Michal Martychowiec (born 1987) is a contemporary artist. He creates
conceptual series of photographs, films, drawings, neons, objects, and mix-media installations and environments. He was awarded Distinction in MA Fine Art from
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in
London.
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artdaily.org He is a visiting lecturer at the Russian Institute of History of Art (
Russian Academy of Sciences) in
St. Petersburg and
China Academy of Art in
Hangzhou. He lives in
Berlin.
Work
Martychowiec’s oeuvre consists of mixed media practice designed in larger series. It is thus always developed hermeneutically around an expanded topic. A new field of his invention is also recreation of avatars and other personas.
Polish Sculpture Center
The Centre of Polish Sculpture ( pl, Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej) in Orońsko, near Radom, Poland, is a museum housed at Józef Brandt’s 19th-century manor house. The centre's collections comprise 621 sculptures, installations and other art forms o ...
''The urge to create visions 1929-2017''. Oronsko, 2017. .
Through this practice, characterized by the diversity of the media used, Martychowiec aims to explore the condition and the possibilities of contemporary human existence. His thinking revolves around history, invention and
autopoiesis of historical narratives and thus also exploration and occasionally comical recomposition of cultural symbols and archetypes.
Furthermore, Martychowiec merges artistic and curatorial practices through a twofold arrangement of his oeuvre. At first, he develops projects as individual narratives within a certain field of inquiry. At the same time, these projects inform one another and their elements can be reenacted and incorporated, through a curatorial activity, into later works, where they acquire symbolic qualities.
Martychowiec’s inventions are based primarily on Occidental and Oriental
philosophy
Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...
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anthropology,
art and cultural
history, universal historical reflections, the history of religion, literature, archeology and, of course, our contemporary culture and communication analysis.
References
External links
personal website MMS2 BerlinGallery De Sarthe Beijing/Honk KongBublitz
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Polish contemporary artists
Polish photographers
British installation artists
Photographers from Berlin
British mixed media artists
Living people
1987 births