Pawel Althamer | "Retrospective", 2008 | (for Parkett 82)
A ‘retrospective’ of twelve cast tin figures, which represent characters from various videos and performances by the artist, and sit inside a custom-made cardboard suitcase.
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Parkett Vol. 82
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“Althamer becomes a part of his medium, in both a material and spiritual sense. It is as though he invites us to share in a waking experience of lucid dreaming where ordinary rules do not apply and where we may begin to become newly absorbed by our surroundings with an acute, hallucinatory perceptiveness.”
Catherine Wood, Parkett 82, 2008
”Retrospective”, 2008 (for Parkett 82)
12 tin figures, each approx. 1 1/8 to 3 1/2“ (3,5–9 cm) high,
cast by Michal Nowicki, Warsaw, in custom-made cardboard suitcase,
6 5/8 x 9 1/2 x 3 1/8“ (17,5 x 24 x 8 cm),
Ed. 38/XXV, signed and numbered certificate
Very limited availability
A ‘retrospective’ of twelve cast tin figures, which represent characters from various videos and performances by the artist, and sit inside a custom-made cardboard suitcase.
Read a Parkett Text on Pawel Althamer
Parkett Vol. 82
Quote from Parkett
“Althamer becomes a part of his medium, in both a material and spiritual sense. It is as though he invites us to share in a waking experience of lucid dreaming where ordinary rules do not apply and where we may begin to become newly absorbed by our surroundings with an acute, hallucinatory perceptiveness.”
Catherine Wood, Parkett 82, 2008
”Retrospective”, 2008 (for Parkett 82)
12 tin figures, each approx. 1 1/8 to 3 1/2“ (3,5–9 cm) high,
cast by Michal Nowicki, Warsaw, in custom-made cardboard suitcase,
6 5/8 x 9 1/2 x 3 1/8“ (17,5 x 24 x 8 cm),
Ed. 38/XXV, signed and numbered certificate
Very limited availability
A ‘retrospective’ of twelve cast tin figures, which represent characters from various videos and performances by the artist, and sit inside a custom-made cardboard suitcase.
Read a Parkett Text on Pawel Althamer
Parkett Vol. 82
Quote from Parkett
“Althamer becomes a part of his medium, in both a material and spiritual sense. It is as though he invites us to share in a waking experience of lucid dreaming where ordinary rules do not apply and where we may begin to become newly absorbed by our surroundings with an acute, hallucinatory perceptiveness.”
Catherine Wood, Parkett 82, 2008
”Retrospective”, 2008 (for Parkett 82)
12 tin figures, each approx. 1 1/8 to 3 1/2“ (3,5–9 cm) high,
cast by Michal Nowicki, Warsaw, in custom-made cardboard suitcase,
6 5/8 x 9 1/2 x 3 1/8“ (17,5 x 24 x 8 cm),
Ed. 38/XXV, signed and numbered certificate
Very limited availability
Browse images of all twelve of the figures in Pawel Althamer’s “Retrospective”:
The figures in Pawel Althamer’s “Retrospective” reference the following performances:
Figure 1: Untitled, solo exhibition in Cieszyn, 1995
Figure 2: The Dancers (fragment), 1997
Figure 3: Self-portrait as an embryo, 2006
Figure 4: Paweł and Weronika (his daughter) at the Vistula beach, from the series Sunbathers, 2002
Figure 5: Cosmonaut, 1995
Figure 6: Winged (the figure in a clothing prepared for the flight over Warsaw with Nowolipie Group), 2008
Figure 7: Observator, 1995
Figure 8: Cardinal, diploma work, 1991
Figure 9: Self-portrait as a bussinesman (Sony Center Berlin), 2002
Figure 10: Mezalia, 2010
Figure 11: Abram and Buruś, 2008
Figure 12: Untitled, student plen air in Dłużew, 1991
Artist Document
In this sketch Pawel Althamer drew ten of the twelve figures from earlier projects, videos and performances, included in "Retrospective", his set of 12 cast tin figures for Parkett 82.
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