Artists: Jan Domicz, Zbigniew Gostomski, Daniel Koniusz, Mark Leckey, Maria Loboda, Agnieszka Mastalerz, Christoph Meier, Tomasz Mróz
Exhibition title: Proposals for a show
Curated by: Jan Domicz, Piotr Drewko (Office for Narrated Spaces)
Venue: Wschód, Warsaw, Poland
Date: May 30 – June 27, 2020
Photography: Michał Matejko / all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Wschód, Warsaw
This is a collection of unrealized exhibition proposals – half-baked half-ideas and future ruins collapsed on top of each other. Since the number of canceled or postponed exhibitions has reached infinity, we are emancipated from the future. We ought to use present as a future tense and at the same time allow number of artists to decide how exhibitions will look like. Cherish the faith in fiction and speculation along with the need to conjure the future. It is a compilation of projects that may look best on paper, proposals thrown into garbage bin or hidden in drawers while still waiting for the right context. Here, the art is understood as a tool for constituting increasingly efficient concise metaphors and compression.
‘There is nothing more evil than announcing what you will do, and then doing exactly that’
-JD
“Proposals for a show”, exhbition view, 2020
Zbigniew Gostomski, “It begins in Wrocław”, 1970, inkjetprint on photographic paper, 50 x 70 cm *proposal for the Visual Arts Symposium Wrocław ‘70
“Proposals for a show”, exhbition view, 2020
“Proposals for a show”, exhbition view, 2020
Jan Domicz, “Walkway”, 2020, inkjet print on photographic paper, framed, 50 x 70 cm *proposal for a show along a moving walkway
Jan Domicz, “Walkway”, 2020, handrail belt, lenght: 36 m *proposal for a show along a moving walkway
“Proposals for a show”, exhbition view, 2020
Maria Loboda, …triumphant, 2020, painted mural, 240 x 140 cm *a phrase that was never used in a title of a work
Agnieszka Mastalerz, no mental scars, no nursed grudges, 2019, parachute fabric, tape, needle *cut outs for performance uniforms in Avion Hotel, Brno
“Proposals for a show”, exhbition view, 2020
Christoph Meier, untitled (Cavalli), 2020, glazed clay, 12 parts *proposal for a horse show at MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
“Proposals for a show”, exhbition view, 2020
Daniel Koniusz, untitled, 2020, speakers, sound *unfinished soundscape made out of all possible groove locks
Christoph Meier, untitled (Cavalli), 2020, glazed clay, 12 parts *proposal for a horse show at MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
“Proposals for a show”, exhbition view, 2020
Tomasz Mróz, Szkice do projektu, 2011, inkjet print on photographic paper, 20 x 30 cm *unrealised ark proposal
Tomasz Mróz, Szkice do projektu, 2011, inkjet print on photographic paper, 20 x 30 cm *unrealised ark proposal
“Proposals for a show”, exhbition view, 2020
Mark Leckey, Prop4aShw, 2010, hd video, ‘4:00 *’This is a proposal for a show, which is going to happen at some point […]’