a physical lynchpin to the coming metaverse, minus the Oculus headset. A professionalized crew of artists formally trained in studies like architecture and urbanism, illustration, graphic design, painting, typography, and sculpture; These are not the kids on the street who popularized first and second-wave graffiti of the West, but rather the students of the scene infused by lore and not necessarily beholden to it.

“This collective of artists have lived and worked amongst each other,” says the gallery press release, “individually and sometimes through collaboration for many years, establishing a contemporary style unique to Poland.”

Oskar Podolski. “Full Time Crime”. “Expect 1.0” “Nothing 2.0” RETRANSMISSION_ Mirus Gallery. Denver, Colorado. (photo © Nawer)

To mention that a certain number of these artists have a past in graffiti/street art culture sets the context of the artist’s common background, but those influences appear through mirrors, or software filters, if at all. You may look for deconstructed letter forms or raw off-kilter placements of elements, but this is such a self-aware, contemporary tableau, one may need x-ray vision to see the street from here.

Spray tags, skateboard graphics, street interventions, and covert acts of illegal artmaking may be influences in this corner of the street scene – one that has matured in the last decade and a half to embrace geometry and sophisticated illustration. It’s maturity now and development of a visual language that brings one to RETRANSMISSION__ where we are currently meditating on form, texture, refracted light, and balanced composition.

Featured Artists: Bartłomiej Chwilczyński, Bartosz Janczak, Chazme, Lukasz Berger Cekas, Lukasz Habiera Nawer, Oskar Podolski, Pawel Ryzko, Bartek Świątecki (Pener), Robert Proch, Sainer, Seikon

Bartosz Janczak. “Faun”. RETRANSMISSION_ Mirus Gallery. Denver, Colorado. (photo © Nawer)
Sainer. “Bez Nazwi-1”. RETRANSMISSION_ Mirus Gallery. Denver, Colorado. (photo © Nawer)
Bartolomiej Chwilcznski. “Journey XCII” “Journey LXXXVI”. RETRANSMISSION_ Mirus Gallery. Denver, Colorado. (photo © Nawer)
Pawel Ryzko. (left) “Modulation 01″ Chazme. (right) “Rise and Shine”. RETRANSMISSION_ Mirus Gallery. Denver, Colorado. (photo © Nawer)
Seikon. “Back to the Roots”. RETRANSMISSION_ Mirus Gallery. Denver, Colorado. (photo © Nawer)
Lukasz Berger Cekas. “Inter + Ferre”. RETRANSMISSION_ Mirus Gallery. Denver, Colorado. (photo © Nawer)
Lukasz Berger Cekas. “Inter + Ferre”. RETRANSMISSION_ Mirus Gallery. Denver, Colorado. (photo © Nawer)
Nawer. (center) “Transmission Fault 2”. “Transmission Fault 1”. RETRANSMISSION_ Mirus Gallery. Denver, Colorado. (photo © Nawer)
Robert Proch. (background left). Foreground. “Sketches 2003-2018”. RETRANSMISSION_ Mirus Gallery. Denver, Colorado. (photo © Nawer)
Left, Oskar Podolski. “Complete Manual of L1fe” and “Exclamat-i-on”. Center and right, Chazme. RETRANSMISSION_ Mirus Gallery. Denver, Colorado. (photo © Nawer)
Left and center, Oskar Podolski. Right, background Bartosz Janczak. Right, foreground Nawer. “Inter + Ferre”. RETRANSMISSION_ Mirus Gallery. Denver, Colorado. (photo © Nawer)
RETRANSMISSION_ Mirus Gallery. Denver, Colorado. (photo © Nawer)
RETRANSMISSION_ Mirus Gallery. Denver, Colorado. (photo © Nawer)

RETRANSMISSION_ At Mirus Gallery in Denver, Colorado is currently on view to the general public until July 8th. Click HERE for more details and schedules.

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1300 Metal Bars in Lodz: Cekas Creates Sculptural “Silence” on a Wall

1300 Metal Bars in Lodz: Cekas Creates Sculptural “Silence” on a Wall

The mercurial role of light and shadow continually vex the Street Artist as no two days are the same, sometimes no two hours. If you are a photographer or a fan, your experience of the work outside will be subject to weather, lighting, and wiseguys who want to buff or diss someones work. These elements are part of the game and you might as well get used to it.

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Lukasz Berger „Cisza” | “Silence” for Lodz Murals. Lodz, Poland. (photo © Maciej Stempij)

This fall in Lodz, Poland the urban art organizer Michal Biezynski chose the Wroclaw-based artists Cekas (Lukasz Berger) to more fully play with the elements with his sculptural installation of 1300 metal bars protruding at different lengths perpendicular to a wall.

“The installation is permanent and it’s playing with the light and the sunbeams,” Biezynski tells us, “The everyday cycle of the sun creates a dynamic character and the “drawings” made of the shadows are directly related to the time of the day and the season of the year. Apart from that, the installation also works at night with the light of the moon.”

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Lukasz Berger „Cisza” | “Silence” for Lodz Murals. Lodz, Poland. (photo © Maciej Stempij)

A graduate of the Sculpture Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Cekas favors experimentation – something not uncommon in graffiti, Street Art, and mural-making. As he watches the sun trace across the sky overhead and sees the configuration of the shadows produce new forms and patterning, he talks about the meaning of “Silence,” the name of the installation.

“The installation is an answer to the communication between the modern man and the reality around him,” he says, explaining that our individual an cumulative actions are “producing noise, which at times may seem inaudible, but it is still present.” So each one of those small metal bars (which cumulatively weigh more than 500 kg) is a contributor to a collective sound – in this case a sort of visual noise, if you will.

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Lukasz Berger „Cisza” | “Silence” for Lodz Murals. Lodz, Poland. (photo © Maciej Stempij)

Michal says “Silence” (spelled in the Polish “Cisza”) is a great departure from the mural program he has fostered over the last few years that has drawn nearly 50 artists to walls around the city, and it has piqued his interest in what else may be possible when programming art for the public sphere. “I would like to implement new things in Lodz’s urban tissue – modern sculptures and installations. What’s more, in the framework of my work in Lodz Event Centre, I want to renounce the festival form – I want to convert it more into an all year round public art program.” That’s the sound of someone thinking for new ways for art to engage the public; another curious evolution of the Lodz festival that grew from graffiti and Street Art, casting his goals in a different light.

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Lukasz Berger „Cisza” | “Silence” for Lodz Murals. Lodz, Poland. (photo © Maciej Stempij)

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Lukasz Berger „Cisza” | “Silence” for Lodz Murals. Lodz, Poland. (photo © Maciej Stempij)

 

To learn more about Lodz Murals click HERE
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