How far can you see?

von

Michal Martychowiec

 

Jahr

2013

 

Maße

25 x 140 cm

 

Material

Neon

 

Edition

7 von 10

 

Preis

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How far can you see?

The daily questions is an ongoing series of neon questions, and one is being made every year.

Their form is to be neither understood in the sense of a record of the artist’s quest, nor him leading an audience towards a designated answer. It is not a work in the sense of creation. The in-finite quality of questions is causing, in this case, a situation in which they, and thus the quest of the artist, are being moved onto each of the singularity of the audience, like in a happening.

As within any ongoing body of work, these neons follow the development of the artist’s practice and are often incorporated into a body of other works.

They progressively develop a complete existential condition based on: the individual perspec­tive – through questioning and thus establishing basics for an individual’s existence; and one based on the universal structural perspective – each work becomes a question of time, history and culture, and consequently our place in them. It is moreover clear, each of the questions ad­ditionally holds a treasury of the peripheral contexts of contemporary human conditions.

How far can you see? Is the initial question which is concerned seeing (as a pivotal aspect of art) and was linked directly to the In memory project, where the importance of what is imagined (and thus what is behind the surface) becomes more important than what is seen directly. It uncovers other contexts too: for example problematics of fabricated visual information presented by the media and lack of critical approach of the contemporary audiences towards such in­formation. Of course, these contemporary conditions remain peripheral in this, as well as in the cases of the following works, as it becomes clear the orientation of the existential context is in focus.