‘Proposals for a Show’ at Wschód Gallery

“There is nothing more evil than announcing what you will do, and then doing exactly that” 

JD

This is a collection of unrealized exhibition proposals – half-baked half-ideas and future ruins collapsed on top of each other. Since the number of canceled or postponed exhibitions has reached infinity, we are emancipated from the future. We ought to use present as a future tense and at the same time allow number of artists to decide how exhibitions will look like. Cherish the faith in fiction and speculation along with the need to conjure the future. It is a compilation of projects that may look best on paper, proposals thrown into garbage bin or hidden in drawers while still waiting for the right context. Here, the art is understood as a tool for constituting increasingly efficient concise metaphors and compression.

Tomasz Mróz, Szkice do projektu, 2011, inkjet print on photographic paper, 20 x 30 cm *unrealised ark proposal

Proposals for a show”, exhbition view, 2020

Tomasz Mróz, Szkice do projektu, 2011, inkjet print on photographic paper, 20 x 30 cm *unrealised ark proposal

Proposals for a show”, exhbition view, 2020

Mark Leckey, Prop4aShw, 2010, hd video, '4:00 *’This is a proposal for a show, which is going to happen at some point [...]’

Daniel Koniusz, untitled, 2020, speakers, sound *unfinished soundscape made out of all possible groove locks

Christoph Meier, untitled (Cavalli), 2020, glazed clay, 12 parts *proposal for a horse show at MuseumsQuartier, Vienna

Christoph Meier, untitled (Cavalli), 2020, glazed clay, 12 parts *proposal for a horse show at MuseumsQuartier, Vienna

Proposals for a show”, exhbition view, 2020

Agnieszka Mastalerz, no mental scars, no nursed grudges, 2019, parachute fabric, tape, needle *cut outs for performance uniforms in Avion Hotel, Brno

Maria Loboda, ...triumphant, 2020, painted mural, 240 x 140 cm *a phrase that was never used in a title of a work

„Proposals for a show”, exhbition view, 2020

Jan Domicz, „Walkway”, 2020, inkjet print on photographic paper, framed, 50 x 70 cm *proposal for a show along a moving walkway

„Proposals for a show”, exhbition view, 2020

Zbigniew Gostomski, „It begins in Wrocław”, 1970, inkjetprint on photographic paper, 50 x 70 cm *proposal for the Visual Arts Symposium Wrocław ‘70