There and Back train, courtesy of the artist
Fitting toy trains with miniature wi-fi cameras, the artist gives visitors a glimpse into the nooks and crannies of architecture's tightest corners
Modified 3 Piko HO model trains travel on tracks set between the pipes and cables throughout the Bill Scott Sculpture centre. Live wireless video feed of the train's journey is streamed to monitors within the visitor space on the centre, along with a wider picture of the scene from stationary monitors. The project is based on finding the interaction between scale and the synthesis between architecture, movement, sculpture, installation and multimedia.
The project originated in 2011 with the artist's Transmission from Journey installation in the ceiling of the Arsenał Municipal Gallery in Poznań, where a miniature Hercules locomotive was loaded with a JVC 10" camera recording the model train's journey through the spaces typically inaccessible to visitors.
The works of Kuba Bąkowski (born 1971) combine photography, film, installation and performance to create works that use irony, absurdity and paradox to make a statement on the world around us as relics of contemporary culture are transposed to the status of myth. The subjects he delves into range from sports, religion, nature, communications and outer space. He is a graduate of the Department of Multimedia Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań. He is the first artist to be selected for the Royal Scottish Academy International Residency programme. He has shown his works in both solo and group exhibitions at the Zachęta National Gallery and Zamek Ujazdowski Centre of Contemporary Art in Warsaw. He has also taken part in group exhibitions at Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna, Museé d’Art Moderne in Saint-Etienne, Artspace Sydney, National Centre of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, and Chelsea Art Museum in New York. Today he lives and works in Warsaw. He is represented by the Scaramouche Gallery in New York.
There And Back Again by Kuba Bakowski takes place at the Bill Scott Sculpture Centre (Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop) between the 8th-22nd of September.
Bill Scott Sculpture Centre
25 Hawthornvale,
Newhaven,
Edinburgh, EH6 4JT
www.edinburghsculpture.org
For more information, see: www.polishculture.org.uk
Editor: Agnieszka Le Nart
Source: Polish Cultural Institute in London