A painterly description of transformations taking place in various architectural spaces.
Closing exhibition for my master diploma.
In connection with historical conditions, Wrocław has an extraordinary capital in the form of tens of thousands of flats, which after the end of the war were automatically recognized as state property. The pioneers were first located in buildings that survived the war without much damage, and the remaining buildings were inventoried, secured and, when the technical condition allowed, rebuilt. Growing demand and general poverty forced the authorities to locate more than one family in the vast apartments of the Breslauer bourgeoisie.
In Wrocław, there are currently about 42,000 municipal units in 1,515 buildings (as of December 31, 2012), which constitutes about 18% of the city’s housing stock. At the same time, as many as 84% of the buildings were built by 1940. The problem of living in buildings which are more than one hundred years old does not concern only their most often poor technical condition. The mere fact that they were designed in a different era poses many problems. They could include such mundane inconveniences as the lack of a lift or an underground parking space.
It is not without a reason that the topic of my thesis is based on the issue of symptoms. Symptoms as a phenomenon directly dependent on the event causing them does not determine this event, but only indicates what it is. In case of lack of knowledge about the phenomenon, its symptoms may be the only source of information, so that the phenomenon itself will be defined only on the basis of symptoms, so can symptoms replace the experience of the phenomenon? I am not interested in defining the mental state of the local community of Wrocław, but what effects it causes. I have chosen flats as the goal of my observations because they reflect the condition of the people who live in them, and in the case of Wrocław, they are additionally burdened with a difficult history. The paintings are made in oil-resin and acrylic technique on canvas. The main assumption is an attempt to describe the phenomena that occur in architecture, the source of which was the act or omission of a man, a former inhabitant, but also the owner. Above-average spaces hide traces of primeval beauty, the ravages of war or political changes. At the moment of selling the apartment and announcing the tender, the apartment is made available for inspection, which allows you to observe the state of the here and now, without precise knowledge of the previous tenants.
Symptomatic Paintings
professor Piotr Błażejewski
doctor Anna Kołodziejczyk
Architectural Entropy Symptoms
professor Paweł Jarodzki
doctor Kamil Moskowczenko