20/11/2024
film premiere and discussion
De Rerum Natura (The Call of Infinity)
Jarosław Faliński and Edward Łazikowski
- Everything is a fragment. There is no whole. There is no beginning or end. A versatile artist, Edward Łazikowski creates drawings in wood dust. They disappear when the wind blows. The film De Rerum Natura. The Call of Infinity, directed by Jarosław Faliński, presents a performance by Łazikowski, where he draws in dust, records the work, and then ritually destroys it. The artist and the author of the film are interested in notions of impermanence, transience, and re-emergence, always in different forms, without beginning or end. Łazikowski has developed a theory and practice of art focused on the infinite divisibility of the world’s particles, on chance and the non-existence of an end. In the film, he pays tribute to movement, the most powerful phenomenon in the universe.
- The screening will be followed by a meeting with Edward Łazikowski.
- Edward Łazikowski
- (b. 1939) is a versatile artist, author of drawings, paintings, performances, photographic and video works. He creates objects and installations, and develops a theory of reality. A graduate of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Łódź and educator, he presented his performances, among others, at the Ślad Gallery in Łódź and at the Moltkerei Verkstatt Gallery in Cologne.
- Jarosław Faliński
- (b. 1957) is a filmmaker. A graduate of the State Higher School of Film, Theatre and Television in Łódź, he is an author of some 25 films about artists, philosophers, science, and scholars. He also worked with director Grzegorz Królikiewicz.
