Krystyna Ziach
kunstinzicht.nlDie Grosse Kunstausstellung NRW, Messe Düsseldorf, DE
09-12-2001 t/m 06-01-2002
Catalogue, published by Verein zur Veranstaltung von Kunstausstellungen, 2001, Düsseldorf, DE
Diptych, lambda-prints, 160 x 240 cm
A Spiral of Memory 2001-2002
Collection DeltaLloyd, NL
/.../ Inert water, in contrast to flowing water, smells: it sews the seeds of death and decay. It nearly has a morbid characteristic and also refers to a disturbance in a natural equilibrium and to changeability. Ziach devotes three works to this idea. They are all photo works with a suggestive depth: the mysterious attraction of static, dark water is manifested in it. In The Spiral of Memory, one witnesses whirlpools. Their inward spiral movement announces change. It signifies flux, unrest, chaos and disturbance. Rolled up photos with images of human body parts tumble around in the whirlpool; they are hauled away in the movement of water./.../
* read more: Archê - The Ambivalence of Water and Fire, text, by Mirelle Thijsen, art critic, 1996,
on website: www.krystynaziach.com
Solo exhibition Archê, Kunsthal De Remise, Foundation of Visual Arts , Amsterdam
08-11-2001 t/m 25-11-2001
/.../“Archê” - which is the Greek word for “origin”- is the title of her new show. This universal concept refers to the leitmotiv of “water” or “the wet element” which is implied. Water can be understood as a metaphore for transience and the passing of time. In Archê water is also the symbolic transformation from the material to the spiritual /.../
Archê / Krystyna Ziach, text by Fritz Gierstberg, curator of the Netherlands Photography Institute, Rotterdam, 1994
* read more: "Archê -The Ambivalence of Water and Fire", by M. Thijsen, from the book Infinity & Archê, 2006, NL, on the website: www.krystynaziach.com/documents
Solo exhibition Archê 1995-1996
Solo exhibition Archê 1995-1996
Solo exhibition Archê 1995-1996
Solo exhibition Aqua Obscura, Ram Galerie, project room, Rotterdam
17-03-2001 t/m 16-04-2001
lambda-print, 130 x 125 cm
Aqua Obscura 2000-2001
/.../ Ziach photographed the water surface which was covered with an infinite, dotted pattern of algae cultures. These cultures, when blown up into a larger size, obtain a kinky almost abstract structure. Aqua Obscura shows a puddle in which a series of photo negatives are floating around with portraits of one and the same person. They are half concealed between the algae, as human residues. The method of portraying photos within photos has the affect of memories in multiplied form. /.../
*read more: Archê-The Ambivalence of Water and Fire, text by M. Thijsen, art critic, 1996,
on website: www.krystynaziach.com
Lambda-print, 130 x 125 cm
Aqua Obscura 2000-2001
Die Grosse Kunstaustellung NRW, Messe Düsseldorf, DE
10-12-2000 t/m 07-01-2001
Catalogue, published by Verein zur Veranstaltung von Kunstausstellungen, 2000, Düsseldorf, DE
Lambda-prints, 170 x 125 cm, each
A Garden of Illusion 1992-1993