english - Tomasz Dobiszewski

Tomasz Dobiszewski
In the proposition a world is as it were put together experimentally....
(As when in the law-court in Paris a motor-car accident is represented by means of dolls)
The quotation from Diaries of Ludwig Wittgenstein has become a pretext for making films
recorded by lenses in the shape of words. Thanks
to this technique, words have been dis- closed in
moving pictures, which however do not represent their referent. The mind jumps between
interpretation of picture and reading of the
word placed in the picture. The work can concoct
a certain conflict that can arise in the spectator’s
mind: how important will really be a word used
in the picture, and how important will be the
picture or sound itself?
In the proposition a world is as it were put together experimentally..., installation, 8 pinhole videos, 8 monitors, Multiplication exhibition, Galeria Sztuki Nowoczesnej, Bydgoszcz 2014
In the proposition a world is as it were put together experimentally...., installation, 8 pinhole videos, 8 monitors, sketch, 2014
If everything is repeating, installation, 3D prints, auto-generated mapped textures, 2014
If everything is repeating
The problem of automation of the photographic process - photography as a mass
production with a reflection on the appropriation of objects by reference to the
methods of representation. On the exhibition are shown the outer layers of objects
“pulled” from the surface by an automated
camera. And printed in 3D a figure of the
monument, using the same application,
the artist photographed again and prints
again. He repeats this process several
times. Each new object loses focus
- details are disappearing and elude.
If everything is repeating, Galeria Fotografii PF, CK Zamek, Poznań 2014
Dolna gallery- sketch for a project
Dolna gallery - sketch for a project, installation, charcoal drawing, 2014
In one simple treatment succeeded to
transform the interior of the gallery in
a three-dimensional drawing. Dobiszewski marked with a thick black line
all the corners altering perceptions of
space. Architectural forms have become
more painting. White exhibition halls
began to resemble a drawing, grew
softer as paper mock-up.
Minor absences catalogue
Dolna gallery - sketch for a project, Minor absences exhibition, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków 2014
Designations
The sentences of Marshall
McLuhan, Stanisław Dróżdż
and Ludwig Wittgenstein
were used as lenses to made
a photographs.
Installation contains pinhole
photographs (silver contact
prints 8” x 10” and 5” x 7”)
and word-shaped lenses.
Designations, Minor absences exhibition, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków 2014
Minor absences catalogue
Designations project website
Designations, Minor absences exhibition, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków 2014
Medium is a Message, Marshall McLuhan
from Designations series
installation, pinhole photography (silver contact prints 8” x 10”), word-shaped lenses
Fixation
The basis for the Fixation exhibition
was transfer of the technique used in
marketing research (*eye-tracking)
into the sphere of art. The artist asked
to participate in the research a group of
dozens of people, who were presented
with the visual stimuli in the form of
films, photographs and illustrations.
The aim of the project was to show
other possibilities to decipher the
reality, to expand the consciousness
of perception of the recipients and to
provoke them to consider perception.
Fixation, Galeria Miejska BWA, Bydgoszcz 2012
Fixation project website
Fixation catalogue
Fixation, Galeria Miejska BWA, Bydgoszcz 2012
Temporary internet photos
When browsing any website all images are
stored in memory of computer and automatically in real time printed, and then hung
on the wall. When you browse the internet
a spectator unknowingly becomes a kind of
wizard of random photographs, it becomes
co-creator of the exhibition.
Temporary internet photos, interactive installation, internet cafe, printer, photography, 2012 / fot. Marek Gardulski
Temporary internet photos, Photomonth 2012, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków 2012 / fot. Marek Gardulski
Temporary internet files
Surfing around the World Wide Web,
we unknowingly gather images which
document that journey. They are stored
in an album of our virtual travels – to
the Temporary Internet Files folder.
Photographs, graphics, animations
seem to be postcards, because we’re
not their authors, we just unknowingly
collect them. Just like we don’t know
the person who made that postcard,
we’re unable to determine whether
a given situation took place in reality
or it is a creation of a fictitious world.
During the virtual travels we don’t
search in the images we watch for
the signs of the bygone, we just
find meanings and symbols –
time and place go into oblivion.
Temporary internet files, installation, video, digital frames, 2009
Temporary internet files, One dog exhibition, Galeria Miejska BWA, Bydgoszcz 2010
Movemental
Objects in photographed rooms are dislocated, the space is blown and
fragmented. Making an effort is required to rearrange the image and put
it back together into a whole. Imagined movements which we make in our
minds reflect our knowledge of the world and result from our experience
in perceiving images. The level of dislocation of objects in a photograph
can vary, and still it becomes clear that gradually, with practice we gain
great ability in rearranging images in our heads. Thus a photograph as
a complete image will exist only in our minds, photographic reality
will turn out to be virtual...
Movemental 1-10, Against seeing exhibition, Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Kraków 2009 / photo: Zosia Waligóra
Movemental 01, archive print on photopaper, dibond, plexiglas, 100x100 cm, edition 4 + AP, 2009
Movemental 03, archive print on photopaper, dibond, plexiglas, 100x100 cm, edition 4 + AP, 2009
Movemental 06, archive print on photopaper, dibond, plexiglas, 100x100 cm, edition 4 + AP, 2009
Movemental 05, archive print on photopaper, dibond, plexiglas, 100x100 cm, edition 4 + AP, 2009
Hidden trips
Collection of undeveloped films, exposed during trips in years 2006-2009.
Images recorded on films potentially
exist, it seems they can be displayed.
However they are not to be seen.
We can only listen to the sounds the
artist recorded during his trips. Based on
these sounds only we have to create our
own image of locations, events, views
and people. In our memories different
sensual stimuli are mixed creating
a general impression.
Sabina Czajkowska
Hidden trips, Against seeing exhibition, Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Kraków 2009 / photo: Zosia Waligóra
Hidden trips 2006-2008 [Zurich, Boston, Paris, St.Michel, Skoki, Lubomierz], photographic films exposed undeveloped, 2006-2008
Hidden trips Wilno 2008, photographic film exposed undeveloped, MP3 player, plexiglass, PCV, 2008
Hidden trips - Kraków 2009, photographic film exposed undeveloped, MP3 player, plexiglass, PCV, 2009
Memorabilia
The viewer entering the exhibition
space is suddenly attacked by a series
of images that are foreign to him,
that are coming from someone else’s
world, that are a reflection, a metaphorical flashback of the memory
of the author, who invades our mind
with his past. The flash brings out
the black out of the white and in
a short second the image is restored
in the form of an afterimage.
Memorabilia, interactive installation / flashboxes / photography / movement sensors, 2005,2008
Memorabilia, Inner Spaces Gallery, Poznań 2005
Memorabilia, Teraz! exhibition, Centre of Contemporary Art “Elektrownia”, Radom 2008
Timing
The progress bar is a visual signalling device reflecting the progress
of work performed by a machine. In
fact, we do not know what is actually
happening, what activities have been
performed and what remains to be
done. We often anxiously observe
such progress bars on our screens
rushing it “go on!”; unfortunately we
are unable to speed the process up.
We have no influence on the figures.
Video amusingly draws our attention
to what technology hides from us, at
the same time indicating the limitations of a stable picture frame. We
will not see nor learn about anything
more than what we see.
Sabina Czajkowska
Timing, video, 2009
Timing 1,2,3, video, 2009
Re-medium
Tomasz Dobiszewski in his work “Re-medium” creates a camera out of a pill pack.
The space in which the image appears is where the pill lay just a moment ago.
The image might be then a vision after the pill has been taken, or this vision
might be the consequence of taking the image. The author, for whom, pinhole
photography has always been an uncovering medium, is trying to convince us,
by putting instructions next to the photographs of how to use them in the shape
of an informative brochure added to the medicine, that during the times of
“visual pauperisation” the images will still appear, even if only as placebo.
Marek Noniewicz
Re-medium, Polygonum exhibition, Galeria Miejska BWA, Bydgoszcz 2009
Re-medium C01, pinhole photography, silver contact print, 18x13 cm in frame 30x24 cm, edition 10, 2002-2005
Re-medium C02, pinhole photography, silver contact print, 18x13 cm in frame 30x24 cm, edition 10, 2002-2005
Re-medium B02, pinhole photography, silver contact print, 18x13 cm in frame 30x24 cm, edition 10, 2002-2005
Re-medium, lens A, 10,5x7,8 cm in frame 24x18 cm, edition 10, 2002-2005
Re-medium, leaflet, A5, 2002-2005
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Re-medium, cameras built out of a pill packs, pinhole photography, silver contact print, edition 10, 2002-2005
Palingenesis
A pinhole camera placed on
the ceiling registers the view
of rooms where little furniture
was installed on the walls. In
this way two different scales of
the objects photographed clash
merging into illusory blend of
the real and the staged.
from Palingenesis series, pinhole photography, silver contact print, 18x13 cm in frame 30x24 cm, edition 10, 2004
from Palingenesis series, pinhole photography, silver contact print, 18x13 cm in frame 30x24 cm, edition 10, 2004
Pinocycle
The author travels around the city
with a camera installed on the
bicycle frame. This way of shooting
from the top takes some unpredictable effect. On the photographs we
see the vehicle frame, blurry hands
of the artist, a curved line of the horizon and irregular streaks of light,
but in this case only the clear bike
is the subject of photos?
Pinocycle, pinhole photography, silver contact print, map, edition 4 + AP, 2004
from Pinocycle series, pinhole photography, silver contact print, 13x18 cm, map 30x18 cm, edition 4 + AP, 2004
from Pinocycle series, pinhole photography, silver contact print, 13x18 cm, map 30x18 cm, edition 4 + AP, 2004
exhibitions [chosen]
Bio
Tomasz Dobiszewski (born in 1977) in 2005 graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, from the Intermedia
Photography Department directed by Krzysztof J. Baranowski and Stefan Wojnecki. He lives and works in Wrocław,
Poland.
He formulates his expressions using photography, video and multimedia installations. The area of interest for the
artist is time and space, limitations of the viewer’s perception, illusion and problems of participations. In works
which are evidence of artistic taming of the media he does not stop at purely conceptual cognitive strategies but
enriches the discourse by non-intellectual elements such as sensual impressions or intuitive cognition. He connects
messages readable for different human senses and by experimenting with the physiology of seeing or hearing; on
the one hand aims at fuller, more complete transfer, on the other mischievously or ironically deprives viewers of the
possibility to get to know the essence of the work.
Works in the The Bunkier Sztuki Collection in Krakow (PL), Palace of the Governors Photo Archives at the New Mexico
History Museum (USA), collection of the Gallery of Modern Art of Leon Wyczółkowski’s Museum (PL) and in private collections.
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
Michał Jędrzejewski i preTEkSTy przestrzeni, Test Gallery, Warszawa (PL)
Przywidzenia, OFFO Festival, Epicentrum Gallery, Jastrzębie Zdrój (PL)
Alchemical Ensemble: New Visions in Historic Photographic Processes, Sidney Larson Gallery, Columbia MO (USA)
Moving pictures, Fabularna, Katowice (PL)
The Entropy of Art: Catalogue, In situ, Sokołowsko (PL)
ZPAF exhibition, Mała Galeria, Toruń (PL)
Photosynthesis / The Entropy of Art: A Catalogue Photography, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław (PL)
Multiplication, Modern Art Gallery, Bydgoszcz (PL)
If everything is repeating, Galeria Fotografii PF, CK Zamek, Poznań (PL)
Poetics of Light, New Mexico History Museum, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe (USA)
Minor absences, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (PL)
Designations, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (PL)
The Entropy of Art: Catalogue, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław (PL)
Objective/Subjective, Media Faculty Gallery WST, Zabrze (PL)
Meanwhile, Dance Base, Fringe Festival, Edinburgh (Scotland)
Socio-political Poster, Poster Box Gallery, Wrocław (PL)
Meanwhile, Day Tripper Action, ENSBA&CNSMD, Lion (France)
Photographs..., Obok ZPAF Gallery, Warszawa (PL)
Fixation, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL)
Objective/Subjective, ZPAF Gallery, Katowice (PL)
Temporary Internet Photos, Photomonth 2012, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (PL)
Diversity of view, Museum of Photography, Bydgoszcz (PL)
IN OUT Festival, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk (PL)
Unik, Kledio Gallery, Tirana (AL)
Synesthesia Festival, CK Agora, Wroclaw (PL)
Polygonum 2, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL)
IN OUT Festival, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk (PL)
Languorous Happenings, Modern Art Gallery, Bydgoszcz (PL)
One dog, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL)
HALLO!, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL)
Where are we going, DKP Gallery, Wilno (LT)
Shadowplay, Mazovian Centre of Contemporary Art “Elektrownia”, Radom (PL)
Until do Us Part, Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Kraków (PL)
One dog, Vilnius Railway Station Gallery, Wilno (LT)
Artventure, Saarlandisches Kunstlerhaus, Saarbrucken (D)
Against Seeing, Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Kraków (PL)
Show me Yours, Mannheimer Kunsverein, Mannheim (D)
Now! Artists of Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Mazovian Centre of Contemporary Art “Elektrownia”,
Radom (PL)
Digital Meat, ZPAF Gallery, Katowice (PL)
Talk to me. More, Studio BWA, Wroclaw (PL)
II Festival of Pinhole Photography OFFO, Jastrzebie-Zdrój (PL)
Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography, Brant Gallery, Boston (USA)
Light Sensitivity, Galeria pod Atlantami, Walbrzych (PL)
Polygonum, Municipal Gallery BWA, Bydgoszcz (PL)
Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography, University Art Gallery – University of Massachu-
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
setts Dartmouth, New Bedford (USA)
Shreads of time and scraps of memory, Photography Gallery Fokus, Siedlce (PL)
Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston (USA)
Pinholes In Action, Galeria Dzialan, Warszawa (PL)
Re-vision – II Warsaw Festival of Art Photography, Galeria Sztuki Mediów ASP, Warszawa (PL)
Pinhole Photography from Z. Tomaszczuk’s Collection, Wroclaw Non Stop Festival, Dom Edyty Stein, Wroclaw (PL)
Picture of the Year 2005, Hotel Europejski, Warszawa (PL)
Memorabilia, inSPIRACJE Festival, Amfilada Gallery, Szczecin (PL)
Camera obscura, ZPAF Gallery, Katowice (PL)
Presentation, Brda Gallery, Bydgoszcz (PL)
Exhibition of Artists from Bydgoszcz, Patras (GR)
Object Hunting - Biennale of Photography, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznan (PL)
Photovision, Wschodnia Gallery, Lodz (PL)
Pinhole Photography from Z. Tomaszczuk’s Collection, International Photography Festival, Lodz (PL)
Crossing time, crossing spaces, CSW Inner Spaces, Poznan (PL)
Retransmission Festival, Gdansk, Warszawa, Lodz (PL)
ESC., Museum of Artists, Lodz (PL)
Biennale of Photography, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL)
Exibition of Dwarf Photography, Bydgoszcz, Swinoujscie (PL)
ISCI – on the other side of screen, Kolonia artystów, PGR_ART, Gdansk (PL)
Pinhole Photography from Z. Tomaszczuk’s Collection, Galeria pod Schodami, Kraków (PL)
Offensiva Film Festival, Wroclaw (PL)
Cialosc, Spiz7 Gallery, Gdansk (PL)
Konstruction3 [dekonstruction], FUgg – Festival Inner Spaces, CSW Inner Spaces, Poznan (PL)
Hi-story, Gallery 011, Torun (PL)
Forma nova oculos terret, Factory, Lodz (PL)
Biennale of Photography, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL)
Absinth, Level -1, CSW Inner Spaces, Poznan (PL)
La dolce vita, VIII Festiwal Inner Spaces, Poznan (PL)
SCHOLARSHIPS / RESIDENCIES / AWARDS:
2012
2010
2008
2007
2006
2004
2003
Scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (PL)
Plat(t)form 2010, Fotomuseum, Winterthur (CH)
Member and organiser of SZKLARNIA Photography review, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL)
Promotional Film Contest, Wroclaw (PL) [special award]
Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography, Boston (USA)
Promotional Film Contest, Wroclaw (PL) [second award]
Photography workshops, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Bialystok (PL)
Award in Edward Hartwig’s Photo Award, Lublin (PL) [first award]
Offensiva Film Festival, Wroclaw (PL) [special award]
publications, texts:
Amy Wilder, Blurring the Lines: Alchemical Ensemble show focuses on obscure processes (w:) Columbia Daily
Tribune (25.10.2015)
Jeśli wszystko się powtarza w Centrum Kultury Zamek, Magazyn Szum (23.08.2014)
Karolina Kolenda, Ślad jest śladem, jest śladem, jest śladem (w:) Fragile (22.02.2014)
Piotr Zdybał, Dramat nieustajacej semiozy (w:) Magazyn Szum (03.03.2014)
Julita Kwaśniak, Szept wspomnień. Wystawa prac Tomasza Dobiszewskiego (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza (18.02.2014)
Anna Stec, Miara nieuporządkowania – katalog entropii sztuki (w:) Obieg.pl (31.12.2013)
Tomasz Dobiszewski, Krzysztof Siatka (w:) Desygnaty, Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (20.12.2013)
Krzysztof Siatka, Raport o postrzeganiu, O.PL, 4 grudnia 2012
Tomasz Dobiszewski, Fiksacje (w:) Fragile. Pismo Kulturalne, listopad 2012
kaba, Artysta niczym Big Brother? (w:) Express Bydgoski, Bydgoszcz 4 listopada 2012
Adrianna Babijczuk, Dobiszewski: spójrz tam, gdzie zwykle nie patrzysz (w:) Art & Business 2 listopada 2012
Fiksacje (w:) Notes.na.6.tygodni #80
Nowa wystawa w bwa. Oglądaj „Fiksacje” Dobiszewskiego (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Bydgoszcz 2 listopada 2012
Tomasz Dobiszewski, Fiksacje (w:) Bydgoski Informator Kulturalny, listopad 2012
Emilia Iwanciw, Wystawa: Od etyki po technologie (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Bydgoszcz 15 listopada 2010
Krzysztof Siatka, Movemental (w:) Take me, nr 06/2010
Agnieszka Kwiecień, Shadowplay – o swoim nowym projekcie opowiada Tomasz Dobiszewski, O.PL, 25 luty 2010
Dobiszewski zagra z cieniem w Elektrowni (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Radom 18 lutego 2010
Tomasz Dobiszewski, Ankieta La Biennale di Venezia, O.PL, 16 listopada 2009
Katarzyna Kamińska, Dzieje grzechu, czyli rzecz o grzesznej miłości (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Wrocław 19 stycznia 2009
Łukasz Gazur, Podszewka Teraźniejszości (w:) Sztuka.pl – grudzień/styczeń 2008/2009 nr 12/13
Krzysztof Siatka, Teraz! Artyści Galerii Foto-Medium-Art (w:) Kwartalnik rzeźby Orońsko nr 4 (73) 2008
Takiej wystawy zdjęć jeszcze u nas nie było (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Bydgoszcz 03 września 2008
Dorota Suwalska, Camera obscura, odwrócony obraz rzeczywistości (w:) Kwartalnik Wyspa nr 3(3) październik 2007
Zbigniew Tomaszczuk, Made in Poland, współczesna fotografia otworkowa (w:) Kwartalnik Fotografia nr 23 / 2007
Bydgoscy fotografowie wystawiali się w Ameryce (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Bydgoszcz 08 marca 2007
Shawn Hill, Deliberate Developments, Old Techniques (w:) Art New England June/July 2007
Chloe Zimmerman, Catching a blurry glimpse of Poland (w:) Tufts Daily 2/9/07
Fotografia oworkowa w Bostonie (w:) Life of Polonia 02/16/2007
Marta „Eloy” Cichocka, Sztuka, Tekstylia Bis - Słownik młodej polskiej kultury / 2006
Sabina Czajkowska, Palingenesis Tomasz Dobiszewskiego (w:) Arteon nr 11(79) / 2006
Tomasz Dobiszewski, Dominika Mróz, Dwa projekty (w:) Kwartalnik Fotografia nr 21 / 2006
Finał konkursu „Obraz roku 2005” (w:) Art&Business - 3 / 2006
Festiwal Fotografii Kreacyjnej inSPIRACJE (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Szczecin 30 marca 2006
Ogólnopolski Konkurs Fotograficzny w Pałacu Młodzieży (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Bydgoszcz 27 stycznia 2006
Michał Lasota, Polowanie bez mapy (w:) Exit - nr3 (63) 2005
Zbigniew Tomaszczuk, Przestrzeń zamknięta w kadry fotografii (w:) Przestrzenie fotografii - antologia tekstów /
2005
Wydarzenia (w:) Pozytyw nr 11 (64) listopad 2004
Zbigniew Tomaszczuk, Kilka uwag na temat kolekcjonowania fotografii (w:) Gazeta Antykwaryczna nr11(104) 2004
Zbigniew Tomaszczuk (w:) Fotografie. Fotografia otworkowa z kolekcji Z.T., Typoscript / 2004
Grzegorz Józefczuk, Rozstrzygnięcie konkursu im. Edwarda Hartwiga (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Lublin 23 listopada
2004
XII Festiwal Inner Spaces (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Poznań 23 września 2004
Gdzie warto się wybrać w czwartek i piątek w Poznaniu (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Poznań 22 września 2004