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SUMMARY:Przemek Pyszczek: Białystok
DESCRIPTION:Przemek Pyszczek: Białystok\nMarch 29\, 2018 to June 10\, 2018\n\nPowder-coated colours of steel-poles shape a centralized geometric form inBiałystok – Przemek Pyszczek’s first solo exhibition in Canada. Heavily influenced by the architectural and civic structures from his birth town Białystok in Poland\, Pyszczek builds a colourful\, sprawling and unified sculpture that simultaneously captures a conformity and resistance to public housing infra-structures in Communist Poland\, which turned from grey into an explosion of colour post the fall of the Iron Curtain. \nPyszczek’s palette is compiled from these colourful reprisals of civic space as residential concrete blocks were painted in an array of pastel hues with the structure of his sculptures based on architectural details. The lattice of hand railings\, the flourishes in balcony designs and the patterning of fencing and other public to private barriers are references for Pyszczek abstracted forms. The shape comes first and then colour is applied – reflective of the artist’s own encounter with Białystok\, as a measuring of time and an articulation of history. \nThe exhibition title is itself nostalgic in alluding to the artist’s birthplace\, his childhood before his family immigrated to Winnipeg\, Canada and before his return to Poland after the collapse of communism. This reflection on his childhood home is mediated and doubled in the formal construction of the exhibition\, which is an allusion and amalgamation of vintage playground jungle gyms. The form is rigid yet twisted – narrowly escaping the childhood filter of a colourless past retuned as an out-pouring of collective colours. \nPrzemek Pyszczek is a Polish-born\, Canadian-raised artist who is currently based in Berlin. Through architecturally inspired sculptures\, installations and paintings Pyszczek’s work traces Poland’s transition since the fall of the iron curtain and also serves as an ongoing journey to rediscover his own past. He obtained his Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Manitoba in 2007. Pyszczek’s work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions\, most recently presenting a solo exhibition at Galerie Derouillon\, Paris. His work has been included in Forever Never Comes\, Museo Archeologico e d’Arte della Maremma\, Grosseto\, Italy; 1989 Belenius\, Stockholm; Sandomir\, Nicodim Gallery\, Los Angeles; Industrius\, Window Gallery\, Winnipeg; Building Systems\, Berthold Pott\, Cologne; and Corporalitas\, Open Forum\, Berlin.
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LOCATION:Manitoba
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SUMMARY:Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: Shit-Baby and The Crumpled Giraffe
DESCRIPTION:Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: Shit-Baby and The Crumpled Giraffe\n\n\nMarch 29\, 2018 to June 10\, 2018\n\n\n\n\nShit-Baby and the Crumpled Giraffe is an exquisite display of Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa’s characteristic penchant towards humor\, abjection\, and performance as he transforms bodily action into object form . For his solo exhibition at Plug In ICA\, Ramirez-Figueroa immerses the viewer in a theatrical space where the fantastical meets a corporeal reality. He sets a stage through a series of sculptural forms painstakingly constructed out of Styrofoam\, revealing an imaginary and infantile world. \nExploiting an interest in the function and training of the body that is most acutely encountered in childhood\, for this presentation at Plug In ICA\, Shit-Baby and the Crumpled Giraffe will be adapted from its recent incarnation at the Kunsthalle Lissabon  in Portugal (Fall 2017). Invited into the exhibition through a scattering of objects \, viewers encounter imperfect colored vessels arranged in careful clusters\, and dispersed amidst small piles of “beautifully sculpted poo”. One deviant strand hovers serpent-like – fantastical and ominous\, airborne amidst a human-sized giraffe; a sneaker-wearing pelican carrying a sack of feces; and a seated naked toddler. \nNafus Ramírez Figueroa is a Guatemalan-born\, Berlin-based artist. Working in sculpture\, performance\, video\, installation and printmaking\, Figueroa’s work is grounded in mechanisms and conditions of colonialism worldwide\, with specific investment in Guatemalan history. Receiving ongoing support from Corpus (2015-present)\, Figueroa has engaged in a series of performances that he describes as an “attempt to exhaust my interest into the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1990)”. The weight of his subjects is often tempered by a playful material sensibility\, forays into childhood\, dreams\, fantasy and the complexity of embodiment. Figueroa holds a BFA from Emily Carr University\, Vancouver with a specialization in media art\, and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has garnered international acclaim\, with notable inclusions in Viva Arte Viva\, 57th Venice Biennale 2017; Incerteza viva\, 32nd São Paulo Biennale\, 2016; Burning Down the House\, 10th Gwangju Biennale\, 2014 and in 2016\, he was a resident artist at DAAD\, in Berlin. He also has strong ties to Canada\, where his work was featured on the cover of FUSE Magazine in 2013 and in 2018-19 Figueroa will present three major solo exhibitions in Canada\, at Grunt Gallery\, Vancouver; the Audain Gallery\, Vancouver; and Plug In ICA\, Winnipeg.
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LOCATION:Manitoba
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