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EXHIBITION \u201cPATRICIA PICCININI. WE ARE!”<\/strong><\/p>\n CSW, Toru\u0144, October 29, 2021 – April 10, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n Organizer:<\/strong> World Art Foundation To read more click HERE<\/strong><\/a>, HERE<\/strong><\/a>, HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/span> and HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Starting October 29, 2021, Toru\u0144<\/strong> will be the place of an extraordinary artistic event. For the first time in Poland, there will be a chance to see the works of the world-renowned Australian sculptor Patricia Piccinini<\/strong>, including the highly acclaimed sculptures presented at the Venice Biennale. The exhibition is entitled Patricia Piccinini. We Are!<\/strong><\/span> and is organized by the World Art Foundation<\/strong>, founded in 2006 by director David Lynch<\/strong> and director of the EnergaCAMERIMAGE<\/strong><\/span> Film Festival Marek \u017bydowicz<\/strong>, who is the exhibition\u2019s curator. Sculptures, installations and video presentations of the artist will be presented at the Centre of Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu” in Toru\u0144<\/strong> and take up the space of about 2000 m2. One of the artist\u2019s sculptures will have its world premiere at the exhibition in Toru\u0144<\/strong>. The exhibition will be accompanied by a film review, meetings with artists, discussions with experts and workshops.<\/p>\n Patricia Piccinini<\/strong> (born in 1965) has been arousing attention and enthusiasm all over the world with her art for years. Her sensuous, magical, disturbingly bizarre, hyperrealist sculptures force us to ask questions and arouse controversy. The large-scale installations are played out amidst cross-currents of science fiction, natural science and feminism. The exhibition in Toru\u0144<\/strong> will invite the audience on a marvelous journey through a series of vivid scenes where hybrid creatures interact in everyday situations. With silicone, fibreglass, nylon, plastic and human hair Piccinini<\/strong> creates lifelike futuristic narratives that raise highly relevant issues of existence, climate and technology. All this allow the artist to achieve an extremely realistic form of sculptures that never leave the audience indifferent.<\/p>\n In Piccinini’s<\/strong> transcending universe, digital and biotechnological opportunities have shaped new hybrid life forms. Piccinini<\/strong> depicts the contrasts in her art, where the playful and the imaginative meet the bizarre and the horrific. Piccinini<\/strong> celebrates everything that is \u2018different\u2019 and challenges boundaries among humans, animals and plants. Here we find poetry and beauty in the connected, the strange and the diverse. She invites us to fantasize over the possible communities and kinships the future technologies will create across species.<\/p>\n Patricia Piccinini\u2019s<\/strong> artistic practice is embedded in a firm commitment to environmental and eco-feminist issues. In sensuous, complex works Piccinini<\/strong> investigates how we live and forge relations in an era when the natural and the artificial connect in new ways. Her works involve ethical messages about empathy and care for all the creatures and plants we share this earth with \u2013 and for the still unknown beings that will live among us in the future. Her universe offers dreams and hopes of a future full of loving interspecies kinships and invites us to imagine the world anew.<\/p>\n Patricia Piccinini<\/strong> was born in 1965 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. In 1972, the family emigrated to Australia, where Piccinini<\/strong> grew up. Graduate of the Victorian College of Arts in Melbourne, where she has been a professor since 2017, previously obtaining an honorary doctorate from the University of Melbourne (2016). Receiver of a Lifetime Achievement Award from Melbourne Art Foundation in 2014. Her practice encompasses sculpture, photography, video and drawing and examines the nebulous boundary between the artificial and the natural in contemporary culture. Her work revolves around painting, video, sound, installations, digital prints and sculpture. In 2016, she was named by “The Art Newspaper” the most popular contemporary artist in the world.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n
\nCo-organizers:<\/strong> Tumult Foundation and the EnergaCAMERIMAGE International Film Festival 2021, the City of Toru\u0144, the Centre of Contemporary Art “Znaki Czasu” in Toru\u0144
\nThe main partner:<\/strong> Marshal Office of the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region
\nPartners:<\/strong> European Film Center CAMERIMAGE, The Institute for Cultural Exchange in T\u00fcbingen (Germany) and the ARKEN Museum of Modern Art in Ish\u00f8j (Denmark)<\/p>\n