Michał Budny
Michał Budny’s minimal interventions and his inconspicuous and subtle installations form a distinct counterpoint to spectacular. Like in this year’s exhibition at Kunstverein Düsseldorf, what is at stake at Svit is space itself. The aim is not an institutional critique but the putting forward of the inconspicuous materiality of the gallery itself, which during the usual gallery traffic remains in the background – light, shadows, crevices, unevenness of the walls. Budny either directly intervenes into the physical space of the gallery to emphasize its details or places a minimalist object as an intuitive commentary on its materiality.
- Artycok.tv presents "Michał Budny"00:00:01.692
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- Svit Gallery, Prague00:00:06.078
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- So this is Svit Gallery, welcome to the exhibition of Michał Budny00:00:34.260
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- whose installation of works has been opened today.00:00:40.261
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- These works are his most recent ones, which he already has00:00:47.994
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- presented at several venues abroad.00:00:50.440
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- We are quite happy that we finally managed to invite00:00:53.806
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- Michał to have an exhibition here in our space.00:00:57.730
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- I have a bit of personal relationship to the exhibition00:01:02.504
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- because I met Michał several years ago in Warsaw00:01:04.698
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- and I've always wanted to show his work to Prague's audience.00:01:09.181
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- At that time, Michał still worked more with objects00:01:14.025
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- creating various paper sculptures.00:01:20.284
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- His work then evolved into its new form.00:01:26.391
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- Some of the works were produced here on the spot,00:01:29.196
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- One that Michał did specifically for our space00:01:32.127
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- was about our characteristic wooden floor. Since we moved here00:01:36.426
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- a year ago, we haven't done anything about it.00:01:42.612
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- And now with this show it finally changed.00:01:46.422
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- Michał covered the floor with his own painting,00:01:50.261
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- you can see it in the preceding room.00:01:55.496
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- This work here is a result of this process.00:01:58.698
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- an imprint of the floor put here on the wall.00:02:03.197