Italy
Ok… here it goes.. / Probably it is was I wanted for the inicial idea of this ironic series of Self-portrait… / It is not perfect.. it will never be.. My pictures are not perfect.. I try to make it REAL.. but anyway I followed most of your suggestions from the last version..so THANK YOUUUUUU! I can see it as a Transparent Building where we can see people in their lives, in their stereotips and activities.. everyday, any time.. There would be thousands of Other situations that I could show here.. but these ones maybe are interesting… The Meaning is: In this modern world.. a lot of people seems to be living in a Box, with their minds, body and soul… And I think that sometimes is necessary to go out of the Box and breath… get the sunlight and see the life out there… It is a long history.. maybe one day, maybe with my next photographs I will try to explain better what I feel.. Anyway.. maybe it is not Original, (There are some other similars, I know) but this project is fantastic.. I had a lot of fun to create it and.. while I was working on it.. I had the idea to make it with my Girlfriend.. as Real life scenes of the day-by-day.. but this is another history.. So it is.. I hope you like it.. I love it! Most of this characters I see looking at the apartments in front of my window everyday.. some others I know people exactly like that.. and some of others are created by my imagination. This people together will be the Big Box.. the World where we live…
I’m creating a series about Eve and the apple…
pawel althamer: ‘one of many’ / exhibition at the fondazione nicola trussardi, milan / may 7 – june 5, 2007 / www.fondazionenicolatrussardi.it ‘it is a major achievement to realise that the body is only a / vehicle for the soul. I feel like a cosmonaut in the suit of / my own body, I am a trapped soul. / the body plays a role of a dress, of an address. / my bodily address is pawel althamer…’ / - pawel althamer in the exhibition ‘one of many’ (curated by massimiliano gioni / artistic director of the fondazione nicola trussardi) / pawel althamer celebrates the human being in all its fragility. / for the polish artist, the human being is always the center of / our universe, a universe which can be transformed into a / fairy tale or an extreme spiritual experience. / fiction and reality merge and overlap to construct an eerie / world.for his exhibition, pawel althamer has used his own / body and his own image as tools to construct a different / relationship with the world. multiplying his identity in an infinite / crowd of idols, dolls, and disturbing puppets, althamer / populates the exhibition with human figures and mysterious / totems. like relics of some archaic and primordial world, his / sculptures investigate the meaning of basic, visceral human relationships and question the limits of identity. with these human sculptures althamer creates a visual / autobiography, portraying himself as a child, as a tiny / character in some ancient fable or as a monstrous and / hyper-realistic creature. / as in a family album, althamer sculpts portraits of his little / daughter, of his partner – represented almost as a giant, / pregnant athena – and of his new born son, who is reduced / to a little foetus. in a different section of the exhibition, pawel althamer presents / nine videos, each of them reporting his reactions to different / drugs: poetic and fragmentary self-portraits, althamer’s films / document the altered states of the artist’s mind while / describing new and obscure magical rituals. with each video / he confronts the audience with a non filteredreality. the park outside the palazzina appiani building becomes / also a stage. in front of the entry there is a huge self-portrait / of the artist – an aerostat balloon, more than 20 meters long, / presenting himself naked before the judgment of the public. / as if it were a village festival, althamer flies over the trees like / an UFO or an absurd, temporary public monument. an african musician plays traditional folk songs, / which through a special audio system is distributed in the / exhibition and on the balcony that opens onto the sports / arena: ‘life is treated like a movie, complete with a soundtrack / – a film in real time.’ pawel althamer / the polish artist was born in warsaw in 1967. / between 1988 and 1993 althamer attended classes in the / sculpture department of the academy of fine arts in warsaw. / most of his sculptures are made with organic materials such / as grass, hemp fiber, animal intestines,wax and hair. ‘I feel such a distance from myself and the sculptures are a / kind of sign, and I use mixed techniques because I feel I’m / very mixed, mentally mixed, and by education I’m mixed.’ / - pawel althamer althamer is also a performance and action artist / creator / of video art.
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