Olaf Brzeski\u2019s artistic narrative could begin like this: \u2018In the beginning was the subject\u2019 \u2013 meaning a distinct, virtually modernist, authorial Self. The question whether such a construed, ostentatiously individualistic subject is not perhaps a reactionary figure is better left to those who like to judge art in terms of progress. Defying the logic of progress, Brzeski\u2019s work is largely based on the gesture of returning. It is a return to certain traditional categories, often repressed from the conscious mind, a step back \u2013 towards instinct, desire and anxiety, towards the primitive, and eluding the rigours of social organisation. His returns to traditional sculptural categories are free from nostalgia for the \u201cgood old\u201d order of art. If Brzeski returns to all that (to the unconscious and the primitive as well as to sculpture) it is because he believes that these areas hold untapped resources, unresolved issues and sources of self-knowledge that can still be drawn from.<\/p>\n
Stach Szab\u0142owski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-17081","kb_artist","type-kb_artist","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"article_image":17079,"article_image_bu_de":"Out of Love For a Woman, steel, Aluminium, \u00d6lfarbe, 450 x 290 x 350 cm, 2012","article_image_bu_en":"Out of Love For a Woman, Steel, aluminium, oil paint, 450 x 290 x 350 cm, 2012","datum_suche":"2014-10-14 09:51:17"},"yoast_head":"\n