Krystyna Ziach
kunstinzicht.nlDifferent People, Ram Galerie, Rotterdam
06-09-1992 t/m 11-10-1992
Group exhibition as part of the Rotterdam Photo Biennial, 1992.
Different People, Ram Galerie, Rotterdam,
group exhibition as part of the Rotterdam Photo Biennial, 1992.
Space of Imagination
Lambda-print, 168 x 125 cm, edition 5
Melancholy 1989-1990
Outer Space, 8 Photo & Video Installations, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
23-05-1992 t/m 28-06-1992
Touring exhibition organised by the South Bank Centre London, curated by Alexandra Noble
With a.o. W. Doherty, J. Barry, G. Cadieux.
Tour in UK 1991-1992:
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Camden Arts Centre, London
Arnolfini, Bristol
The Outer Space Exhibition features eight international artists whose large-scale installations explore new developments in the use and video and photo -based technology.These artists use images which push beyond self-contained framed boundaries and spill over into an outer space. Their work creates a range of image environments which are cultural, political, technological or historical /.../
Krystyna Ziach spent two months in Japan in 1987. Shinto, The Way of the Sacred Spirits,The Anatomy of a Big Buddha and Infinity were selected for this exhibition because they all relate to the religions of Zen Buddhism and Shinto. In keeping with the tenets of the spiritual systems, we are presented with images in which nothing is cluttered or superfluous. The placing of the figure of the artist in the side panels of Shinto, The Way of the Sacred Spirits presents an abstraction and integration of the human with the spiritual. The configurations of sand and pebbles are a new development extending the wall works onto the floor of the gallery; a sound tape increases the sense of calm and meditation present in the works. When surrounded by these elements one is reminded of the words of Carl Andre who said: ...the Japanese have for centuries been concerned with this matter of place - their gardens of various kinds, the raked sand and stones gardens /.. /these are places charged with great calm and a great feeling that, if one cannot really contain the universe, perhaps in one’s mind, one of these gardens gives the very secure feeling /../.one is contained within the universe...* This installation contains the viewer within a European artist’s experience of another culture. While Ziach’s “migration” to Japan was temporary, the presentation of elements resonates with more than a series of impressions; it is photography’s illusions that powerfully give us a sense of the sacred here. The infinity of tiny Buddhas reflected in a mirror on the floor metaphorically suggests how another culture cannot be quantified.
Catalogue Outer Space, text by Alexandra Noble, curator of the South Bank Centre, London and director of the Estorick Museum in London 1991
Outer Space, Arnolfini, Bristol, 1992, UK
Curated by Alexandra Noble, The South Bank Centre, London, UK
Outer Space, Arnolfini, Bristol, 1992, UK
Our Space, Arnolfini, Bristol, 1992, UK
This installation is composed of 3 photo-sculptures installed with related sand & pebble gardens and sound tape
Photographs, diasec, mirror, charcoal, wooden frames, sand and pebbles
...The configurations of sand and pebbles are a new development extending the wall works onto the floor of the gallery ...
Alexandra Noble, curator of the South Bank Centre, London and director of the Estorick Museum in London; text from the catalogue Outer Space, The South Bank Centre, London, 1991, UK
Outer Space
8 Photo & Video Installations, with Judith Barry, Ania Bien, Willy Doherty, Ulrich Görlich, Jeffrey Show, Susan Trangmar & Krystyna Ziach
Catalogue, text by Alexandra Noble, 32 pages, published by The South Bank Centre, 1991, London, UK
Outer Space
Catalogue, text by A. Noble, 32 pages, published by The South Bank Centre, 1991, London, UK
Outer Space, 8 Photo & Video Installations, Camden Arts Center, London
20-03-1992 t/m 26-04-1992
Touring exhibition organised by the South Bank Centre London, curated by Alexandra Noble
With a.o. W. Doherty, J. Barry, G. Cadieux.
Tour in UK 1991-1992
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Camden Arts Centre, London
Arnolfini, Bristol
Outer Space, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1991, curated by Alexandra Noble, South Bank Centre, London
This installation is composed of 3 photo-sculptures installed with related sand & pebble gardens and sound tape
Photographs, diasec, mirror, charcoal, wooden frames, sand and pebbles
/.../ As from her participation, in 1992, in the international group show Outer Space in the UK- where she was represented with three installations from the Japan series-Ziach has also been using the space around the photo sculptures. On the floor in front of some of the works she sprinkles geometrical patterns of shell sand, charcoal and pulverized marble. A rigidly raked field of immaculately white shell sand in the shape of a semicircle-with a centre of charcoal- suggests a small part of a meditative Zen garden at the foot of the triptych The Anatomy of the Big Buddha /.../
"The infinite reflection of everything in everything; A Chamber of Mirrors", text by Mirelle Thijsen, art critic, Het Financieele Dagblad, 1994, NL
Outer Space, Camden Arts Centre, 1992, London, curated by Alexandra Noble, The South Bank Centre, London UK
This installation is composed of 3 photo-sculptures installed with related sand & pebble gardens and sound tape
Photographs, diasec, mirror, wooden frames, charcoal sand and pebbles
Outer Space, Camden Arts Centre, 1992, London, UK
Outer Space
8 Photo & Video Installations, with Judith Barry, Ania Bien, Willy Doherty, Ulrich Görlich, Jeffrey Show, Susan Trangmar & Krystyna Ziach
Catalogue, text by Alexandra Noble, 32 pages, published by The South Bank Centre, 1991, London, UK
Outer Space, Camden Arts Centre, 1992, London, curated by Alexandra Noble, The South Bank Centre, London UK
All Together Now, but Separately, text by T. Hilton,
The Guardian, 26 March 1992, newspaper, UK
exhibition Outer Space, curated by A. Noble, Camden Art Center, London, 1992