Oryginalny znak warszawskiej syrenki odrzucającej broń powstał jesienią 1985. Odbijany był z szablonu na ulicach Warszawy na przełomie 1985 / 1986. Miał być symbolem przemiany, zwiastunem nowej epoki i nowej świadomości odrzucającej zbędny, uciążliwy, kosztowny, przesadny militaryzm. Idea łączy się z hasłem Gandhiego „Satjagraha” - siła w niezłomnej prawdzie bez przemocy. Uwolnione ramiona SYRENKI układają się w znak „V”: zwycięstwo ku wolności przez prawdę i wiedzę. W roku 2017 powstała neonowa wersja SYRENKI na potrzeby wystawy SYRENA HERBEM TWYM ZWODNICZA w Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie.
The original sign of the Warsaw mermaid rejecting the weapon was made in the fall of 1985. It was printed from a stencil on the streets of Warsaw at the turn of 1985/1986. It was supposed to be a symbol of change, a harbinger of a new era and of a new consciousness rejecting unnecessary, burdensome, expensive, exaggerated militarism. The idea is connected with Gandhi's slogan "Satyagraha" - strength in steadfast truth without violence. The released arms of the MERMAID form a "V" sign: victory towards freedom through truth and knowledge. In 2017 a neon version of the MERMAID was created for the exhibition THE BEGUILING SIREN IS THY CREST at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
Tomasz Sikorski’s body land performances bring home back to a bio-deterministic point in time – the artist’s body - upside down merging into the land. It is a kind of living way of presenting what home is performatively speaking. In the middle of a forest area close to a red and white Polish border land marker, Sikorski has set up overhead banners that declare a START, a place of entrance to the forest. At the other end, we can read a second banner that simply has the word META on it. Once we are on our way in the centre of this “conceptually delineated space”, we become aware that seen from inside, the signs read META at both ends, as if we were metaphorically trapped by this “state of being”. Sikorski’s installation suggests our notion of Home could as readily be a meta-state as it could be a concept. It is all in the way we interpret it all. Or is it possible nature was (and still is) our real primordial Home, one that existed (and still does) before all the constructs and ideational interpretations came into being? At another secluded sanctuary-like site, Sikorski’s Never Now presents a grave with a mirror facing upwards to the skies. Death as metaphor for home, or for our unpreparedness for death when it comes, Sikorski’s modest yet powerful action recalls his late father, who escaped from Warsaw during the 1944 uprising through the sewers of the city, and so Sikorski’s Escape, a blue circle that circumscribes a patch of ground as a point of connectivity to other places, other times, other world, is contemplative, searching, a gesture of acceptance and letting go.
John K Grande, 2016
NOWE FLAGI 2004 (8szt) i 2016 (2szt), stilon 180x270cm
NEW FLAGS 2004 (8pcs) and 2016 (2pcs) , stilon 180x270cm
POLSKA DOBRZE CHRONIONA, 2016 Radom, ul. Traugutta, betonowy płot / gruz, mech, 6x6m, wys 2m
POLAND WELL PROTECTED, 2016 Radom, Traugutta St., concrete fence / rubble / moss, 6x6m, h 2m
MOZAIKA PODŁOGOWA, 2016 MCSW Elektrownia, Radom
FLOOR MOSAIC, 2016 MCSW Elektrownia, Radom
DUCH ŚWIĘTY, 2016 pętla wideo / potłuczone lustro
HOLY SPIRIT, 2016 video loop / broken mirror
TV BUDDHA - POLISH VERSION 2016
TV Buddha Nam June Paika z zakłóceniami
Nam June Paik's TV Buddha with disturbances
fot Marcin Kucewicz
PIASKOWNICA , 2014 obiekt /światło / dźwięk, premiera: MCSW Elektrownia, Radom 2016
SANDBOX, 2014 object / light / sound, premiere: MCSW Elektrownia, Radom 2016
N-O-W, 2014 trzy pętle wideo
N-O-W, 2014 three video loops
MOŻLIWE NIEMOŻLIWE, 2016, części garderoby /strzały / ściana, MCSW Elektrownia, Radom
POSSIBLE IMPOSSIBLE, 2016, garment pieces / arrows / wall, MCSW Elektrownia, Radom
fot Marcin Kucewicz
CHMURA, 2013, monety / lustro, 57x119cm
CLOUD, 2013, coins / mirror, 57x119cm
fot Marcin Kucewicz
STILL POINT, 2013 lustro / strzała, Ø 48cm
STILL POINT, 2013 mirror / arrow, Ø 48cm
EVERY BATTLE, 2009 environment multimedialny, 4 wideoobrazy / dźwięk / spalone rzeczy / zapach, ODA Piotrków Trybunalski
EVERY BATTLE, 2009 multimedia environment, 4 video pictures / sound / burned objects / smell, ODA Piotrków Trybunalski
DIE GUTE FRAU, 2008, stół / serweta / bukiet / dywan / lustro / obracająca się swastyka
DIE GUTE FRAU, 2008, table / table cloth / bouquet / carpet / mirror / rotating swastika
NAUKA SŁUCHANIA KOŚCI, 2001, kości / membrana / aparatura dźwiękowa, 300x300cm, wys.130cm, dźwięk: Tadeusz Sudnik, Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warszawa
LESSON OF BONES' LISTENING, 2001, bones / membrane / sound system, 300x300cm, h130cm, sound: Tadeusz Sudnik, Center of Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
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