Men

Oskar Dawicki’s latest work depicts a group of men suf­fering the con­sequen­ces of an unk­nown gravitational crisis. This is usually caused by too abrupt an ascent from the depths or too violent a descent from the heaves into the atmosphere. In pop cul­ture, especially in cinema, such faces of men usually accom­pany some heroic deed […]

Pipes

In a series of objects titled Pipes gold screws drill through bones in a melodious embrace.

Hungry Gap (for My Mother)

In his work, Oskar Dawicki toys with extreme emotions. The artist directs an encoun­ter between wild animals and the tool of their poten­tial annihilation.

71 Sour­ces of Light

71 lamps and spo­tlights illuminate the empty corner of the exhibition space.

Balance Practice

In a series of self-​portrait drawings the artist depic­ted him­self in his signature blue jacket, pul­ling on one end of a rope. The other end of the rope is in fact real and attached to each drawing’s frame, with dif­ferent objects such as empty vodka bot­tles, ziploc bags with money or candy dan­gling from it and thus set­ting its balance.

Armatura polonica utilitate graviditatis

The knight’s armor alludes to the myth of the armed nation and its cur­rent pro-​family policy.

The Performer

“Performer” is the first exhibition of art presen­ted in the form of a full-​length film. The com­bination of artistic per­for­mance and cinematic action, paired with documen­tary footage and a fic­tional nar­rative, come together to create an astonishing pic­ture of the world of con­tem­porary art cen­tered around the figure of Oskar Dawicki.

Gloria Amore Victis

The clas­sical form of the stone plaque embel­lished with a bronze cast of the back side of a woman’s bust is dedicated to everyone who suf­fers and who has suf­fered in the name of love.

Twenty Three Years of Losing Shine

The blue span­gled jacket was given to Dawicki as a gift in April 1995 and has since become his trademark of sorts.

Speech is Silver

A silver cast of the artist’s gullet.

Untitled

In the autumn of 2012 a 58-year-old man acted out against a pain­ting of the Bles­sed Virgin Mary of Czestochowa by throwing light­bulbs filled with black paint at it. In con­sideration of the rhetorical and artistic valors of the use of paint as a weapon, Dawicki decided to apply that idea to the white cube of the gal­lery space.

Desecrator’s Gymnastics

Dawicki car­ries out a spec­tacular display of appropriating and degrading of one of the most significant figures of con­tem­porary Polish art – the vic­tims of Andrzej Wróblewski’s Executions.

Hangman

Under six minutes long, the video depicts the artist in a precarious state of equilibrium.

Portrait of the Man Who Sold His Father’s Kidney Stone

A self-​portrait of the artist wearing a ring set with his father’s actual kidney stone.

Untitled (Lifebouy)

Lifebuoys made of rein­for­ced cement.

Portrait of Cicely Saunders

A por­trait of the pioneer of modern pal­liative medicine.

Exit

A rope made of the artist’s bed sheets and clothes was hung through the window of the gal­lery located on the top floor of the building.

Tree of Knowledge

The work inspired by the biblical story of the Tree of Know­ledge was first created for the Manifesta 7 exhibition in Roverto (2008) as a night-​time camera per­for­mance during which the artist took a bite out of all the fruit of an apple tree.

RASTER EDITIONS

Fruit of anxiety, vegetable of calm

An intimate study of vegetation made possible thanks to a phar­macological support.