Kasia fudakowski biography of barack
The Canadian artist Gillian Genser worked for 15 years using sanded Atlantic mussels shells she bought in bulk to create her figurative sculptures..
For the exhibition “Untitled Three perspectives on the art of the present”, open until December 13th in Punta della Dogana.
PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS ENDLESS BODIES UNDER PRESSURE
The reading of this compendium might feel at first contradictory. Far from being unaware of how the events presented will be received, this autobiographical catalogue (one of presumably many to come) is an amalgamation of three versions of Kasia Fudakowski herself (one is not enough, it seems).
Through three different introductions worth reading over and over again, this book invites the reader into an instinctively aesthetical, unbearably universal, and reluctantly funny confrontation with a life that is still being lived, reflected, and unsettled.
Funny, well, that’s not serious enough. Under the pressure of the exhilaration, exhaustion, and speculation that an award-exhibition propagates (in this case, a grant from the Gunter-Peill-Stiftung offered to her with a solo show at the Leopold-Hoesch-Museum), the artist invented the word kömick to describe her work, signifying a non-linear behaviour or logic that uses comic mech