{"id":27292,"date":"2024-07-04T12:58:06","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T10:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/66p.pl\/?post_type=wystawa&p=27292"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:26:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:26:53","slug":"proof-of-concept-norman-leto-2","status":"publish","type":"wystawa","link":"https:\/\/66p.pl\/en\/wystawa\/proof-of-concept-norman-leto-2","title":{"rendered":"Proof of Concept.<\/b><\/br>Norman Leto"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Proof of Concept.<\/b>
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curator:<\/strong> Stach Szab\u0142owski
exhibition duration:<\/strong> 20.07-14.09.2024<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The exhibition is part of the Artistic Scene of the 24th edition mBank New Horizons IFF.<\/p>

Proof of Concept<\/em> is a project that draws on the figure of a studio visit. Through the exhibition we visit Norman Leto in his atelier, or rather in the two ateliers that he uses in his work. In one, he is developing his most recent cinematic venture, a film under the working title Pilot 9_11<\/em>. The artist gives us an insight into his project-in-process, showing related film sketches, tests of technical solutions and fragments of sequences. In the second atelier, Norman works on his easel paintings.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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We visit Norman in his studio seven years after the premiere of Photon<\/em> \u2013 his last film, which won awards at the New Horizons Festival and the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. Since then, Norman has been working on Pilot 9_11<\/em>, which will take several years more to complete. As was the case with the artist\u2019s previous feature, the new project is primarily set in the virtual realm. Although the film industry is based on teamwork, Norman reduces this aspect to a minimum \u2013 he models the digital material like a sculptor working alone in his studio. In Pilot 9_11<\/em>, Norman returns to the attack on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 \u2013 an event that symbolically finished the 20th century and ushered in the unstable world we live in today. However, the film sequences shown as part of the Proof of Concept<\/em> exhibition do not provide any insight into the plot. They function as autonomous video works, outside the narrative of the main story.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Norman Leto, frame from the video PILOT 9_11 Proof of Concept,<\/i> 2018<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The video projections at 66P are juxtaposed with Norman\u2019s easel paintings. While creating their iconography, the artist experimented with artificial intelligence generators. Although none of the paintings refers to the film, they were all created in parallel to his work on it. The artist has never severed his links with the visual arts field, and neither has he interrupted his painting practice.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Norman Leto, Trainspotter<\/i>, oil on fibreboard, 2023<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Proof of Concept<\/em> closes with a video entitled Sailor Update, One Decade Later [Vlog].<\/em> In it, the artist returns to the protagonist of his mystified literary autobiography and debut film titled Sailor. The resemblance of this figure to Norman Leto is intentional and not coincidental, but sometimes deceptive. This construct, agent-doppelganger or proxy has been appearing in Norman\u2019s stories to perform various philosophical or narrative tasks. Resurrected after 15 years, the protagonist returns to tell us about a day in the life of Norman Leto.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Norman Leto, frame from the video Sailor Update, One Decade Later [Vlog],<\/i> 2021<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Sailor Update <\/em>is a dialectical device linking the poles between which the exhibition is set: the two studios, the documentary and the feature, the physical and the virtual. It also highlights the relationship between painting and film in Norman\u2019s practice \u2013 these alternating disciplines are elements that keep the creative process in balance and expressions of freedom, which has remained a fundamental category for Norman Leto since his debut.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Biographies<\/b><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Norman Leto<\/strong> (born \u0141ukasz Banach) is a painter, director and self-taught artist working in the field of new media. One of the most original and interesting contemporary artists using advanced 3D technologies, he works at the intersection of science and art. His reflections and artistic activities often focus on the human being. In 2009 and 2010 he completed the autobiographical novel Sailor and the feature film under the same title. In 2012, he began work on his second feature film, Photon<\/em>, which premiered at international documentary film festivals: CPH:DOX (Copenhagen 2017) and HotDocs (Toronto 2017); it had its Polish premiere in the main competition section of the 17th T-Mobile New Horizons IFF. He has had a number of solo exhibitions (including Negative Aspects of Excessive Freedom at Age 26<\/em>, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2007; Buttes Monteaux 3, National Museum in Krakow, Krakow, 2009; Swot<\/em>, Kolonie Gallery, Warsaw, 2013) and participated in numerous group exhibitions (including Perfect Summer, New Media Artists<\/em>, gallery vertexlist, New York, 2008; Establishment, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2008; We Would Like You To Know That We Are Not Them<\/em>, lokal_30 at the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 2009; Collections. International Collection of the Centre for Contemporary Art,<\/em> CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2009).<\/p>

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Stach Szab\u0142owski<\/strong> (b. 1973) is a curator, art critic and writer. He graduated from the Institute of Art History of the University of Warsaw. From 1998 to 2016 he was associated with the Centre for Contemporary Art \u2013 Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw. In the course of his career, he has created or co-created dozens of exhibitions, art festivals and artistic projects in Poland and abroad. As a curator at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, he accompanied his peers as they made their artistic debut in the newly post-communist Poland, depicting the reality of the country after the political transformation. In his curatorial practice, he pays particular attention to the anthropological perspective on art, the intersection of film and the visual arts, and narrative strategies in the visual arts. He combines his curatorial practice with art criticism. He has edited a number of monographs and exhibition catalogues and written texts on art both in specialist magazines and in mainstream press, includning Gazeta Wyborcza,\u00a0Dziennik Gazeta Prawna,\u00a0\u017bycie Warszawy,\u00a0Architektura-Murator,\u00a0Fluid, Machina,\u00a0Newsweek Polska,\u00a0Wprost<\/em>,\u00a0and Obieg.pl.<\/p>

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The 66P team and collaborators<\/b><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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organisation, production and implementation:<\/strong> Renata Jarodzka, Rafa\u0142 Jarodzki, Piotr Lisowski, Mirek \u0141ucko\u015b, Anna Krukowska, Mirek Chudy, Danuta Krzywicka, Teresa Haj\u0142asz-Golonka, Bartosz Gierczak, Micha\u0142 Czapli\u0144ski, Patrycja Ucieklak
promotion:<\/strong> Fest Promo
graphic design:<\/strong> Karolina Pietrzyk
translations:<\/strong> Olesia Bavdys, Karol Waniek<\/p>\n

partner:<\/strong> 24th mBank New Horizons IFF
media patrons:<\/strong> MINT, SZUM, NN6T<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The exhibition features pre-premiere footage from Leto’s new feature film, which is currently in production, as well as images created using artificial intelligence. Juxtaposing films and video installations with paintings, Proof of Concept<\/i> feels like a visit to the artist’s studio in a gallery, allowing the audience to witness Norman\u2019s exploration of the human condition in a transhumanist reality. 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