The exhibition “0.33 m2 of Pure Field of Art” presents three parallel photographic projects of artist Leopold Duszka-Kołcz. One of them, “Table Gallery”, started in 1983, and the remaining two projects (“Open Field of Art”, and “Traces of Art in the middle of nowhere”) formed in 1995. For over twenty years, the artist works and theoretically determines his activities outside the traditional gallery. His observations are about exploration of art in its pure forms, without political and social conditions.
Leopold Duszka-Kołcz says about his art: *”(…) Once or twice a year for ten years I have appeared in selected places and deliberately disturbed their natural order. These were not drastic measures, because I did not mean it. Rather, interference as the delicate touch of the water, more to sense than to look for rings or waves. It is my constant desire for the alignment of internal and external space through resources available to me. In this case, the outer space was a genuine openness to the field that is for me the truest architecture, devoided from utilitarian function, and indifferent to my momentary interference. With time I could stop those short events in two-dimensional photograph, if I remembered to do it … *
Leopold Duszka-Kołcz was born in 1954 in Wroclaw. In 1983 he graduated from Wroclaw’s Academy of Fine Arts. At the turn of the seventies and eighties he created the Centre of Light. At the end of its activities, for a short period in the eighties, he has been associated with the Wroclaw’s gallery Zaklad nad Fosa and Action Gallery in Warsaw. For last twenty years he has lived and worked in New York.