AZORRO GROUP
| Oskar Dawicki Igor Krenz Wojciech Niedzielko Lukasz Skapski |
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SATURDAY, MAY 8. 2004 AT 7PM
THE AZORRO GROUP VISITS SPARWASSER HQ
VIDEO SCREENING (DURATION 85 MINUTES)
ARTISTS TALK AT 8:45PM
Before joining together, the four artists who make up Azorro each gained individual recognition as specialists of art and art media. As a group, they bring together diverse skills in installation, objects, performance, photography, painting, and video arts.
The members of Azorro collaborated first in 2001, producing the short film "We Like it a lot." They submitted this film to the "4 rooms" exhibition in Bunkier Sztuki, Kraków, and were pleased to receive critical acclaim for their work. Through the production of several other joint projects, it became clear the artists worked well together, and that sharing artistic responsibility produced provoking results. They decided to formalize the relationship and Azorro was born. Azorro's aim is the generation of delight, understood as the entelechy of communication.
Invitation and organization
by REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
CV - AZORRO GROUP
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
2004 Galeria Priestor for Contemporary
Arts, Bratislava
2003 Trafo Gallery, Budapest
2003 The House of Arts, Brno
2003 Display Gallery, Prague
2003 "Everything has been done", Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
2003 Paula Boettcher Gallery, Berlin
2003 Deutscher Kunstlerbund, Berlin
2002 CSW Laznia, Gdansk
2002 BWA Gallery, Szczecin
2002 BWA Gallery, Zielona Gora
2002 Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok
2002 Entropia Gallery, Wroclaw
2002 Raster Gallery, Warsaw
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
2004 "Boys and Girls", Galeria Zacheta, Warszawa
2004 "New Video, New Europe." The Renaissance Society,
Chicago
2004 "Observatory", Palais im Grossen Garten, Dresden
2004 "Process", Kiasma Museum, Helsinki
2003 FONA Festival of New Art, Rijeka
2003 Prague Biennale 1, National Gallery, Prague
2003 Video Zone @ LX Pt, Lisboa
2003 l' Epicerie, Teatr Academia, Warsaw
2003 Radiator, Festival for New Media Art, Nottingham
2003 WRO 03 International Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw
2003 "Public Rituals" Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung
Ludwig, Wien
2003 Transmediale 03, Berlin
2003 Backfabrik, Berlin
2002 "Video-Zone" 1st international video-art biennial,
Tel Aviv
2002 Polyphony of Voices conference, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
2002 Polskie wideo / Project Space, Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria
2002 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
2002 Modelarnia, Gdansk
2002 Polen 2002, Karlsruhe, Germany
2002 12 Film Festival, Cottbus, Germany
2002 Polski film / video, Dusseldorf, Germany
2002 Rowelucja, Raster Gallery, Warsaw
2002 Novart, Krakow
2002 Galerie der Marktgemeinde, St. Johan, Austria
2002 Polish Art, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2002 Abzug Festival, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
2002 "Magisters & Friends", Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
2002 "Four rooms" Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow
FILMOGRAPHY
BARDZO NAM SIE PODOBA [WE LIKE
IT A LOT]
color, 7:30, 2001
Production: Azorro
Language: Polish with English subtitles
A group tour trough Warsaw' s contemporary art galleries; a fruitful
insight into a critical discourse about criteria of art evaluation.
MIARA JAKOÂCI [AZORRO
STANDARD]
color, 13:30, 2002
Production: Azorro
Language: Polish with English subtitles
A group examination of the Bunkier gallery in Kraków;
a critical discourse about criteria of gallery evaluation.
CZY ARTYÂCIE WOLNO WSZYSTKO?
[IS AN ARTIST ALLOWED TO DO ANYTHING? ]
color, 7:12, 2002
Production: Azorro
Language: Polish with English subtitles
A group excercise in Warsaw; a discourse with provocative art
strategies.
PROPOZYCJA [PROPOSAL]
color, 1:45, 2002
Production: Azorro
Language: Polish with English subtitles
HAMLET
color, 7:00, 2002
Production: Azorro
Language: English
Creative approach to Hamlet
PORTRET Z KURATOREM [PORTRAIT
WITH A CURATOR ]
color, 7:37, 2002
Production: Azorro
Language: Polish with English subtitles
Azorro group visits openings, having portrais with curators done.
KINIEC SZTUKI [END OF ART]
color, 2:46, 2002
Production: Azorro
Language: Polish with English subtitles
Ironic comment the postmodern art situation.
THE BEST GALLERY
color, 35:00, 2002
Production: Azorro
Language: English and Polish with English subtitles
Documents the activities of four Polish artists searching for
the best gallery in Berlin. It is an ironic and contrariwise
odyssey: four Polish artists checking out available information,
asking passers-by in the streets and visiting galleries in the
search of the one.
MOVING LOGO + PEGAZ PRESENTS
color, 1:42, 2002
Production: Azorro
Language: Polish with English subtitles
HIC ET NUNC
color, 3:30, 2002
Production: Azorro
Language: Polish with English subtitles
Hipnotic dialog with the cinema tradition.
PYXIS SYSTEMATIS DOMICI QUID
VIDEO DICITUR (VHS CASSETTE) [KASETA VHS]
color, 39:00, 2003
Production: Azorro/MuMoK Ludwig Stiftung Wien
Language: Latin with English subtitles
Documents the Azorro group's journey from Cracow to Vienna, with
the aim to deliver their VHS cassette to the exhibition in Ludwig
Museum. In all the countries Latin is spoken in the streets.
AWARIA [AVERAGE]
Color 9:00, 2004
Production: Azorro
Language: none
All went wrong.
NIECH SIE DZIEJE CO CHCE [WHAT
WILL BE WILL BE]
Color 9:00, 2004
Production: Azorro
Language: Polish with English subtitles
After 2 months of growing mustache the Azorro group members go
fishing.