If everything is repeating
The problem of automation of the
photo-graphic process - photography as a mass
production with a reflection on the
ap-propriation of objects by reference to the
methods of representation. On the
exhibi-tion are shown the outer layers of objects
“pulled” from the surface by an automated
camera. And printed in 3D a figure of the
monument, using the same application,
the artist photographed again and prints
again. He repeats this process several
times. Each new object loses focus
- details are disappearing and elude.
If everything is repeating, installation, 3D prints, auto-generated mapped textures, 2014
Dolna gallery- sketch for a project
In one simple treatment succeeded to
transform the interior of the gallery in
a three-dimensional drawing.
Dobisze-wski marked with a thick black line
all the corners altering perceptions of
space. Architectural forms have become
more painting. White exhibition halls
began to resemble a drawing, grew
softer as paper mock-up.
Dolna gallery - sketch for a project, installation, charcoal drawing, 2014
Dolna gallery - sketch for a project, Minor absences exhibition, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków 2014
Minor absences catalogue
Designations
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Minor absences
exhibition, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków 2014
Designations
The sentences of Marshall
McLuhan, Stanisław Dróżdż
and Ludwig Wittgenstein
were used as lenses to made
a photographs.
Installation contains pinhole
photographs (silver contact
prints 8” x 10” and 5” x 7”)
and word-shaped lenses.
Designations
project website
Minor absences
catalogue
Medium is a Message, Marshall McLuhan
from Designations series
Fixation
The basis for the Fixation exhibition
was transfer of the technique used in
marketing research (*eye-tracking)
into the sphere of art. The artist asked
to participate in the research a group of
dozens of people, who were presented
with the visual stimuli in the form of
films, photographs and illustrations.
The aim of the project was to show
other possibilities to decipher the
reality, to expand the consciousness
of perception of the recipients and to
Fixation, Galeria Miejska BWA, Bydgoszcz 2012
Fixation catalogue
Temporary internet photos
When browsing any website all images are
stored in memory of computer and
automa-tically in real time printed, and then hung
on the wall. When you browse the internet
a spectator unknowingly becomes a kind of
wizard of random photographs, it becomes
co-creator of the exhibition.
Temporary internet photos
, interactive installation, internet cafe, printer, photography, 2012
/ fot. Marek Gardulski
Temporary internet files
Surfing around the World Wide Web,
we unknowingly gather images which
document that journey. They are stored
in an album of our virtual travels – to
the Temporary Internet Files folder.
Photographs, graphics, animations
seem to be postcards, because we’re
not their authors, we just unknowingly
collect them. Just like we don’t know
the person who made that postcard,
we’re unable to determine whether
a given situation took place in reality
or it is a creation of a fictitious world.
During the virtual travels we don’t
search in the images we watch for
the signs of the bygone, we just
find meanings and symbols –
time and place go into oblivion.
Movemental
Objects in photographed rooms are dislocated, the space is blown and
fragmented. Making an effort is required to rearrange the image and put
it back together into a whole. Imagined movements which we make in our
minds reflect our knowledge of the world and result from our experience
in perceiving images. The level of dislocation of objects in a photograph
can vary, and still it becomes clear that gradually, with practice we gain
great ability in rearranging images in our heads. Thus a photograph as
a complete image will exist only in our minds, photographic reality
will turn out to be virtual...
Hidden trips
Collection of undeveloped films,
ex-posed during trips in years 2006-2009.
Images recorded on films potentially
exist, it seems they can be displayed.
However they are not to be seen.
We can only listen to the sounds the
artist recorded during his trips. Based on
these sounds only we have to create our
own image of locations, events, views
and people. In our memories different
sensual stimuli are mixed creating
a general impression.
Sabina Czajkowska
Memorabilia
The viewer entering the exhibition
space is suddenly attacked by a series
of images that are foreign to him,
that are coming from someone else’s
world, that are a reflection, a
meta-phorical flashback of the memory
of the author, who invades our mind
with his past. The flash brings out
the black out of the white and in
a short second the image is restored
in the form of an afterimage.
Timing
The progress bar is a visual
signal-ling device reflecting the progress
of work performed by a machine. In
fact, we do not know what is actually
happening, what activities have been
performed and what remains to be
done. We often anxiously observe
such progress bars on our screens
rushing it “go on!”; unfortunately we
are unable to speed the process up.
We have no influence on the figures.
Video amusingly draws our attention
to what technology hides from us, at
the same time indicating the
limita-tions of a stable picture frame. We
will not see nor learn about anything
more than what we see.
Sabina Czajkowska
Re-medium
Tomasz Dobiszewski in his work “Re-medium” creates a camera out of a pill pack.
The space in which the image appears is where the pill lay just a moment ago.
The image might be then a vision after the pill has been taken, or this vision
might be the consequence of taking the image. The author, for whom, pinhole
photography has always been an uncovering medium, is trying to convince us,
by putting instructions next to the photographs of how to use them in the shape
of an informative brochure added to the medicine, that during the times of
“visual pauperisation” the images will still appear, even if only as placebo.
Marek Noniewicz
Re-medium, leaflet, A5, 2002-2005
Re-medium, lens A, 10,5x7,8 cm in frame 24x18 cm, edition 10, 2002-2005
Re-medium, cameras built out of a pill packs, pinhole photography, silver contact print, edition 10, 2002-2005
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A pinhole camera placed on
the ceiling registers the view
of rooms where little furniture
was installed on the walls. In
this way two different scales of
the objects photographed clash
merging into illusory blend of
the real and the staged.
Pinocycle
The author travels around the city
with a camera installed on the
bicycle frame. This way of shooting
from the top takes some
unpredict-able effect. On the photographs we
see the vehicle frame, blurry hands
of the artist, a curved line of the
ho-rizon and irregular streaks of light,
but in this case only the clear bike
is the subject of photos?
Pinocycle
, pinhole photography, silver contact print, map, edition 4 + AP, 2004
Tomasz Dobiszewski (born in 1977) in 2005 graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, from the Intermedia Photography Department directed by Krzysztof J. Baranowski and Stefan Wojnecki. He lives and works in Wrocław, Poland.
He formulates his expressions using photography, video and multimedia installations. The area of interest for the artist is time and space, limitations of the viewer’s perception, illusion and problems of participations. In works which are evidence of artistic taming of the media he does not stop at purely conceptual cognitive strategies but enriches the discourse by non-intellectual elements such as sensual impressions or intuitive cognition. He connects messages readable for different human senses and by experimenting with the physiology of seeing or hearing; on the one hand aims at fuller, more complete transfer, on the other mischievously or ironically deprives viewers of the possibility to get to know the essence of the work.
Works in the The Bunkier Sztuki Collection in Krakow (PL), Palace of the Governors Photo Archives at the New Mexico History Museum (USA), collection of the Gallery of Modern Art of Leon Wyczółkowski’s Museum (PL) and in priva-te collections.
Talk to me. More, Studio BWA, Wroclaw (PL)
2007 II Festival of Pinhole Photography OFFO, Jastrzebie-Zdrój (PL)
Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography, Brant Gallery, Boston (USA)
Light Sensitivity, Galeria pod Atlantami, Walbrzych (PL)
Polygonum, Municipal Gallery BWA, Bydgoszcz (PL)
Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography, University Art Gallery – University of Massachu- setts Dartmouth, New Bedford (USA)
Shreads of time and scraps of memory, Photography Gallery Fokus, Siedlce (PL)
Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston (USA) 2006 Pinholes In Action, Galeria Dzialan, Warszawa (PL)
Re-vision – II Warsaw Festival of Art Photography, Galeria Sztuki Mediów ASP, Warszawa (PL)
Pinhole Photography from Z. Tomaszczuk’s Collection, Wroclaw Non Stop Festival, Dom Edyty Stein, Wroclaw (PL)
Picture of the Year 2005, Hotel Europejski, Warszawa (PL)
Memorabilia, inSPIRACJE Festival, Amfilada Gallery, Szczecin (PL)
Camera obscura, ZPAF Gallery, Katowice (PL) 2005 Presentation, Brda Gallery, Bydgoszcz (PL)
Exhibition of Artists from Bydgoszcz, Patras (GR)
Object Hunting - Biennale of Photography, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznan (PL)
Photovision, Wschodnia Gallery, Lodz (PL)
Pinhole Photography from Z. Tomaszczuk’s Collection, International Photography Festival, Lodz (PL) 2004 Crossing time, crossing spaces, CSW Inner Spaces, Poznan (PL)
Retransmission Festival, Gdansk, Warszawa, Lodz (PL)
ESC., Museum of Artists, Lodz (PL)
Biennale of Photography, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL)
Exibition of Dwarf Photography, Bydgoszcz, Swinoujscie (PL)
ISCI – on the other side of screen, Kolonia artystów, PGR_ART, Gdansk (PL)
Pinhole Photography from Z. Tomaszczuk’s Collection, Galeria pod Schodami, Kraków (PL) 2003 Offensiva Film Festival, Wroclaw (PL)
Cialosc, Spiz7 Gallery, Gdansk (PL)
2002 Konstruction3 [dekonstruction], FUgg – Festival Inner Spaces, CSW Inner Spaces, Poznan (PL)
Hi-story, Gallery 011, Torun (PL)
Forma nova oculos terret, Factory, Lodz (PL)
2001 Biennale of Photography, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL)
Absinth, Level -1, CSW Inner Spaces, Poznan (PL) 2000 La dolce vita, VIII Festiwal Inner Spaces, Poznan (PL)
SCHOLARSHIPS / RESIDENCIES / AWARDS:
2012 Scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (PL) 2010 Plat(t)form 2010, Fotomuseum, Winterthur (CH)
2008 Member and organiser of SZKLARNIA Photography review, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL) Promotional Film Contest, Wroclaw (PL) [special award]
2007 Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography, Boston (USA) Promotional Film Contest, Wroclaw (PL) [second award]
2006 Photography workshops, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Bialystok (PL) 2004 Award in Edward Hartwig’s Photo Award, Lublin (PL) [first award] 2003 Offensiva Film Festival, Wroclaw (PL) [special award]
ExHIbItIONS [CHOSEN]
2014 If everything is repeating, Galeria Fotografii PF, CK Zamek, Poznań (PL)
Poetics of Light, New Mexico History Museum, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe (USA)
Minor absences, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (PL) 2013 Designations, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (PL)
The Entropy of Art: Catalogue, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław (PL)
Objective/Subjective, Media Faculty Gallery WST, Zabrze (PL)
Meanwhile, Dance Base, Fringe Festival, Edinburgh (Scotland)
Socio-political Poster, Poster Box Gallery, Wrocław (PL)
Meanwhile, Day Tripper Action, ENSBA&CNSMD, Lion (France)
Photographs..., Obok ZPAF Gallery, Warszawa (PL) 2012 Fixation, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL)
Objective/Subjective, ZPAF Gallery, Katowice (PL)
Temporary Internet Photos, Photomonth 2012, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (PL) 2011 Diversity of view, Museum of Photography, Bydgoszcz (PL)
IN OUT Festival, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk (PL)
Unik, Kledio Gallery, Tirana (AL)
2010 Synesthesia Festival, CK Agora, Wroclaw (PL)
Polygonum 2, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL)
IN OUT Festival, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk (PL)
Languorous Happenings, Modern Art Gallery, Bydgoszcz (PL)
One dog, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL)
HALLO!, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL)
Where are we going, DKP Gallery, Wilno (LT)
Shadowplay, Mazovian Centre of Contemporary Art “Elektrownia”, Radom (PL) 2009 Until do Us Part, Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Kraków (PL)
One dog, Vilnius Railway Station Gallery, Wilno (LT)
Artventure, Saarlandisches Kunstlerhaus, Saarbrucken (D)
Against Seeing, Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Kraków (PL)
Show me Yours, Mannheimer Kunsverein, Mannheim (D)
2008 Now! Artists of Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Mazovian Centre of Contemporary Art “Elektrownia”, Radom (PL)
