Curatorial Notes

 

Einstein claimed that imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited, while imagination knows no boundaries. The same is true of the work of Dobiesław Gała, the Krakow artist and teacher who conquered the world art market in the discipline of contemporary sculpture in less than five years.

The reliefs he successfully creates are sophisticated hybrids of drawing and sculpture, the realization of artistic ideas about phenomena occurring both in the material external world and in the most personal one, which individually takes place in human consciousness. Both are subject to constant change and destruction. It is on the one hand the effect of conscious human action and on the other - time.

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What does the Artist want to communicate to the contemporary viewer? Well, a lot. Both through the subject matter and the unusual form of representation itself. Dobiesław Gała is able to skillfully show these phenomena by giving them the form of a multidimensional, seemingly frozen relief that strikes with a blaze of colors. Each centimeter of the performance constitutes a separate space in which subsequent processes take place.

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 The works of Dobiesław Gała presented in Venice have a deep ecological message and are a response to the processes taking place in the world and in human consciousness. They warn against the effects of destructive human activity and using a perfectly developed form, the effect of which is a well-thought-out visual composition, they communicate the scale of environmental degradation, which, due to irresponsible human activity, is slowly turning into frozen structures.

Zone 79, Disrupted Fluidity, Poles of Inaccessibility, Structures of Information, Epicentres, Circles of Time and Events, Landing Sites, Rivers of Information, Disappearing Traces of Events, Dark Side of the Moon, Frozen Steel Rivers are the titles of works that will be presented at the exhibition in Venice. They are also artistic interpretations of processes and phenomena, shrouded in mystery and in many cases functioning in the social imagination as a myth.

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Despite such a catastrophic vision, Dobiesław Gała introduces an element of hope that results from the enormous power of nature's regeneration, so this process can not only be reversed but also stopped at a certain stage. Hence the intensity of the green blue colour (pigment) and its reinforcement with light, as well as the use of other artistic methods (light illumination of fragments of works), aimed at enhancing the effect of depth in which subsequent structures are revealed.

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He achieves this by using the right mix of media. Dobiesław Gała gave his thoughts the costume of a relief, a seemingly frozen sculptural form that comes to life in a different way each time, endlessly building new worlds that each recipient can freely interpret. Only the imagination reaches them.

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