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Marlena Kudlicka, “unprotected 0 fig.2”, sculpture 2015, powder coated steel, glass, 240cm x 320cm x 142cm, © Marlena Kudlicka, courtesy of the Artist and ŻAK | BRANICKA
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Marlena Kudlicka, “Lecture as a contour of A. The beginning of shape”, sculpture 2015, powder coated steel 231cm x 356cm x 40cm, © Marlena Kudlicka, courtesy of the Artist and ŻAK | BRANICKA
Exhibition
Marlena Kudlicka. Quality Control and Standard Verification. Sculpture
19 Feb 2016 – 3 May 2016
Address
- Strzegomski Square 2a
- Wrocław
Lower Silesian Voivodeship - 53-681
- Poland
“I am interested in the question: what tolerance of precision is allowed to transform thought into a physical shape?”
Marlena Kudlicka, 2012
About
Marlena Kudlicka’s constructivist art plays out in several intertextual fields: language and its typographic representation; technical drawing and humanistic speculation; mechanically reproduced conception and empirically corrigible form. The artist’s metal sculptures are made in a locksmith’s shop, which becomes the site for developing shapes in a mental and physical way. However, it is not about “machinism” but, to quote Władysław Strzemiński, about the crucial features of the creative act – “the process of becoming, assembling a work of art (…)”. It is not just the artist’s conception that manifests itself in the creation of a shape, but also error – divergence from the initial intention that stems from the unpredictability of the creative act as well as the acceptable range of error in using the measuring or execution tools, which is specified in the process of their calibration and standardisation. Reflection on error has been the inspiration for the artist’s most recent cycle of works from 2014-2015 – “Protocol of error on.e”, “a divided dot”, “unprotected 0”.
Linguistic speculations in Kudlicka’s art, who uses points, letters, digits and words to create a linguistic grammar of space, situate her close to Stanisław Dróżdż’s thinking and his concept-shapes. For this reason, we dedicate Marlena Kudlicka’s exhibition to the patron of our museum.
Marlena Kudlicka graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań in 1998. She lives in Berlin.
