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Men

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

Pipes

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

Hungry Gap (for My Mother)

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 Sour­ces of Light

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

Balance Practice

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

Armatura polonica utilitate graviditatis

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

The Performer

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

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

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

Speech is Silver

A silver cast of the artist’s gullet.

Untitled

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

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

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

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)

Untitled (Lifebouy)

Lifebuoys made of rein­for­ced cement.

Portrait of Cicely Saunders

Portrait of Cicely Saunders

A por­trait of the pioneer of modern pal­liative medicine.

Exit

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

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.

Fruit of anxiety, vegetable of calm

RASTER EDITIONS

Fruit of anxiety, vegetable of calm

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

Caprice

Caprice

The artist placed a vase filled with his own used tooth­brushes on the piano that stood in the exhibition space of the Polish Cul­tural Institute in Paris.

Snowman of Quotations

Snowman of Quotations

(Polski) Ulepiony ze śniegu i umiesz­czony w zamrażarce bałwan ma sześć mosiężnych guzików z wygrawerowanymi po grecku dwoma sen­ten­cjami z Rozmyślań Marka Aureliusza.

Promissory-Note-Room

Promissory-Note-Room

To see this instal­lation by Dawicki its visitors had to sign a con­tract in which they swore to keep what they were about to see a com­plete secret or risk a lawsuit.

Place in the Heart

Place in the Heart

A cage of gar­gan­tuan dimen­sions built of bird cages, all of which are empty except for one, con­taining a dead sparrow.

Ten Thousand

Ten Thousand

The entire budget dedicated for the produc­tion of the artwork—10,000 Polish złoty—was arran­ged in hundred-złoty notes on a glass serving plate in a display window in the very center of Warsaw.

Complication (2)

Complication (2)

The piece cen­ters around a photograph set upon a table, depic­ting a selec­tion of drawings and sket­ches by Dawicki, along with his pain­ting tools.

Bottle-Opener Paintings

Bottle-Opener Paintings

Two oil pain­tings with a bottle opener welded to the bottom of each frame.

Panorama

Panorama

A pain­ting with only a single dimension—length; a strap of canvas framed by a golden molded frame.

Invocation

Invocation

In Homage to Bruce Lee

In Homage to Bruce Lee

First attempt at realizing the piece ended in failure – smashing a hole in the wall of gal­lery Rotor in Graz proved impossible.

Amareggdon

Amareggdon

A series of photographs depic­ting obituaries of people with names almost iden­tical to those of celebrities from the world of politics, enter­tain­ment and the arts.

Advertising project

Advertising project

Working for over two years as a graphic artist in one of Cracow’s adver­tising agen­cies, Dawicki had placed his microscopic self-​portrait on posters, leaflets and fol­ders com­mis­sioned by producers of heating equip­ment, medical and health products or heavy industry raw materials suppliers.