Piotr Szpilski was born in 1988 in Polkowice, Poland.Currently, he lives in Poznan, where he studies at the Academy Of Fine Arts. Piotr’s interests include: writing, photos, installations, collages, and videos. In his works he deals with the issues of masculinity and sexuality of men in his own life, as well as in popular culture.
SOLO SHOWS
2011 BEAUTIFUL SON, Poznanska Galeria Nowa, Stowarzyszenia Twórczego NOWA NOWA, Poland
BEAUTIFUL SON, Gallery BWA Wroclaw, Poland
2009 MET BARTEK AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, Gallery BWA Wroclaw, Poland
GROUP SHOWS
2012 Drawing x drawing x drawing,Studio Gallery Free Choice, Zielona Gora, Poland
Speace, Bunkier Gallery, Krakow, Poland
2011 OFF / / COURSE, Cvernovka Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia (part of OFFFESTIVAL PHOTO)
2011 Alienation, Vilnius, Lithuania
2010 781 Kilometers, Vilnius, Lithuania
Love - situations when I use censorship in order to highlight the information that i find important by covering it. These situations appear as an anticensorship of the consciousness, a moment when I impose the censorship. Piotr Szpilski
The newest project of Piotr Szpilski needs a big amount of nutrients, it likes rich soil, sandy and earthen, with a pH close to 7-8. That is why it reminds me of a beautiful chrysanthemum. Leszek Knaflewski Love is a specific bricolage created from already existing meanings, dreams, and imaginations. Szpilski cuts, paints, consolidates photographs taken from 1970s porn magazines. The Available gestures and poses seen through a layer of acrylic paint set limits of possible experience. photography from magazines is a means of communal identity and the determiner of cultural discourse; the human body - the determiner of individual narrative of the self. Both fields of manipulation -photography and the body- covered with paint, congeal, become still, determine the possible repertoire of behavior. Szpilski abstracts the given matter from darkness. What is hung in the hyper real situations is time and space, body, words, and emotions. The gesture is half alive shaped into a mythological history. Bricolage exists as a side effect, but is constructive, congestive and original. In a limited frame of experience we constantly elicit cliches, retouching, remaking, custom-making oneself from already existing patterns. Acts of freedom is a creative acceptance, an ambivalent movement of acceptance and rejection. Human body becomes a space of acting; paintbrush easily slips through the photographs. Delete, erase, cover… Agata Dąbrowska