Opening Reception - Przemek Pyszczek: Białystok

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Przemek Pyszczek, "Playground Structure (Wedge)," 2015

lacquered steel, photo courtesy of Office Baroque

opening reception on Thursday, March 29 from 7-10pm.

On Tuesday, April 3, Pyszczek will give an exhibition tour in Polish at 6pm, followed by an artist talk in English at 7pm. RSVP for the Polish tour is required.

Powder-coated colours of steel-poles shape a centralized geometric form in Białystok - Przemek Pyszczek’s first solo exhibition in Canada. Heavily influenced by the architectural and civic structures from his birth town Białystok in Poland, Pyszczek builds a colourful, sprawling and unified sculpture that simultaneously captures a conformity and resistance to public housing infra-structures in Communist Poland, which turned from grey into an explosion of colour post the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Przemek Pyszczek is a Polish-born, Canadian-raised artist currently based in Poland. Through architecturally inspired sculptures, installations and paintings Pyszczek’s work traces Poland’s transition since the fall of the Iron Curtain and also serves as an ongoing journey to rediscover his own past. He obtained his Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Manitoba in 2007. Pyszczek’s work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, most recently presenting a solo exhibition at Galerie Derouillon, Paris. His work has been included in Forever Never Comes, Museo Archeologico e d’Arte della Maremma, Grosseto, Italy; 1989 Belenius, Stockholm; Sandomir, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles; Industrius, Window Gallery, Winnipeg; Building Systems, Berthold Pott, Cologne; and Corporalitas, Open Forum, Berlin.