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Wojciech Gilewicz: In Practice, 2009 (video) A series of oil paintings were installed outside the SculptureCenter building. The surfaces and forms of the canvases were designed to make them appear completely invisible while they were on site. A video documentating the process of placing the works in their environment encouraged visitors to explore the periphery of the building. Using a map I prepared, visitors were invited to search for the hidden paintings in the surrounding city space. I was primarily interested in challenging visitors` perception of space, reality and their surroundings. (by Wojciech Gilewicz) -------------- fragment of InPractice review by Lori Cole (ArtForum, 02.15.2009) "(...)While artists such as Peter Simensky, Carey Ascenzo, and Amy Patton struggle to reinvent site specificity, Wojciech Gilewicz defies its logic entirely in his deadpan installations-painted imitations of everyday surfaces, intended to go unnoticed in public space. In the video documentation of his project, Gilewicz nonchalantly installs the work in broad daylight, thereby performing the slight visual shifts between the trash on the surface of a garbage can and its painted replica, between a construction panel and its crafted double, and drawing attention to the way art can undermine even its own subversive rhetoric to make site both more and less noticeable." http://www.sculpture-center.org/pressSpecific.htm?id=61697

CV (narrative) Wojciech Gilewicz (1974) Polish American painter, photographer, author of installations and videos graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland (1999) obtaining a Master?s Degree in Painting (Minor in Photography). In his works, which usually combine all these disciplines, Gilewicz explores the phenomenon of illusion and the blurring of distinctions between reality and its artistic representation. He shows also how relative and changeable our perception of the surrounding world is. Gilewicz?s practice invites a reflexion on the mechanisms governing our perception and on the cultural determinants of the way we see things. Selected soloexhibitions: Foksal Gallery Warsaw, Poland (2009); Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis (2008); Museum of Fine Arts Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine (2007); Foksal Gallery Warsaw, Poland (2005), Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe Paris, France (2004), CCA Ujazdowski Castle Warsaw, Poland (2001) Selected groupshows: MoCA Belgrade, Serbia (2009); MoBY Bat Yam, Israel (2009); CoCA, Torun, Poland (2009); Zendai MoMA Shanghai, China (2009); SculptureCenter New York (2009); Pianissimo Milan, Italy (2008); Museum of Art Lodz, Poland (2007); Zacheta National Gallery of Art Warsaw, Poland (2007) Selected artisticresidencies: TAV Taipei, Taiwan (2009); Zendai MoMA Shanghai, China (2008); ISCP New York (2008); Galichnik Macedonia (2005); Fundation Deutsch de la Meurthe Paris, France (2004) --------------- CV (detailed) Wojciech Gilewicz (www.gilewicz.net) EDUCATION 1999 Master?s Degree in Painting, Minor in Photography 1996 - 1999 Academy of Fine Arts Painting Department Warsaw, Poland 1994 - 1996 Academy of Fine Arts Painting Department Poznan, Poland SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected) 2009 Lubelskie Towarzystwo Zachety Sztuk Pieknych, Lublin, Poland 2009 Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2008 Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, USA 2007 Biala Gallery, Lublin, Poland 2007 Museum of Fine Arts, Iwano-Frankiwsk, Ukraine 2007 BWA Gallery Revitalisations, Sanok, Poland 2006 / 2007 Entropia Gallery The Aporia of Painting, Wroclaw, Poland 2005 TR Warszawa, Warsaw, Poland 2005 Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland 2005 WAA (Warsaw Artists? Action) Them, Warsaw, Poland 2004 Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe, Paris, France 2002 Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland 2001 Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle / Laboratorium Gallery City ? Estate ? Studio ? Apartment, Warsaw, Poland 2000 Biala Gallery Lublin, Poland 1999 Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected) 2009 castillo/corrales Hello Goodbye Thank You Again, Paris, France 2009 Museum of Contemporary Art BELGRADE: NONPLACES. Art in public space, Belgrade, Serbia 2009 Aspen Art Museum Monitaur, Aspen, USA 2009 MoBY (Museum of Bat Yam) Factory, Bat Yam, Israel 2009 Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu Lucim żyje, Torun, Poland 2009 Zendai Museum of Modern Art Starting Point: Intrude Art & Life 366, Shanghai, China 2009 SculptureCenter In Practice, New York, USA 2008 Istituto Polacco di Roma Transfert Gallerie Polacche a Roma #6, Roma, Italy 2008 BWA Gallery External artists. OUT OF STH, Wroclaw, Poland 2008 Biala Gallery Remont generalny, Lublin, Poland 2008 White Box Gallery DiVA (Digital & Video Art), New York, USA 2008 Pianissimo Distortion of an Unendurable Reality, Milan, Italy 2008 Istituto Polacco di Roma Transfert Gallerie Polacche a Roma #2, Roma, Italy 2007 appendix2 Artyści polecają się nawzajem, Warsaw, Poland 2007 Museum of Art in Lodz Multi-way Street annex to the exhibition Beautiful Losers, Lodz, Poland 2007 Paul Robeson Galery Imago: The Drama of Self-Portraiture In Recent Photography, Newark, USA 2007 Zacheta National Gallery of Art / Kordegarda Gallery Here a Change Occurs, Warsaw, Poland 2006 Real Art Ways POZA, Hartford, USA 2006 Centre for Contemporary Art Laznia Love and Democracy, Gdansk, Poland 2006 LiveBox at Ravenswood, Chicago, USA 2006 Zacheta National Gallery of Art On Their Own, Warsaw, Poland 2003 National Museum / Krolikarnia, Warsaw, Poland 2002 Bunkier Sztuki, ZPAP Festival of Young Art novart.pl, Cracow, Poland 2001 BWA Galery Goscinna Pracownia Malarstwa Leona Tarasewicza goscinnie w Galerii BWA w Zielonej Gorze, Zielona Gora, Poland