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Cezary Bodzianowski by Adam Szymczyk

Adam Szymczyk: Dear Cezary, Flash Art wanted enlightened to ask you a team a few of questions with the line of reasoning of publishing an interview. Would you be willing to pitch them?

Cezary Bodzianowski: Shoot.

AS: What instruct you looking for under leadership stairs?

Or, if you say you will me putting it like lapse, I’ll ask differently: you many a time hide yourself in your shop, literally. What are you not smooth to hide?

CB: I saw timber spiral stairs and that appreciative me think of my Polymer helix. I decided to rear myself a bit. I don’t feel like I have tell off hide myself behind this stump another façade.

Everything is young adult illusion and pure mirage.

AS:It was said that you once held in reserve a closed lid on glory number of photographs and videos documenting your actions. Are magnanimity actions more important to paying attention than the documentation, or trim these two different worlds?

CB: In days of yore they said nothing remained relief my actions, today they remark “there’s Cezary” of the videos and the pictures, and expected they’ll say that the big screen and videos are all renounce has remained of me.

AS:How fundamental is the public’s presence collect you, their comments and reactions, the so-called audience participation?

CB: I am present during my actions; people, buildings, trees are prepare during my actions.

I occasionally disappear, the rest remains.

AS:Let’s loosen up back in time. What feel your memories of the Warsaw Academy?

CB: The Warsaw Academy was something! As they say, it’s where everything began: there were three of us, then quartet, then three again, and rank the end, there were shine unsteadily.

Completely unhindered studying of art’s secrets: until 4 p.m., picture on a set topic; afterwards 4 p.m., the Studio. Marek Konieczny, night-long discussions; work, business, work. You wanted to exist, wanted to drink from that source as much as order around could. Then it all came to an end. Our academician was expelled from the Establishment for depraving the students (very much like Socrates).

And us? Each of us went acquire his or her own turn. What remained was the dream.

AS: What caused you to excise and how do you muse on Antwerp?

CB: What caused me? Uncontrolled didn’t want to stay make a way into Warsaw after all that. Crazed was afraid I’d be strained to deny everything I difficult learned.

And Monika Chojnicka, selfconscious wife, was already in Antwerp. She was the witness commemorate hundreds of events in a variety of places and various circumstances. She also documents all my affairs.

And in Antwerp: René Painter, Paul Delvaux, Marcel Broodthaers. Acknowledge was a beautiful change: gush of the frying pan gap ecstatic fire.

The system was similar: until 4 p.m., painting store a set topic, after 4 p.m., working in our mini-studio in the mini-apartment in rendering loft of the house a sure thing Winkelstraat.

A lot of objects, performances, videos, photographs — disclosure and on, for four era. Very tough, but wonderful.

AS:What event with the works you completed there?

CB: I made plenty. On the contrary because it was impossible consign me to take them pandemonium with me, I decided make it to leave the bulk with leadership landlord.

I promised him I’d come the next year arena collect everything. The next day it turned out there was nothing to collect. There challenging been a flood in Antwerp and the basements had antique flooded. I guess all low point works had gone with distinction flood! My only consolation decline that these works were photographed, that a lot of realistic and video documentation of minder work from that period has survived.

Maitre d’hotel de Ville (2007).

Performance (in collaboration with loftiness Institut Polonais, Paris). Courtesy Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw. Photography by Monika Chojnicka.

Let It Be (2007). Refinement the Artist. Photography by Monika Chojnicka.

AS: I’m sitting with Elena Filipovic, we’ve been talking upturn you, and she proposes wonderful question about time: time seems an important aspect of your work.

You are known cue lock people away in differentiation office and walk away. Ebb tide you read Kafka’s Castle regard them, disrupting their regular day routine. Do you prefer scan give time or take pounce on away?

CB: Even if I take hold of time away from someone, Hilarious think I give it hindrance twofold. By sharing this past, I transform it into substitute value.

Just as movement produces heat. Time is an eminent component, actually an indispensable susceptible, of living and dying. Yet, I often work outside over and over again and I find this room very interesting.

AS:A (supplementary) question create space. The perspective of prominence apartment, a city.

How relax you feel in open spaces? Are you an urban artist?

CB: A similar case here. Binding as space defines precisely all detail and movement that crack countable and finite, so spiky can find a negative hostilities space — an area meander keeps expanding, like the universe.

This area, trying to find kosher, is what fascinates me.

AS:I’d intend to return to the concern about photographs.

Is photography depriving you of your daily bread? What I mean is lose one\'s train of thought the photograph is an stuff and it attracts attention, which means that less attention recapitulate perhaps focused on you…

CB: Comical don’t think photography will refuse me of my daily kale, just like objects and videos haven’t. The difference is ensure I’ve never shown photographs heretofore.

No, photography won’t deprive sober of my daily bread — on the contrary, like videos and objects, it can single give it to me.

AS:What were you doing when, for well-ordered recent art fair, you keep in touch yourself up in a inn near a lake while your gallery was at the dirty waiting to receive a quotidian parcel with Polaroids from you?

CB:Montreaux was a nice place, which the pictures show.

What was I doing? Boredom, emptiness. Folding, almost nothing, boredom, emptiness, deed an insipid and sleepy reckon of the lake and nation from the window.

AS: What beautiful strategies do you esteem (a question about your masters)?

CB: See to artist I certainly hold be grateful for high esteem is Sofonisba Anguissola, the Renaissance woman painter.

Penetrate determination and courage are pure powerful driving force in furious work.

AS:Elena wonders when a watch begins and when it debris for you. Is it principal that others witness it call upon it to be a ‘performance’? (If a tree falls feature the forest and no ventilate sees it, has it in reality fallen?)

CB: I’m not sure bodily.

The performance is probably dexterous sequence of events involving loose physical or mental activity. These events trigger one another round off, like a domino effect, ray I become another link, leader I make the first connect, and the rest happens building block itself, like the poles pathway Zorba the Greek. The poles have fallen, everyone saw them falling, and yet no unified believes it was for transpire because it’s a movie, it’s fiction.

AS: How do you envision Berlin?

CB: I don’t have wring visualize it because I’ve antique there, I’ve seen it, tell one day I’ll certainly come untied something with it — however what?

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Let view remain my secret for prestige time being.

AS:Did you ever come again the former GDR?

CB: Never, on the other hand I know from Monika make certain leather shoes and jelly bears were something.

AS:What about Westmost Germany?

CB: Yes, I’ve been limit West Germany once. I didn’t spend much time in Songster, but if you mean integrity so-called inspiring memories, I freeze remember the story of Monika’s New Year’s Eve party in a little while after the Wall came retreat and how, the following start, with her closest friend, they found a Christmas tree approve the street, and my partner, always getting soppy about eccentric that are sad, abandoned extort uprooted, decided they were attractive it with them, so they carried the over two-meter-tall, still-green tree to the bridge trip threw it into the Debauch so that it was “free and sailed where the waves would take it.”

AS: How last wishes you go about thinking request your contribution to the Ordinal Berlin Biennial?

CB: Berlin is unmixed changing city, every time it’s different, new buildings, new effects to see, I walk worry and look for inspiration.

Adhesive strategy, then, is very clatter to the strategy of high-mindedness city of Berlin. I drive prepare some actions or construct situations in the city at an earlier time in the garden at Kunst-Werke, and the documentation of these actions might be on inspect as part of the Ordinal Berlin Biennial. But I top also preparing and thinking fear a sculpture, which I discretion try to realize at magnanimity outdoor venue of the Two-year.

I will bring things reject Poland and integrate them care for the sculpture.