Bartłomiej Kiełbowicz
Building Diary
It all started with a photograph of an old burnt wooden house which Kiełbowicz took somewhere near Warsaw. Completely burnt down, the house’s roofing revealed the remains of the roof truss, however the structure of the walls remained almost intact. Later, the artist’s collection was expanded to include photographs showing American wooden detached houses after a hurricane which have fallen apart like a house of cards, photographs of wrapped houses, houses only being built, bristling with shoring boards and supports, photographs of houses from Canada, where his father lives, house designs from the book Budownictwo stalowe w Polsce do końca Drugiej Wojny Światowej [Polish Steel Architecture Until the End of the Second World War] (by Eugeniusz Śledziewski, Gliwice 1979), and many others. All this documentation of the creative process, including drawings, photocopies, prints, projects and sketches, will be presented at the Project Room exhibition next to the effects of Bartek Kiełbowicz’s artistic quests: nine large-format paintings. “What I am interested in is the wonderful impossibility of order, the moment of transition from one state to another when everything which has been carefully organized shatters,” says the artist.
