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This new project by Oskar Dawicki com­bines elements of per­for­mance and photography and is per­meated, as is a number of previous works of the artist’s, by the mood of existen­tial sorrow. The series of photographs prompts a reflec­tion on the role and position of traditional masculinity. To be a man is today – as the work visually argues – a chal­len­ging task, and a con­dition sub­ject to extreme pressure.

The neurotics’ monument on Aleje Ujazdowskie

Rafal Buj­now­ski has designed a monument dedicated to all neurotics. Monument has a form of a trough carved in the granite paving stones, which fills up with water during a rain­fall and forms a per­fec­tly round puddle.

“Performer” and “Walser” in Hong Kong

Premiere screenings of two loudly-​commented movies from 2015 will take place at 10 Chan­cery Lane Gal­lery in Hong Kong: “Walser”, a cinematic debut by Zbigniew Libera who wrote and direc­ted it, and “Per­for­mer”, a feature film inspired by Oskar Dawicki, starring… Oskar Dawicki playing Oskar Dawicki (dir. by Łukasz Ron­duda and Maciej Sobieszczański).

Oskar Dawicki “I’M SORRY”

A special meeting with the authors of Raster’s newest book—Oskar Dawicki’s monography “I’M SORRY”

Oskar Dawicki apologizes in Tate Modern

“Performer”, a full-​lenght film inspired by the person and art of Oskar Dawicki, premiered n England in Tate Modern. For the occasion Dawicki prepared another special per­for­mance from the never-​ending “I’m sorry” cycle.

Art meets cinema: Dawicki, Libera, Sasnal & Simon

The new book ‘Kino-Sztuka. Zwrot kinematograficzny w pol­skiej sztuce współczesnej’ – loosely trans­lated as ‘Cinema-Art. The Cinematographic Turn in Polish Con­tem­porary Art’ – by Jakub Mar­murek and Łukasz Ron­duda is a first serious attempt at map­ping out this new ten­dency in Polish art: for visual artists to trans­mute into feature films directors.

Dawicki bursts into happy tears in Lublin

‘Lacrimosa’ – an extraor­dinary instal­lation by Oskar Dawicki at Galeria Labirynt in Lublin.

‘Performer’ wins in Berlin!

‘Performer’ (2015, direc­ted by Łukasz Ron­duda, Maciej Sobieszczański) – a full-​lenght film inspired by the person and art of Oskar Dawicki (star­ring him­self!) won the Think: Film Award at the Ber­linale Festival!

Bujnowski, Dawicki and the Drunkard’s Dog

Rafal Buj­now­ski and Oskar Dawicki simul­taneously presen their own inter­pretation of a tough relation between an artist and his art in Gdansk.

Signature-forging workshop based on Oskar Dawicki’s signature

The Konin exercice in absence

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Half Empty

Pioneering and scan­dalous, an attempt at descrip­tion and inter­pretation of an artist’s work through a fic­tionalised, biographical novel.

Performer

Oskar Dawicki’s “Performer” is a story about him­self as a fic­tional charac­ter. The exhibition, com­bining various disciplines – art, film and literature – is a unique enter­prise where the per­for­mer, Dawicki’s alter ego, appears in dif­ferent incar­nations, con­stan­tly examining the boun­dary between work of art and reality.

Dawicki at Narrations Festival

Two film works by Oskar Dawicki – “The Tree of Knowledge” (2008) and “Hangman” (2011) – were presen­ted at Nar­rations Festival as large-​scale projec­tions on the buil­dings of Gdańsk’s Old Town.