Oskar Dawicki
Game Worth the Candle
Game Worth the Candle is styled after teleshopping TV. Dawicki touts Hide, a painting by Rafał Bujnowski, offering it for sale for 7,000 euros, in a package with a promotional film for an additional 2,500 euros. The value of the work is confirmed by art-market experts: Anda Rottenberg, Jarosław Suchan and Adam Szymczyk. To sell a single work, Dawicki uses an advertising format targeted at a wide audience, in the most expensive medium, i.e. television, which gives the undertaking a touch of the grotesque.
Oskar Dawicki
(b. 1971) a performance artist, the author of objects and videos. He studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (1991–1996), where he graduated in the class of Prof. Lech Wolski. From 2001 through 2010, he was a member of the artist collective Azorro. His life inspired a book by collaborating curators Łukasz Gorczyca and Łukasz Ronduda. He is also the main character in the feature-length film Performer.