Wojtek Pusto艂a: Cut
The Cut exhibition is an attempt to present a microcosm of Carrara with its immanent element 鈥� marble. It's also an epilogue to the artist's full-length film White Cube (2018).
The title, Cut, can be translated in many ways, the particular meanings of which can be found at the exhibition. The most frequently used meaning in this context refers, first of all, to the cutting of marble blocks. Meaning associated with injury introduces a human factor into the story, related to craftsmen working physically in stone processing, but also to artists and their creative struggles and sometimes even wounded egos. Cut may also denote a reduction, referring to the brutal exploitation of minerals, literally reducing mountain massifs, but also to the scraps and remains of material, and to what remains on such a mountain, i.e. sludge and dust, which are used increasingly in industry.
Pusto艂a's exhibition is also a reflection on traditional values in art, such as beauty and respect for nature, the harmony of which the sculptors who come to Carrara try to reflect. On the other hand, marble is a gigantic industry driven by purely mercantile motives, resulting in conflicts and tensions among the people involved in the treatment of this white rock, including those with unfulfilled artistic dreams. It is not only to the struggle between the artist and his own artistic ambitions, against conservative values in contemporary art, but also to the expression of his great passion for the phenomenon of this stone, which Pusto艂a has devoted the recent years of his creative work.
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The Cut exhibition is an attempt to present a microcosm of Carrara with its immanent element 鈥� marble. It's also an epilogue to the artist's full-length film White Cube (2018).
The title, Cut, can be translated in many ways, the particular meanings of which can be found at the exhibition. The most frequently used meaning in this context refers, first of all, to the cutting of marble blocks. Meaning associated with injury introduces a human factor into the story, related to craftsmen working physically in stone processing, but also to artists and their creative struggles and sometimes even wounded egos. Cut may also denote a reduction, referring to the brutal exploitation of minerals, literally reducing mountain massifs, but also to the scraps and remains of material, and to what remains on such a mountain, i.e. sludge and dust, which are used increasingly in industry.
Pusto艂a's exhibition is also a reflection on traditional values in art, such as beauty and respect for nature, the harmony of which the sculptors who come to Carrara try to reflect. On the other hand, marble is a gigantic industry driven by purely mercantile motives, resulting in conflicts and tensions among the people involved in the treatment of this white rock, including those with unfulfilled artistic dreams. It is not only to the struggle between the artist and his own artistic ambitions, against conservative values in contemporary art, but also to the expression of his great passion for the phenomenon of this stone, which Pusto艂a has devoted the recent years of his creative work.
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