The catalogue Self-Seeker contains Brzeski’s newest pieces as well as selected pieces from the previous decade – sculptures, videos and drawings, the famous Art is Violence collection of ceramic sculptures, a cloud of soot attached to the wall entitled Dream – Spontaneous Combustion and The Fall of the Man I Don’t Like.
Self-Seeker is a story about the bestiality that an individual, reviewing his own desires and instincts, finds inside himself. This bestiality crystallises in the form of masculinity. Among other things, Self-Seeker is also an exhibition about masculinity: about aggression, desire, violence, shame, power, and fear of weakness. Another theme present in the exhibition is the story about the metamorphoses of forms, materials, and modes of depiction in Brzeski’s practice. While the artist uses various artistic forms, sculpture remains his primary form of choice(…)
Olaf Brzeski
Self-Seeker
Edited by Olaf Brzeski, Patrycja Sikora and Stach Szabłowski
Publisher: BWA Wrocław Art Gallery, Co-editors: Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Gallery Arsenał Białystok, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Warszawa-Wrocław 2013.
ISBN: 978-83-63505-03-5
Source: Centre for Contemporary Art at the Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, Culture.pl, edited by: AS, 5.01.2014, Translated by: Zuzanna Wiśniewska, September 2015