On May 13, the opening day of “Transformation” exhibition in Freiburg (Germany) there were displayed works of a sculptor from Berlin – Karl Menzen. The exhibition opening was supported with music by Holst quartet, followed by the sculptor who shared with the viewers some details of his work.
Museum Fondation Beyeler in the town of Riehen (Switzerland) holds an exhibition of two outstanding representatives of the modernism era: Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon.
I distinctly remember the first time that I saw an installation from the Polish artist Alicja Kwade at Art Basel in 2016. I walked around her work for a long time, surprised by the simultaneous static and dynamic of her work “Out of Ousia”. This installation literally was pushing familiar boundaries of reality that were changing and forming together with the movements of the viewer. Relatively simple structure, consisting of a concrete wall, two-sided mirrors, stones and tree branches, shows four dimensions of an object and its reflection in the mirror. Depending on location of the viewer, one can see only one or two ‘sections’ at the same time, and even realizing that the other sides of the objects exist we will never be able to see and perceive this work as a whole.