JA LISSITZKY | DEAR CANNIBALS
6 June - 27 July 2025
Contemporary Art Gallery BWA SOKÓŁ
vernissage:
6 June 2025, hour 18:00
Additional information:
6 June 2025 (Friday) at 6:00 pm. you are invited to join us for the opening of a new exhibition at the Contemporary Art Gallery (BWA) SOKÓŁ.
Exhibition running from 6th June to 27th July, 2025.
The title of the exhibition is an allusion to the poem “Letter to the Cannibals” (1958) by Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet, playwright and screenwriter, novelist, satirist and translator of Hungarian poetry, veteran of the Polish underground Home Army in World War II.
Ja Lissitzki’s Drawings and Paintings…
Ja Lissitzki’s drawings and paintings echo medieval visions of internal torments, entwined with the legacy of the surreal, pulsating with the obsession of body, drive and deformation. Oneric scenes are also filled with dark expressionism. (...) We penetrate aggressive compositions drawn with compulsive lines, evoking the universe of decomposition. This represents the world of disorientation and disintegration, subjected to constant change and deprived of order. Figures and symbols mingle, intertwined in an osmotic press and uncontrollable flow – without the interior or the exterior, without the center of frames. The mass of the composition reveals Siamese adhesions, hybrids, duplicated swollen limbs – as if the figure disintegrated and simultaneously experienced inborn proliferation. The trembling contour does not hold anything together – bodies and faces escape from it. We can observe the total decay of form which, if associated with the content, resembles Bosch’s decay of morals – and it occurs totally ostentatiously, therefore we cannot be sure whether this is a vision of onerous agony and atonement, or shameless sybaritism and carnival masquerade. The presented world is obsessed with “the bizarre,” the Dionysian element, and never rests.
Alicja Gołyźniak, fragment of the text from the exhibition catalogue
Ja Lissitzky
Born in 1990 in Elbląg, Poland. In 2018 he graduated from the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland with a Masters of Art degree.
His work has received international recognition, awarded the international M&C Saatchi Art for Change Prize in 2022 for Europe. He has presented his artwork in numerous exhibitions, both solo and group, i.a. in prestigious galleries in Berlin, London and Wrocław. He currently resides in Wrocław, Poland.
(bio t/r AK)
Ja Lissitzki’s Drawings and Paintings…
Ja Lissitzki’s drawings and paintings echo medieval visions of internal torments, entwined with the legacy of the surreal, pulsating with the obsession of body, drive and deformation. Oneric scenes are also filled with dark expressionism. (...) We penetrate aggressive compositions drawn with compulsive lines, evoking the universe of decomposition. This represents the world of disorientation and disintegration, subjected to constant change and deprived of order. Figures and symbols mingle, intertwined in an osmotic press and uncontrollable flow – without the interior or the exterior, without the center of frames. The mass of the composition reveals Siamese adhesions, hybrids, duplicated swollen limbs – as if the figure disintegrated and simultaneously experienced inborn proliferation. The trembling contour does not hold anything together – bodies and faces escape from it. We can observe the total decay of form which, if associated with the content, resembles Bosch’s decay of morals – and it occurs totally ostentatiously, therefore we cannot be sure whether this is a vision of onerous agony and atonement, or shameless sybaritism and carnival masquerade. The presented world is obsessed with “the bizarre,” the Dionysian element, and never rests.
Alicja Gołyźniak, fragment of the text from the exhibition catalogue
Ja Lissitzky
Born in 1990 in Elbląg, Poland. In 2018 he graduated from the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Poland with a Masters of Art degree.
His work has received international recognition, awarded the international M&C Saatchi Art for Change Prize in 2022 for Europe. He has presented his artwork in numerous exhibitions, both solo and group, i.a. in prestigious galleries in Berlin, London and Wrocław. He currently resides in Wrocław, Poland.
(bio t/r AK)
