exhibited with gallery program:


■  artefiera / group 2007
■  art cologne  / group 2006
■  viennafair  / group 2006
■  artefiera / group 2006
■  integration / group 2005
■  preview berlin / group 2002
■  art poznań 05 / group 2005
■  art poznań 04 / group 2005
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Tatiana Czekalska was born in Łódź where she not only currently resides and works but also earned her degree at the Academy of Fine Arts.  Originally from Świebodzice, Leszek Golec now lives and works in Łódź at the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko. He earned his diploma at the Warsaw School of Photography and since 1996, has been working with Tatiana Czekalska.
Their artistic works, for artistic and philosophic reasons, can usually be compared to the trends of meditating artists.  They use their works to shine a fresh light on various interchanging disciplines, focusing on honest existence in its tiniest manifestations. They have a very clear ecological awareness and search for harmony within nature and the protection of life. Very often, the events focus around animals and their correspondence to that of mankind.  The spaces, objects and relations are always sociable in character and often create a soft climate for any shy living creatures.  Through their activities, Czekalska and Golec express a humble way of life. They show us a world where we can overcome sight with our own eyes, where we can identify ourselves with other creatures, and if given the chance, can possibly even apply their loving declaration of coexistence. Their works are executed in the form of sculptures, photography, events, and installations.

  ■ presentation of works                                                                 

OBJECTS

                 
Columbarium 1997 bronze,  / fotos from: 5th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey, 1997 and Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1998 
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AVATAR'S COLLECTION
GOLD & SILVER INSTRUMENTS
FOR THE SAFE TY OF TINY SMALL BEINGS 
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Czekalska & Golec’s sculptures are of an unusual beauty.  Very often made of precious metals, they are defined by the medium that has brought them into existence.



COLUMBARIUM 1997
exhibited in  5th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul,Turkey, 1997
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1998, National Gallery of Sculpture, Orońsko, Poland

Columbaria are painstakingly created forms in the shape of a dish, created by the division of a ball into four perfect parts. Each quarter is placed on top of the other and installed on the facade of a particular building. There are mini cameras and microphones placed inside and life is then filmed. Columbaria are shelter for birds wandering through the deserts of our cities. They are the special pockets that provide a safe place for rest and recovery. What happens within these pockets not only serves the birds but the everyday man as well. Picture and sound are transmitted through a broadcasting system and can be transferred to an office space, a church or a museum. With this, healing vibrations of the sound and therapeutic beauty of the pictures soothe the neurotic world that continues running outside these havens.

AVARARS COLLECTION 2000

exhibited in Program Gallery  ■  INTEGRATION
text from  the catalogue by PhD Kazimierz Piotrowski

For many years now, Tatiana Czekalska and Leszek Golec have been creating sophisticated design that is friendly towards the smallest of creatures, offering tools designed for anything from the moving of insects, to the installing of one's own columbaria. Their projects, based on years of study and observation, help to monitor how their subjects react to form, color, aroma, magnetism, the entire sphere located just beyond the threshold of our sensitivity.  The two artists decided they want to pit themselves against the cruelty of animals.   
It's not about the killing of animals so that we can survive but rather the sensibility and dignity that both the hunter and the victim lack.
The combined work is also an experiment of beauty, displayed in order to feed our over-sophisticated taste. Their art is more than the practice of their belief reincarnated but the invoking of human compassion.  

PHOTOGRAPHY


Avatar Bio/Logical II,
Clara  photography, plexi,
pcv board / edition of 10 pcs
size  100 x 40 cm
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Avatar Bio/Logical II,
Sophie & Daisy photography, 
plexi, pcv board /edition of 10 pcs
size  100 x 40 cm
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The photographs of Czekalska and Golec are a perceived documentation of the miracle taking place during their exhibitions. Pictures of animals are blurred and the shapes are then lit by a beam of light, creating an aura of light in the remaining area.  Animals are seen in close range and the lack of distance that prevents sharpness in the visual.  The view creates a feeling of real contact with the animals and allows for a strong, almost physical contact with the creature. Portrayed animals are often shown in spaces usually prohibited to them, such as a church or a museum. One might even say that the sanctuary in which they were placed deliberately recalls the thought of "God's creatures."
The movement captured by the photos indicates that living creatures can, at the same point in time, look both real and ghost-like.  This intersection of images has the potential to create feelings of presence, impermanence, or the shifting of an assumed shape. We recognize the figure, but it is the perception that transports us from realism and brings us far away from stereotypical thinking.  The mystery of life cannot simply be defined by simple interrelations, but more as a whole, constant, and intensely constructed composition.

INSTALLATIONS

     The Fifth Activity, 2000 - EXHIBITION OF AVATARS OR DEVICES SAVING PHYSICAL LIFE (OF THE RESCUED)
     AND SRIRITUAL LIFE (OF THE RESCUER)  - exhibition in Museum of Modern Art in Łódź  

IMPLANTS
[ANNEX ON ARCHITECTURES] VISIBLE:
implants in the wall [inhalation - exhalation] INVISIBLE:
ionizing air system EFFECT:
ionized air 250.000 ion/cm
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Red Cross, 2004  / exhibited in Moscow - Under Red And White Flag 2004 -
 print, frame with mosaic   ■  more works 

                                                                                                            
Czekalska and Golec execute their principles in installations that demonstrate the objects’ function and philosophy. Presented in detail with visuals and preceded by their equally thorough studies, the pair creates an ideal and welcoming environment for any form of life.

AVATARS EXHIBITION
Aneta Szyłak 2004  fragment from  texts to exhibition
■ THE FIFTH ACTIVITY
Museum of Modern Art in Łódź
"Fifth Element was one of the executions that used the largest number of matter; avatars and implants. The installation was located within the space of three exhibition rooms in a museum. A very precise and detailed instruction, made by the artists, described both the location of the objects and their functions. Each piece of the expression; having the light on, taking away the avatars, the height on which implants were placed had been specifically planned.  All presented objects were created with the idea of protecting life. The painstaking process and presentation explicitly indicated the importance and attention the authors were demonstrating for their problem. The audience is offered an array of beautiful objects that they must simply find how to use.  They are faced with a crucial decision.  The artists, showing us the way of change, then change common thinking towards the commonly unimportant life of an insect. One cannot be indifferent to the situation they created. The act of creation is something that consecrates and determines the importance of an event.  During the process of reaching the art, the self-improvement process takes place. At the end of the day, it is the art that explicitly distinguish the things that are important from those that are immersed in chaos. The division is absolute."

IMPLANTS
Aneta Szyłak 2004  fragment from  texts to exhibition ■ REMASTERING
Art in General, NY
“Golec and Czekalska have recently prepared the prototype of Avatar III.  A plastic glove with a ball-shaped swatter is set to be distributed from a number of easily accessible feeders.  It is a cheaper, supermarket version of Avatar I and II but has a better design.  The more aware visitor could notice, apart from the polyester mould of Avatar III, some mysterious, softly shaped holes in the walls of the gallery. Made of plaster and visible only to those looking from the outside, they had the smoothness and shape similar to that of the human body. The shape was loosely fixed into the structure of the wall and was said to have an internal area for small animals and insects to use for shelter."

RED CROSS
exhibited in 2004  
■ UNDER RED AND WHITE FLAG
National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
The art of the Red Cross event cannot be appropriately classified in just one way.  The event was funded by the profit received from the artists' previous exhibition of “Under the White and Red Flag” and was used towards the support of the victims of the war in Chechnya. Their payment was an first in the account to which donations for that purpose are still being collected. For the artists, this act of creation was another opportunity to display and show the importance of life.