Tomasz Dobiszewski
Tracking the sun Work is a record of the presence of the sun in given latitude (51 06 18.6 N 17 05 21.4 E) day after day in 2016. Sun traces were engraved by laser in 12 marble plates. special thanks to: Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Migala Piotr Ropuszynski MSc from University of Wroclaw Institute of Geography & Regional Development Department of Climatology & Atmosphere Protection Tracking the sun, La Carte et le Territoire exhibition, La Galerie Du Crous, Paris 2017
Tracking the sun, installation, marble, 2017
22052016 The installation shows the path which sun has made on 22nd of May 2016 in the room converted into a camera obscura. Trace was registered directly on photographic paper. 22052016 from Tracking the sun series, installation, 14 photograms, 2016
22052016 from Tracking the sun series, Polygonum exhibition, Galeria Miejska BWA, Bydgoszcz 2016
In the proposition a world is as it were put together experimentally... (As when in the law-court in Paris a motor-car accident is represented by means of dolls) The quotation from Diaries of Ludwig Wittgenstein has become a pretext for making films recorded by lenses in the shape of words. Thanks to this technique, words have been disclosed in moving pictures, which however do not represent their referent. The mind jumps between interpretation of picture and reading of the word placed in the picture. The work can concoct a certain conflict that can arise in the spectator s mind: how important will really be a word used in the picture, and how important will be the picture or sound itself? In the proposition a world is as it were put together experimentally..., installation, 8 pinhole videos, 8 monitors, Multiplication exhibition, Galeria Sztuki Nowoczesnej, Bydgoszcz 2014
In the proposition a world is as it were put together experimentally..., installation, 8 pinhole videos, 8 monitors, sketch, 2014
If everything is repeating, installation, 3D prints, auto-generated mapped textures, 2014 If everything is repeating The problem of automation of the photographic process - photography as a mass production with a reflection on the appropriation of objects by reference to the methods of representation. On the exhibition are shown the outer layers of objects pulled from the surface by an automated camera. And printed in 3D a figure of the monument, using the same application, the artist photographed again and prints again. He repeats this process several times. Each new object loses focus - details are disappearing and elude.
If everything is repeating, Galeria Fotografii PF, CK Zamek, Poznań 2014
Dolna gallery - sketch for a project, installation, charcoal drawing, 2014 Dolna gallery - sketch for a project In one simple treatment succeeded to transform the interior of the gallery in a three-dimensional drawing. Dobiszewski marked with a thick black line all the corners altering perceptions of space. Architectural forms have become more painting. White exhibition halls began to resemble a drawing, grew softer as paper mock-up.
Minor absences catalogue Dolna gallery - sketch for a project, Minor absences exhibition, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków 2014
Designations The sentences of Marshall McLuhan, Stanisław Dróżdż and Ludwig Wittgenstein were used as lenses to made a photographs. Installation contains pinhole photographs (silver contact prints 8 x 10 and 5 x 7 ) and word-shaped lenses. Designations, Minor absences exhibition, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków 2014
Minor absences catalogue Designations project website Designations, Minor absences exhibition, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków 2014
Medium is a Message, Marshall McLuhan from Designations series installation, pinhole photography (silver contact prints 8 x 10 ), word-shaped lenses
Fixation The basis for the Fixation exhibition was transfer of the technique used in marketing research (*eye-tracking) into the sphere of art. The artist asked to participate in the research a group of dozens of people, who were presented with the visual stimuli in the form of films, photographs and illustrations. The aim of the project was to show other possibilities to decipher the reality, to expand the consciousness of perception of the recipients and to provoke them to consider perception. Fixation, Galeria Miejska BWA, Bydgoszcz 2012
Fixation project website Fixation catalogue Fixation, Galeria Miejska BWA, Bydgoszcz 2012
Temporary internet photos, interactive installation, internet cafe, printer, photography, 2012 / fot. Marek Gardulski Temporary internet photos When browsing any website all images are stored in memory of computer and automatically in real time printed, and then hung on the wall. When you browse the internet a spectator unknowingly becomes a kind of wizard of random photographs, it becomes co-creator of the exhibition.
Temporary internet photos, Photomonth 2012, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków 2012 / fot. Marek Gardulski
Temporary internet files Surfing around the World Wide Web, we unknowingly gather images which document that journey. They are stored in an album of our virtual travels to the Temporary Internet Files folder. Photographs, graphics, animations seem to be postcards, because we re not their authors, we just unknowingly collect them. Just like we don t know the person who made that postcard, we re unable to determine whether a given situation took place in reality or it is a creation of a fictitious world. During the virtual travels we don t search in the images we watch for the signs of the bygone, we just find meanings and symbols time and place go into oblivion. Temporary internet files, installation, video, digital frames, 2009
Temporary internet files, One dog exhibition, Galeria Miejska BWA, Bydgoszcz 2010
Movemental Objects in photographed rooms are dislocated, the space is blown and fragmented. Making an effort is required to rearrange the image and put it back together into a whole. Imagined movements which we make in our minds reflect our knowledge of the world and result from our experience in perceiving images. The level of dislocation of objects in a photograph can vary, and still it becomes clear that gradually, with practice we gain great ability in rearranging images in our heads. Thus a photograph as a complete image will exist only in our minds, photographic reality will turn out to be virtual... Movemental 1-10, Against seeing exhibition, Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Kraków 2009 / photo: Zosia Waligóra
Movemental 01, archive print on photopaper, dibond, plexiglas, 100x100 cm, edition 4 + AP, 2009
Movemental 03, archive print on photopaper, dibond, plexiglas, 100x100 cm, edition 4 + AP, 2009
Movemental 06, archive print on photopaper, dibond, plexiglas, 100x100 cm, edition 4 + AP, 2009
Movemental 05, archive print on photopaper, dibond, plexiglas, 100x100 cm, edition 4 + AP, 2009
Hidden trips Collection of undeveloped films, exposed during trips in years 2006-2009. Images recorded on films potentially exist, it seems they can be displayed. However they are not to be seen. We can only listen to the sounds the artist recorded during his trips. Based on these sounds only we have to create our own image of locations, events, views and people. In our memories different sensual stimuli are mixed creating a general impression. Sabina Czajkowska Hidden trips, Against seeing exhibition, Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Kraków 2009 / photo: Zosia Waligóra
Hidden trips 2006-2008 [Zurich, Boston, Paris, St.Michel, Skoki, Lubomierz], photographic films exposed undeveloped, 2006-2008
Hidden trips Wilno 2008, photographic film exposed undeveloped, MP3 player, plexiglass, PCV, 2008
Hidden trips - Kraków 2009, photographic film exposed undeveloped, MP3 player, plexiglass, PCV, 2009
Memorabilia The viewer entering the exhibition space is suddenly attacked by a series of images that are foreign to him, that are coming from someone else s world, that are a reflection, a metaphorical flashback of the memory of the author, who invades our mind with his past. The flash brings out the black out of the white and in a short second the image is restored in the form of an afterimage. Memorabilia, interactive installation / flashboxes / photography / movement sensors, 2005,2008
Memorabilia, Inner Spaces Gallery, Poznań 2005
Memorabilia, Teraz! exhibition, Centre of Contemporary Art Elektrownia, Radom 2008
Timing The progress bar is a visual signalling device reflecting the progress of work performed by a machine. In fact, we do not know what is actually happening, what activities have been performed and what remains to be done. We often anxiously observe such progress bars on our screens rushing it go on! ; unfortunately we are unable to speed the process up. We have no influence on the figures. Video amusingly draws our attention to what technology hides from us, at the same time indicating the limitations of a stable picture frame. We will not see nor learn about anything more than what we see. Sabina Czajkowska Timing, video, 2009
Timing 1,2,3, video, 2009
Re-medium Tomasz Dobiszewski in his work Re-medium creates a camera out of a pill pack. The space in which the image appears is where the pill lay just a moment ago. The image might be then a vision after the pill has been taken, or this vision might be the consequence of taking the image. The author, for whom, pinhole photography has always been an uncovering medium, is trying to convince us, by putting instructions next to the photographs of how to use them in the shape of an informative brochure added to the medicine, that during the times of visual pauperisation the images will still appear, even if only as placebo. Marek Noniewicz Re-medium, Polygonum exhibition, Galeria Miejska BWA, Bydgoszcz 2009
Re-medium C01, pinhole photography, silver contact print, 18x13 cm in frame 30x24 cm, edition 10, 2002-2005
Re-medium C02, pinhole photography, silver contact print, 18x13 cm in frame 30x24 cm, edition 10, 2002-2005
Re-medium B02, pinhole photography, silver contact print, 18x13 cm in frame 30x24 cm, edition 10, 2002-2005
Re-medium, lens A, 10,5x7,8 cm in frame 24x18 cm, edition 10, 2002-2005 Re-medium, leaflet, A5, 2002-2005
A B C D A01 B01 C01 D01 A02 B02 C02 D02 A03 B03 C03 D03 Re-medium, cameras built out of a pill packs, pinhole photography, silver contact print, edition 10, 2002-2005
Palingenesis A pinhole camera placed on the ceiling registers the view of rooms where little furniture was installed on the walls. In this way two different scales of the objects photographed clash merging into illusory blend of the real and the staged.
from Palingenesis series, pinhole photography, silver contact print, 18x13 cm in frame 30x24 cm, edition 10, 2004
from Palingenesis series, pinhole photography, silver contact print, 18x13 cm in frame 30x24 cm, edition 10, 2004
Pinocycle The author travels around the city with a camera installed on the bicycle frame. This way of shooting from the top takes some unpredictable effect. On the photographs we see the vehicle frame, blurry hands of the artist, a curved line of the horizon and irregular streaks of light, but in this case only the clear bike is the subject of photos? Pinocycle, pinhole photography, silver contact print, map, edition 4 + AP, 2004
from Pinocycle series, pinhole photography, silver contact print, 13x18 cm, map 30x18 cm, edition 4 + AP, 2004
from Pinocycle series, pinhole photography, silver contact print, 13x18 cm, map 30x18 cm, edition 4 + AP, 2004
exhibitions [chosen] Bio Tomasz Dobiszewski (born in 1977) in 2005 graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, from the Intermedia Photography Department directed by Krzysztof J. Baranowski and Stefan Wojnecki. He lives and works in Wrocław, Poland. He formulates his expressions using photography, video and multimedia installations. The area of interest for the artist is time and space, limitations of the viewer s perception, illusion and problems of participations. In works which are evidence of artistic taming of the media he does not stop at purely conceptual cognitive strategies but enriches the discourse by non-intellectual elements such as sensual impressions or intuitive cognition. He connects messages readable for different human senses and by experimenting with the physiology of seeing or hearing; on the one hand aims at fuller, more complete transfer, on the other mischievously or ironically deprives viewers of the possibility to get to know the essence of the work. Works in the The Bunkier Sztuki Collection in Krakow (PL), Palace of the Governors Photo Archives at the New Mexico History Museum (USA), collection of the Gallery of Modern Art of Leon Wyczółkowski s Museum (PL) and in private collections. 2016 Youngs in Museum, The National Museum, Wroclaw (PL) Polygonum, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL) Between black and white, Test Gallery, Warszawa (PL) Screen Y, Fabularna, Katowice (PL) 2015 Michał Jędrzejewski i preteksty przestrzeni, Test Gallery, Warszawa (PL) Przywidzenia, OFFO Festival, Epicentrum Gallery, Jastrzębie Zdrój (PL) Alchemical Ensemble: New Visions in Historic Photographic Processes, Sidney Larson Gallery, Columbia MO (USA) Moving pictures, Fabularna, Katowice (PL) The Entropy of Art: Catalogue, In situ, Sokołowsko (PL) ZPAF exhibition, Mała Galeria, Toruń (PL) Photosynthesis / The Entropy of Art: A Catalogue Photography, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław (PL) 2014 Multiplication, Modern Art Gallery, Bydgoszcz (PL) If everything is repeating, Galeria Fotografii PF, CK Zamek, Poznań (PL) Poetics of Light, New Mexico History Museum, Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe (USA) Minor absences, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (PL) 2013 Designations, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (PL) The Entropy of Art: Catalogue, Entropia Gallery, Wrocław (PL) Objective/Subjective, Media Faculty Gallery WST, Zabrze (PL) Meanwhile, Dance Base, Fringe Festival, Edinburgh (Scotland) Socio-political Poster, Poster Box Gallery, Wrocław (PL) Meanwhile, Day Tripper Action, ENSBA&CNSMD, Lion (France) Photographs..., Obok ZPAF Gallery, Warszawa (PL) 2012 Fixation, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL) Objective/Subjective, ZPAF Gallery, Katowice (PL) Temporary Internet Photos, Photomonth 2012, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (PL) 2011 Diversity of view, Museum of Photography, Bydgoszcz (PL) IN OUT Festival, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk (PL) Unik, Kledio Gallery, Tirana (AL) 2010 Synesthesia Festival, CK Agora, Wroclaw (PL) Polygonum 2, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL) IN OUT Festival, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk (PL) Languorous Happenings, Modern Art Gallery, Bydgoszcz (PL) One dog, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL) HALLO!, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL) Where are we going, DKP Gallery, Wilno (LT) Shadowplay, Mazovian Centre of Contemporary Art Elektrownia, Radom (PL) 2009 Until do Us Part, Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Kraków (PL) One dog, Vilnius Railway Station Gallery, Wilno (LT) Artventure, Saarlandisches Kunstlerhaus, Saarbrucken (D) Against Seeing, Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Kraków (PL) Show me Yours, Mannheimer Kunsverein, Mannheim (D) 2008 Now! Artists of Foto-Medium-Art Gallery, Mazovian Centre of Contemporary Art Elektrownia, Radom (PL) Digital Meat, ZPAF Gallery, Katowice (PL) Talk to me. More, Studio BWA, Wroclaw (PL)
2007 II Festival of Pinhole Photography OFFO, Jastrzebie-Zdrój (PL) Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography, Brant Gallery, Boston (USA) Light Sensitivity, Galeria pod Atlantami, Walbrzych (PL) Polygonum, Municipal Gallery BWA, Bydgoszcz (PL) Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography, University Art Gallery University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford (USA) Shreads of time and scraps of memory, Photography Gallery Fokus, Siedlce (PL) Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston (USA) 2006 Pinholes In Action, Galeria Dzialan, Warszawa (PL) Re-vision II Warsaw Festival of Art Photography, Galeria Sztuki Mediów ASP, Warszawa (PL) Pinhole Photography from Z. Tomaszczuk s Collection, Wroclaw Non Stop Festival, Dom Edyty Stein, Wroclaw (PL) Picture of the Year 2005, Hotel Europejski, Warszawa (PL) Memorabilia, inspiracje Festival, Amfilada Gallery, Szczecin (PL) Camera obscura, ZPAF Gallery, Katowice (PL) 2005 Presentation, Brda Gallery, Bydgoszcz (PL) Exhibition of Artists from Bydgoszcz, Patras (GR) Object Hunting - Biennale of Photography, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznan (PL) Photovision, Wschodnia Gallery, Lodz (PL) Pinhole Photography from Z. Tomaszczuk s Collection, International Photography Festival, Lodz (PL) 2004 Crossing time, crossing spaces, CSW Inner Spaces, Poznan (PL) Retransmission Festival, Gdansk, Warszawa, Lodz (PL) esc., Museum of Artists, Lodz (PL) Biennale of Photography, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL) Exibition of Dwarf Photography, Bydgoszcz, Swinoujscie (PL) ISCI on the other side of screen, Kolonia artystów, PGR_ART, Gdansk (PL) Pinhole Photography from Z. Tomaszczuk s Collection, Galeria pod Schodami, Kraków (PL) 2003 Offensiva Film Festival, Wroclaw (PL) Cialosc, Spiz7 Gallery, Gdansk (PL) 2002 Konstruction3 [dekonstruction], FUgg Festival Inner Spaces, CSW Inner Spaces, Poznan (PL) Hi-story, Gallery 011, Torun (PL) Forma nova oculos terret, Factory, Lodz (PL) 2001 Biennale of Photography, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL) Absinth, Level -1, CSW Inner Spaces, Poznan (PL) 2000 La dolce vita, VIII Festiwal Inner Spaces, Poznan (PL) SCHOLARSHIPS / RESIDENCIES / AWARDS: 2012 Scholarship of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (PL) 2010 Plat(t)form 2010, Fotomuseum, Winterthur (CH) 2008 Member and organiser of SZKLARNIA Photography review, Municipal Gallery bwa, Bydgoszcz (PL) Promotional Film Contest, Wroclaw (PL) [special award] 2007 Made in Poland: Contemporary Pinhole Photography, Boston (USA) Promotional Film Contest, Wroclaw (PL) [second award] 2006 Photography workshops, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Bialystok (PL) 2004 Award in Edward Hartwig s Photo Award, Lublin (PL) [first award] 2003 Offensiva Film Festival, Wroclaw (PL) [special award] publications, texts: Amy Wilder, Blurring the Lines: Alchemical Ensemble show focuses on obscure processes (w:) Columbia Daily Tribune (25.10.2015) Jeśli wszystko się powtarza w Centrum Kultury Zamek, Magazyn Szum (23.08.2014) Karolina Kolenda, Ślad jest śladem, jest śladem, jest śladem (w:) Fragile (22.02.2014) Piotr Zdybał, Dramat nieustajacej semiozy (w:) Magazyn Szum (03.03.2014) Julita Kwaśniak, Szept wspomnień. Wystawa prac Tomasza Dobiszewskiego (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza (18.02.2014) Anna Stec, Miara nieuporządkowania katalog entropii sztuki (w:) Obieg.pl (31.12.2013) Tomasz Dobiszewski, Krzysztof Siatka (w:) Desygnaty, Galeria Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków (20.12.2013) Krzysztof Siatka, Raport o postrzeganiu, O.PL, 4 grudnia 2012 Tomasz Dobiszewski, Fiksacje (w:) Fragile. Pismo Kulturalne, listopad 2012 kaba, Artysta niczym Big Brother? (w:) Express Bydgoski, Bydgoszcz 4 listopada 2012 Adrianna Babijczuk, Dobiszewski: spójrz tam, gdzie zwykle nie patrzysz (w:) Art & Business 2 listopada 2012 Fiksacje (w:) Notes.na.6.tygodni #80 Nowa wystawa w bwa. Oglądaj Fiksacje Dobiszewskiego (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Bydgoszcz 2 listopada 2012 Tomasz Dobiszewski, Fiksacje (w:) Bydgoski Informator Kulturalny, listopad 2012 Emilia Iwanciw, Wystawa: Od etyki po technologie (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Bydgoszcz 15 listopada 2010 Krzysztof Siatka, Movemental (w:) Take me, nr 06/2010 Agnieszka Kwiecień, Shadowplay o swoim nowym projekcie opowiada Tomasz Dobiszewski, O.PL, 25 luty 2010 Dobiszewski zagra z cieniem w Elektrowni (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Radom 18 lutego 2010 Tomasz Dobiszewski, Ankieta La Biennale di Venezia, O.PL, 16 listopada 2009 Katarzyna Kamińska, Dzieje grzechu, czyli rzecz o grzesznej miłości (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Wrocław 19 stycznia 2009 Łukasz Gazur, Podszewka Teraźniejszości (w:) Sztuka.pl grudzień/styczeń 2008/2009 nr 12/13 Krzysztof Siatka, Teraz! Artyści Galerii Foto-Medium-Art (w:) Kwartalnik rzeźby Orońsko nr 4 (73) 2008 Takiej wystawy zdjęć jeszcze u nas nie było (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Bydgoszcz 03 września 2008 Dorota Suwalska, Camera obscura, odwrócony obraz rzeczywistości (w:) Kwartalnik Wyspa nr 3(3) październik 2007 Zbigniew Tomaszczuk, Made in Poland, współczesna fotografia otworkowa (w:) Kwartalnik Fotografia nr 23 / 2007 Bydgoscy fotografowie wystawiali się w Ameryce (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Bydgoszcz 08 marca 2007 Shawn Hill, Deliberate Developments, Old Techniques (w:) Art New England June/July 2007 Chloe Zimmerman, Catching a blurry glimpse of Poland (w:) Tufts Daily 2/9/07 Fotografia oworkowa w Bostonie (w:) Life of Polonia 02/16/2007 Marta Eloy Cichocka, Sztuka, Tekstylia Bis - Słownik młodej polskiej kultury / 2006 Sabina Czajkowska, Palingenesis Tomasz Dobiszewskiego (w:) Arteon nr 11(79) / 2006 Tomasz Dobiszewski, Dominika Mróz, Dwa projekty (w:) Kwartalnik Fotografia nr 21 / 2006 Finał konkursu Obraz roku 2005 (w:) Art&Business - 3 / 2006 Festiwal Fotografii Kreacyjnej inspiracje (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Szczecin 30 marca 2006 Ogólnopolski Konkurs Fotograficzny w Pałacu Młodzieży (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Bydgoszcz 27 stycznia 2006 Michał Lasota, Polowanie bez mapy (w:) Exit - nr3 (63) 2005 Zbigniew Tomaszczuk, Przestrzeń zamknięta w kadry fotografii (w:) Przestrzenie fotografii - antologia tekstów / 2005 Wydarzenia (w:) Pozytyw nr 11 (64) listopad 2004 Zbigniew Tomaszczuk, Kilka uwag na temat kolekcjonowania fotografii (w:) Gazeta Antykwaryczna nr11(104) 2004 Zbigniew Tomaszczuk (w:) Fotografie. Fotografia otworkowa z kolekcji Z.T., Typoscript / 2004 Grzegorz Józefczuk, Rozstrzygnięcie konkursu im. Edwarda Hartwiga (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Lublin 23 listopada 2004 XII Festiwal Inner Spaces (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Poznań 23 września 2004 Gdzie warto się wybrać w czwartek i piątek w Poznaniu (w:) Gazeta Wyborcza, Poznań 22 września 2004