Mateusz Sadowski
born in 1984
Dyplom licencjacki z fotografii u prof. Piotra Chojnackiego na ASP w Poznaniu w 2007 r. Dyplom z intermediów u Mirosława Bałki oraz aneks z malarstwa u prof. Wojciecha Łazarczyka na ASP w Poznaniu w 2010 r.
Zajmuje się wideo, fotografią i instalacją. Współpracuje z Galerią Stereo (www.galeriastereo.pl).
Mieszka i pracuje w Poznaniu.
Individual exhibitions:
– „Nie ma takiego czegoś”, Galeria Stereo, Poznań, 2010
– „Opląt”, showOFF, Photomonth Festival, Kraków, 2010
– „Pobudliwość”, Galeria Nova, Kraków, 2009
– „Pożar”, Galeria Stereo, Poznań, 2009
– „Teeth Behind the Trees”, Galeria ON, Poznań, 2009
– „Pokój Światów”, Galeria Naprzeciw, Poznań, 2009
Collective exhibitions:
– „A clock That Runs on Mud”, NERO magazine, on-line exhibition, 2011
– „Chodzenie po domu”, Galeria EMDES, Wrocław, 2011
– Biennale WRO, Galeria EMDES, Wrocław, 2011
– MIR, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, 2011
– „(un)Polish”, Galerie Petra Vankova, Berlin, Niemcy, 2011
– „Transylwania 2”, Galeria Arsenał, Poznań, 2011
– „Wszystko”, Galeria Kolonie, Warszawa, 2011
– „Samsung Art Master”, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Warszawa, 2010
– „Transylwania”, BWA Zielona Góra, 2010
– Transit, Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moskwa, Rosja, 2010
– „Letni nieletni”, Zachęta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warszawa, 2010
– „Linia Y,” Galeria Appendix 2, Warszawa, 2010
– „Przeciąg”, II Festiwal Sztuki Młodych, Zamek Książąt Pomorskich, Szczecin, 2009
– „Difference Beyond Difference”, Stary Browar, Poznań, 2009
– „Transvizualia”, 3. Międzynarodowy Festiwal Form Multimedialnych, Gdynia, 2009
–„Expanded City”, Biennale WRO, Wrocław, 2009
– „Videonale 12”, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Niemcy, 2009
– „Fantomy i fetysze”, Galeria ABC, Poznań, 2009
– „Stan podgorączkowy”, Stary Browar, Poznań, 2008
– „Samsung Artmaster”, CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, Warszawa, 2008
– „Wielka Polska”, Galeria Miejska Arsenał, Mediations Biennale, Poznań, 2008
– „International Children’s Night”, Art Center, Łódź, 2007
– „Vidioci”, Stary Browar, Poznań, 2006
Awards:
– Laureat 7. edycji konkursu Samsung Art Master, 2010
– Laureat polskiej edycji konkursu Henkel Art Award, 2010
Publications:
– Recenzja wystawy solowej „There is no such thing” autorstwa Jennifer Teets, magazyn „SPIKE” nr 28, Summer 2011
Together with Dominik Kuryłek, we have nominated Mateusz Sadowski for the Geppert Award before. Back then, just after receiving his BA art diploma, Sadowski made a few highly oniric film landscapes. This is what we wrote about his works at that time: “The experience of nature has been one of the basic impulses for creating images for centuries. [...] Artistic landscapes have not only shown what is natural, but also expressed extreme emotions towards reality. [...] Mateusz Sadowski’s work belongs to this tradition. […] In his installation Hills and Trees (2008), he is an indeterminate wanderer […]. The films constituting this work may be treated as landscapes with staffage spread over time, in which the main theme is looking for the “perpetrator”, i.e. the artist himself. Sadowski emphasizes it by projecting films with the same plot and different sets in a parallel way. The “mirror” created in this manner seems to show the face of a man without substance who is condemned to failure [...] Sunset/Sunrise (2006) [...] is a symbolic landscape with a delicate crack in narration. [...] Contrary to appearances, irony is absent from the picture here. The motifs used by the artist make up a melancholy composition showing the symbolic, disquieting moment between night and day, when – as some claim – the demons rise. The frozen frame makes the viewer contemplate the picture. The film […] refers to Warhol’s Empire, except that it is tailored to the Polish tradition, which has always valued the mythical image of the village, with its closeness to nature, over spectacular achievements of modern civilization. In his art, Sadowski draws on traditional iconography, juxtaposing it with painting solutions worked out as a result of his critical approach to this traditional medium.” Sadowski’s film “You Know What It Is All About” (2010) is closest to that climate. This black-and-white picture, playing with form, focus, as well as the rhythm of sound and respective sequences, is a humorous study of nature. It seems that among all his attempts, it is the artist’s interest in emotion in film and installation that has become the dominating motif over the last few years when he gave up the illustrative character of his art. It is also the way I see his short, poetic films like Silence, Friction (both from 2010) and the superb Bore (2011), where the author uses form, texture and rhythm to offer us a brief opportunity to stop thinking and thanks to its mood assume our own position in relation to art. We experience something similar when faced with the unusually precise, ethereal installations – the machines of experience and thinking (both from 2011). In his art, Sadowski returns to the issue of pleasure and delight, at the same time using the means typical of art aiming at tautological reflection.
Ewa Małgorzata Tatar
