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2002-03-13
- Ukraine
Ukrainian presentation at the XXV Bienal de São Paulo
11.03.2002, Kyiv
Curator of the Ukrainian presentation Jerzy Onuch has invited Saskatoon (Canada) based artist Taras Polataiko to present his project “Bird™s Eye View” at the XXV Bienal de São Paulo.
The “Bird™s Eye View” project is based on the Bienal™s curatorial concept of the “11 Metropolises”.
The show will open as an empty space with 11 mirrors mounted on the walls of the space. At the commencement of the Bienal 11 local labourers will be contracted to gradually cover the mirrors by piecing together the jigsaw puzzles, made of 11 infrared satellite photos of the 11 metropolises. The labourers will tend to the process on a daily basis until the puzzles are completed, so that by the close of the Bienal there are eleven abstractions in the space. Divorced from their content, these “abstract” images will be reminiscent of Gerhard Richter™s paintings.
Through the images, materials and process the artist intends to draw attention to the marginalised population created by world-wide urban progress, concurrently exploring the problem of relationship between the content of the image and its formal properties. The project will bring up the question of the nature of the image in contemporary culture as well as that of the artist™s relationship with the context, narrative, and the agendas of the art world.
Taras Polataiko is an Ukrainian Canadian artists, born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, and living in Saskatoon, Canada, since 1989. Some of his projects are “Glare” (1994), “Mole” (1997), “Cradle” (1999), “HIM” (1999-2002).
Jerzy Onuch is the Director of the Center for Contemporary Art in Kyiv, Ukraine, since 1997. Born in Lublin, Poland, lives in Kyiv and Toronto. Some of his latest curatorial projects are “ID” (1999), “Painting” (2000), “Brand “Ukrainian” (2001-2002).
Further information can be obtained from Jerzy Onuch at e-mail: art@cca.kiev.ua.
The project is supported by the Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, Saskatchewan Arts Board and The Canada Council.
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