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Piotr Uklański — “ You know, I don’t invest meanings into the work — that’s the viewer’s job. When you are a kid growing up, you want to be a freman, doctor, policeman, and a football player —all in the same lifetime….I want to be all of the following: a modernist, a post-minimalist, a popconceptualist, a photographer, a dilettante, a painter’s muse, a political artist like Boltanski, and a film maker like Roman Polanski.” - Piotr Uklański, 2004
Piotr Uklański

“ You know, I don’t invest meanings into the work — that’s the viewer’s job. When you are a kid growing up, you want to be a freman, doctor, policeman, and a football player —all in the same lifetime….I want to be all of the following: a modernist, a post-minimalist, a popconceptualist, a photographer, a dilettante, a painter’s muse, a political artist like Boltanski, and a film maker like Roman Polanski.” - Piotr Uklański, 2004

Piotr Uklański's work presents an extended artist's statement rendered directly as the artwork itself, with text dyed into oxidized cotton stretched over canvas. The fiber-reactive dye on the weathered textile gives the words a material presence, blurring the boundary between language and object, statement and form. In characteristic fashion, Uklański turns the question of artistic identity and intention into the work itself, playfully deflecting meaning while simultaneously asserting a sprawling, contradictory artistic ambition.

Medium
fiber-reactive dye on oxidized cotton over canvas

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

November 12, 2013

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Piotr Uklański, “ You know, I don’t invest meanings into the work — that’s the viewer’s job. When you are a kid growing up, you want to be a freman, doctor, policeman, and a football player —all in the same lifetime….I want to be all of the following: a modernist, a post-minimalist, a popconceptualist, a photographer, a dilettante, a painter’s muse, a political artist like Boltanski, and a film maker like Roman Polanski.” - Piotr Uklański, 2004

Piotr Uklański's work presents an extended artist's statement rendered directly as the artwork itself, with text dyed into oxidized cotton stretched over canvas. The fiber-reactive dye on the weathered textile gives the words a material presence, blurring the boundary between language and object, statement and form. In characteristic fashion, Uklański turns the question of artistic identity and intention into the work itself, playfully deflecting meaning while simultaneously asserting a sprawling, contradictory artistic ambition.

Medium
fiber-reactive dye on oxidized cotton over canvas
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Polish, Thought Provoking, Photograph, Mixed Media, Conceptual Art, Experimental, Introspective, Portrait, Contemporary, Post-Modern

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