Drzonów-Zielona Góra, 25.05.2008, Lubuskie Military Museum in Zielona Góra with the location in Drzonów
The organizers: The director of the LMW.
My special thanks I send to Dr. Włodzimierz Kwaśniewicz.
According to the circumstances, as well as the actual goings-on, which determine the consciousness of the society, the art of all fields has always kept a certain position. As living part of human mind she could has identified and supported or fight against a hostile or deceptive idea. Art has always been an interpretation of human soul, therefore it’s natural, that her noble character could has been infected by, for instance, a betrayal (Socialist Realism, etc.). The whole history of art is just a living scribe of human thought. The acts only written in the common history appear poorly, and even stagnantly.
And because of that one can’t overestimate the role of artistic communication, where next to fact, there is the place for a subjective contemplation too. What is written starts to live. But art doesn’t have to go to extremes – she has to be neither radically illustrative, nor abstractive. One shouldn’t interpret a painting only with the archetypical symbols, because even if it has a big feature meaning, it remains only as a medium, that same like oil paint on canvas.
On the other hand, just the tools – formal and course – let reach the essence, which nature is obvious and sensible, but closed for full understanding and clarification. Those are the ambience, and the atmosphere, where only art has access. These values will not be written neither in any department nor in encyclopaedia. For them art will always live, and die along with human – naturally or by separation from consciousness – the death of the humanism.
Therefore, the purpose I have chosen in my painting is the will of the most effective acting on the mind of my recipients. Not only by opposition to evil in the world, as well as destroying and reversing the values, but on showing the correlation of the antinomian notions. Following after Stanislaw Lem, about the problem of the oscillation of the feedback amplitude – which reveals to the cybernetics, and which touches more and more our times. Speaking by paintings, I want to build my own notion of metaphysics, which is just the language of my artistic speech. Because the formal elements come from my consciousness of the world. Composing them together as music, I am going to reach the quaint series o the stories by combination of the form with the expression and the thought. The most important is truth, which has not to be beautiful. But beauty has to be good, otherwise it would be false.
Bogumił Hoder, 2008
