7:00 - 8:00pm
Paul Morgan and Claire Zakiewicz Closing Reception and Performance
Thursday May 30
7:00 - 9:00pm Hector Canonge and Claire Zakiewicz ARTI3160
Salizzada Malipiero
San Marco,
3209/A - 3160
Venice, Italy
ARTI3160 Gallery presents IMPRECISION: The Aesthetics of Failure featuring new works by Claire Zakiewicz. Please join the artist for the closing reception and a series of performances with accompanying artists including, Hector Canonge, on Thursday May 30, 2019.
IMPRECISION: The Aesthetics of Failure examines the tensions between failure and perfection: the techniques, limitations and the implications. "In my drawings, I've noticed that aiming for something ugly can produce beauty. Failure creates new pathways; it disrupts prescribed patterns," says Zakiewicz. "Drawing blindfolded with one’s attention on something other than the drawing, almost, always produces a quality of line, unity and balance of shapes - even - or more prominently, as control moves further away."
Zakiewicz asks: What is failure? How does failure relate to imperfection? We often think of failure as the opposite of success, however, in many ways, failure can be associated with eliminating expectation or a state of not "consciously" aiming for pure perfection. Embracing "failure" per se can often lead to a more balanced symmetry. So, is failure the resolution?
Alongside Zakiewicz's solo exhibition, a selection of her video works are featured in Alive In the Universe curated by Caroline Wiseman and David Baldry at the Palazzo Pesaro Parafava, Venice. The exhibition includes artists from varying disciplines such as Sarah Lucas, Julian Simmons, Maggi Hambling and Eileen Haring Woods. For more information click here.
A detailed narration on Zakiewicz's experience in Venice has been published in the form of diary entries in Creatrix and ART511 magazine. To follow the artist visit here.
We are excited to announce that Claire Zakiewicz’s series of animated drawings will be featured in the two-day visual art and street food ART EAT Festival, located at the Ipswich Waterfront, England, from September 21-22, 2019. The festival will include a multi-disciplinary vocabulary of artists, working across all creative mediums, with a focus on primary sensations such as sight, sound and taste.
Zakiewicz’s symmetrical motions, which incorporate the techniques and styles of both stop-motion film and documentation, titled Resonance Image (2011), Spherical Symmetry (2019) and Collaborative Control (2016), examine the relationship between the “unresolved and perfected form,” and between the tangible and intangible interactions. Zakiewicz is interested in the way we learn to perceive form and composition when our comprehension is limited within a set of prescribed visual semiotics. She asks whether “performing drawing,” as a type of improvisation, can dissolve the boundaries of our “learned disposition,” and bring us back to an origin of sorts. Each animation re-considers the role of the “body” and the role of “form” as intertwining modalities that shape and navigate our perception of a tangible reality. In this series, the artist continues her examination with the pictorialization of space and the intimacy of exchange. Her interest is predominantly also turned towards the observer, where she examines the process of reading shapes, using physiognomic perception, a process often governed by things that have the most significance to us, such as, faces, gravity (vertical and horizontal lines), circles and perspective lines.
“I've been exploring, deconstructing and reducing both the physical and conceptual elements of my earlier drawing, performance and sonic based practice into a vocabulary of signs, forms, actions, objects and symmetries,” says Zakiewicz. “We read shapes, lines and colours according to our physiognomic perception. This relates to our relationship with human faces and bodies alongside the objects and shapes in our physical world. For example vertical lines are translated as energetic and relating to cities or tall trees, horizontal lines are seen as calm and reference land or seascapes. We conceptualize circles as representing the cyclical patterns of life, and to the primordial forces that navigate the order and symmetry of the universe.”
For additional information contact info@clairezakiewicz.com and the view this series of works visit www.clairezakiewicz.com
