Piotr Wyrzykowski
Comunnostalgies
The work was shown at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in 2005, at the collective exhibition Beyond the Red Horizon, which presented works by artists from Poland and Russia. It is an installation consisting of three lightboxes and two monitors with video projections. Incorporating elements from the constructivist collages of the Soviet avant-garde artist Alexander Rodchenko and the poems of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Wyrzykowski has juxtaposed them with footage of gymnastic arrangements (pyramids) performed by athletes from a circus school and elements of the gritty reality of the former Soviet Union, such as exercises in an outdoor gym constructed of steel elements, resembling a scrapyard. The work was shot in Kyiv.
Piotr Wyrzykowski aka Peter Style
(b. 1968) a visual artist, performer and stage designer, the author of videos, multimedia performances, interactive installations, online and public projects. He studied interior design in 1989–1991 and then painting in 1991–1995 in the Intermedia Class of Prof. Witosław Czerwonka at the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, where he earned his master’s degree. He currently works as a lecturer at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in
Gdańsk. He is a co-founder and artistic director of the collective C.U.K.T.
(Central Office of Technical Culture), which pioneered the use of internet reach for artistic activities (Wiktoria Cukt Presidential Campaign, 2001).