Artur Zmijewski

Artur Zmijewski is an artistic radical who realizes extreme creative conceptions. In his works he refers in an almost obsessive way to the problem of the corporality and physicality of the human being, perceived from the perspective of our basic biological functions.  “The physicality of the human body –  it’s the primary unit in Zmijewski’s scheme” (Michael Brodeur).  Such a perspective poses a question about the relationship between the material body, subject to illness and decay, and a person’s intellectual and spiritual dimension…

The stateside debut of Polish video artist and filmmaker Artur Zmijewski covers the last five years of his practice and stars casts of characters uncommon in contemporary art: the physically handicapped, the aged and infirm, nude soldiers, deaf children…

Portrait

Zmijewski’s pictures seem purely documentary at first sight, yet the artist’s analytical and precise stagings are also evident in the choice of frame and the montage. Although Zmijewski regarded the tools available for sculptural works as too limited, he has not lost his interest in the classical subject of sculpture: the representation of the human body…

So genannte Wellen und andere Phänomene des Geistes