duration: July 14 – September 2, 2022
exhibition finale with artist-curator guided tour: August, 28, at 6:00 PM
admission free, come visit us!
It is said that we are only able to rise to the heights of our existence in the face of love or death, and the energy released during these deepest of experiences reveals the whole truth about ourselves. In the decisive moments of life, we all become lyrical.
The aura of Emil Cioran’s writings echoing in the title of the exhibition is reflected in Nikita Krzyżanowska’s most recent works featured at the 66P Gallery. They add up to tell a story about the absurdity of life, the awareness of one’s own death and the affirmation of a nihilistic attitude, which rejects the constant pursuit of meaning.
The narrative of the entire presentation is spread along two axes. The first is inspired by sepulchral art, vanitas motifs and cemetery waste. The second draws on the most characteristic aspect of Krzyżanowska’s visual language, namely post-vandalism and trashy graffiti aesthetics.
In contrast to many artists of the young generation who explore the theme of death, Krzyżanowska does not confine herself to safe neo-romantic conventions and motifs repeated ad nauseam. Neither does she adhere to the Horatian idea of the immortalising power of art. Instead, she uses her works in the same way Tibetan mandalas may be approached – to familiarise herself with the perspective of the inevitable end and accept the impermanence of all things material. Her paintings are permeated with mythological and subcultural contents. Hooked mainly in the present, like most works created in the urban tissue, they are born out of destruction and aim towards it, programmatically intended as temporary. To paraphrase Paul Valéry, “What has not been ‘fixed’ is nothing. What’s fixed is dead.”
Krzyżanowska is a painter known to many thanks to her distinctive style and participation in underground artistic events. This time she will present her works in a completely different context. One Does Not Become Lyrical Except After a Total Organic Affliction is the first individual exhibition of Krzyżanowska’s works in the white cube, featuring her latest large-format paintings, spatial objects and artistic actions performed directly on walls and ceilings. Moreover, on the opening day there will be concerts of Wrocław rappers, with whom the artist is closely connected. The exhibition will also be accompanied by the defence of her master’s thesis prepared in the studio of Professor Łukasz Huculak of the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław.
Nikita Krzyżanowska was born in 1995, studies at the Faculty of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw in the atelier of Prof. Łukasz Huculak.
Her works, based on gesture and intuition, are created in the spirit of street vandalism aesthetics, in which she finds elements of contemporary mythology. She is associated with the Nihilist Church art group from Wrocław.
She enjoys spontaneous “exhibition situations” in abandoned, hard to reach places. On a daily basis, she cooperates with the posthiphop music underground Bad Trip.
opening: July 14, 2022, at 6:00 PM
and concerts of posthiphop Wroclaw music underground | playing:Gugas, Wodor, Wara, Weenaper, Oorbit, 237, njnp
66P Subjective Institute of Culture | Piekarnia, ul. Księcia Witolda 66
organizer : 66P Subjective Institute of Culture
curator and author of the texts: Paweł Baśnik