Bronze casting, 27 x 10 x 6 cm x 2 pcs, signed.
The work is from the series "Nice to meet you", with which the artist debuted in 2010.
The work has an edition number of 1/8.
"The objects that make up the Nice to meet you series always refer to the context of human corporeality. Their precise form, which constitutes an autonomous aesthetic value, betrays its anthropological references. Whether through the shape inspired by the miraculous machinery of our body, or through the creation of objects that, as prosthesis-substitutes, become part of the body. However, this is art in which physicality (man's peculiar rex extensa) does not manifest itself directly, but rather exists by suggestion. Minimalist sterility - the sublimity of small sculptures sits next to unprocessed and primordial matter, indicating seemingly distant spaces: the world of culture and the domain of nature. These are two orders constituting us in the bodily aspect and as cognitive subjects ( res cogitans) realizing, or not, the possibility of constructing our own person through transgression in both directions. The situation of " peculiar servicing" through the exchange of parts justified in the perspective of the narrative of science may fulfill the myth of immortality. This story finds its contemporary heroes, whose images can be perceived as devotional, specific "saints", although not without a shadow of irony. In an attempt to give us an idea of ourselves, the artist asks where in the field of potentiality and changeability there is an unchanging essence, something like a true essence, although perhaps only existence is real." text: Szymon Maliborski.
About the Artist: Łukasz Surowiec was born in 1985 in Rzeszów. He is an interdisciplinary artist, sculptor, performer, video maker, author of social actions. A graduate of the Sculpture Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań and the Universität der Künste in Berlin. In his objects and artistic interventions, Surowiec penetrates and explores current social relations, and also addresses historical and political issues. His work takes the form of a method to explore public reality, with a focus on marginalized individuals. In his artistic activity he addresses current social issues, also going beyond the walls of official art institutions. Lukasz Surowiec was the recipient of a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. He is the winner of the prestigious Spojrzenia (2017) competition for young artists. In 2019, he presented his prototype of a monument at the "Warsaw under Construction" festival. He has presented his works at numerous solo and group exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including: Nice to Meet You (Art Agenda Nova, Krakow130, 2010); Swedish Pigeons (Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, 2012); Dziady (Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, 2013); Dyrać się nikt nie boi (CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2014); Poczekalnia (CCA Znaki Czasu, Toruń, 2014); Air de Pologne (De Garage, Mechelen, 2012); Berlin Biennale (Kunst Werke,Berlin 2015, Procedures for the head/Polish Art Today, Kunsthalle, Bratislava, 2012); East + Europe - Eastern European Contemporary Art Exhibition (City Hall Exhibition Hall , Hong Kong, 2013); Critical Juncture, (during Kochi Muziris Biennale, India, 2104); Survival Kit 6 ( Riga, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2014); A Market of Values Bratislava, Chelsea College, London, 2015); Procedures for the head/Polish Art Today, Kunsthalle Bratislava, Bratislava, 2015); "Przychodnia" (Poznań, 2016); "Przychodnia" (MOCAK, Kraków, 2019); CELEBRATION | Polish-Japanese Exhibition of Contemporary Art (2019).
