The State of Image. Die Medienpioniere Zbigniew Rybczyński und Gábor Bódy | Vortrag

Sat, 05/26/2012

With Zbigniew Rybczyński (*1949), the film program introduces the most important media pioneer from Poland to have developed within the tradition of the first European avant-garde.

Rybczyński may well be described as constructivist painter and sculptor, draftsman, designer and even engineer of the new image-time-space which he created. His films and video work make spatial and temporal dimensions experienceable, which the familiar media world does not offer.

“Zbigniew Rybczyński not only knows all techniques of artistic image construction, but he draws on all of them. I know of no present-day artist so technically ingenious and so artistically creative as Rybczyński: more to the point, he is so artistically creative because he disposes over inimitable technical virtuosity and bravura.” (Peter Weibel)

The film program relates directly to the exhibition “The State of Image” in which – as shown in the example of two outstanding inventors, filmmakers and media artists Zbigniew Rybczyński and Gábor Bódy – a new evaluation of the artistic and technical innovation in image research spanning the period between the 1960s and 1980s was undertaken.