From the series 'For Modernists' (B), 2007

Krzysztof Cichosz’s ‘untitled’ photo installation from the ‘For the modernists (version B)’ series was created in 2007. This is a characteristic work by this author, who developed his own, unique method of creating photographic works at the end of the 1980s. Describing his works, he says: ‘[My] photo installations are an open series of independent objects - made according to the method I have been working on since the late eighties. Every object consists of many elements made from transparent, photographic material, assembled spatially in several layers (from three to five, usually four).
‘Archetype images’ taken from the iconosphere around us: handbooks, encyclopedias, newspapers, etc., form the foundation of these elements. I then subject these images to the complex process of constructive destruction, decomposing them through specially designed ‘rasters’ (graphical structures) into many parts of transparent material. After these elements are assembled in space, they form large - ‘almost’ abstract - objects. The original images can only be discerned after finding an appropriately distant point of view - thanks to the synthesizing properties of the viewing mind...
By colliding the symbolism of selected ‘image archetypes’ with the symbolism of the ‘rasters’ destroying them, I try to encourage the viewer to follow in the footsteps of my reflections on the world surrounding us...’ (after Krzysztof Cichosz, http://www.cichosz.art.pl).
The technique employed by Cichosz endows photographic images with three-dimensionality. The author’s use of reproductions of well-known works is not just a simple duplication of an image. As Krzysztof Jurecki writes: ‘He operates with meta-narration in certain works, showing human history in a new, neopictorial way, sometimes warning against the threat of war and destruction of culture ('Executed [by firing squad]...'). The subject matter of later works was dedicated to symbols of contemporary pop culture (Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol) as well as to the culture-generating role of cinema. The ‘Hybrid portraits’ exhibition took place in 2002, where he presented computer-generated, unreal portraits of randomly assembled fragments of the faces of nine ancient philosophers. The raster based on the code of the computer’s text editor plays an important role, as in all works of this type’ (Krzysztof Jurecki, Krzysztof J. Cichosz, www.culture.pl, 2004).

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