Kinetic composition with oil

The concept of a kinetic work was born during a study of a musical composition. The kinetic composition with oil is a formal change which, like music, happens in time. In order to avoid illustrating The Solitude of Sounds by Tomasz Sikorski, I chose the musical transformation of this piece as the main principle of my work. The aforementioned transformation in Sikorski’s Solitude of Sounds can be presented as a vast black lake, which with the growing number of sound stimuli becomes a monumental, dominant sound obelisk. One of the most important sources of inspiration has also been the disaster of 1937 – the fall of the Hindenburg airship. The fire of a perfect artefact and its transformation into a heap of burnt scrap metal illustrate the dramatic transformation of a form saturated with emotion. The presented work uses motion in a similar way to create its own tension, it tells the stories about its own matter. It rises, grows and assumes a dominant role towards the viewer when its height begins to exceed theirs, and then it reaches its zenith and falls. It is like a looped musical piece that you can experience forever. The shape of the work depends on the target space in which it is located; variant of the work is the annex: Compositon for MSN

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Michał Majdak’s work was inspired by the musical piece by Tomasz Sikorski, and although it contains an acoustic expression, it is an autonomous statement by the sculptor, who eloquently operates matter and space. Majdak’s installation is both dada “rude” and “pedantically” accurate, it is also open to subseqent exhibition incarnations. Its repetitivness, economy of form and the assumed element of chance make it ulimately also (and only also) an interpretation of Sikorski’s minimalist composition, avoiding being a superficial illustration. A nonchalant combination of “DIY-maker” and insightful researcher.

Special thanks for Andrzej Kokosza and Łukasz Ocypa for the help with the mechanism’s design.

The work has been exhibited during the Coming Out Best Degree Pieces Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw 2018 exhibition in Praga Koneser Center. It was open between 30.11 and 21.12.2018.

Kinetic composition with oil, along with the work of Agnieszka Bielak, were selected as best, by the jury, and awarded a joint exhibition, that has taken place in Salon Akademii gallery in 2019.

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