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Dorota Jurczak and Jan Eustachy Wolski at Piktogram

January 24, 2024

Artists: Dorota Jurczak and Jan Eustachy Wolski

Exhibition title: Dorjan

Venue: Piktogram, Warsaw, Poland

Date: November 18, 2023 – January 23, 2024

Photography: Błażej Pindor / all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Piktogram, Warsaw

DORJAN, he got lost. Or she got lost, as it consists of two persons and it is not totally clear who it is. It got shoes, but it is not able to tell where should it head off to. It is surrounded by clocks, but it doesn’t have a clue about it being in specific time. Maybe this is not too distant future, but time retrogrades and loops quickly. It fights itself in a constant clink. The city is modern and old-fashioned at the same time. Trousers are checkered, shirts are striped. It is a time of conflict. Hostile factions are plotting, scheming, and conspiring all the time. There is a resistance movement. In its radicalism it goes as far as pissing on a graffiti-covered wall. Its opponents in hats, tweed jackets, ties, and horn-rimmed glasses are calculating. It results from their calculations the price reduction should be 50% or 100%. A wide range of footwear is available. The positioning of the shoe boxes suggests growth and stagnation simultaneously. Or perhaps the need to build barricades. Each shoe is without its pair, but in a different colour. Perhaps this is a kind of sign. While some drink light beer from their mugs, others have to leave to wander – they look like old farts. There are those who wander aimlessly and those who turn knobs and dials methodically.

Dorota Jurczak and Jan Eustachy Wolski, Dorjan, 2023, exhibition view, Piktogram, Warsaw

Dorota Jurczak, ulica I and ulica II, 2020, vinyl paint, ink on wallpaper, diptych: 103 x 26,1 cm (each), painted wooden frame: 113 x 32,2 cm (each)

Dorota Jurczak, shoestair, 2020, glazed ceramics, painted wooden boxes, 52 x 112 x 17 cm

Dorota Jurczak, shoewalls, 2020, glazed ceramics, painted wooden boxes, 87 x 112 x 17 cm

Jan Eustachy Wolski, Untitled, 2023, oil on linen canvas, 56 x 40 cm

Jan Eustachy Wolski, Untitled, 2023, oil on jute coffee sack, wooden, carved and painted frame, 99 x 168 cm

Jan Eustachy Wolski, Untitled, 2023, oil on jute coffee sack, 61 x 87 cm

Jan Eustachy Wolski, Untitled, 2023, watercolour and pencil on paper, 40 x 50 cm, painted wooden frame, museum glass (UV filter, antireflex), 54,4 x 64,3 cm

Jan Eustachy Wolski, Untitled, 2023, pencil on paper, 40 x 50 cm, wooden frame, museum glass (UV filter, antireflex), 54,4 x 64,3 cm

Jan Eustachy Wolski, Untitled, 2023, watercolour and pencil on paper, 30 x 40 cm, painted wooden frame, museum glass (UV filter, antireflex), 44,4 x 54,4 cm