Marcin Karwiński

Met zelfportret van 15 jaar geleden ging Jan Anoniem in gesprek met bezoekers over kwetsbaarheid, gevoelens, filosofie.....

Vibration - sound and light vibrate, they could be the same. Sound can bring images, emotions, feelings and memories. Sometimes you see sound with a vibrating speaker, sometimes you see lightning - combination of image, vibration and sound together. Eyes can hear speech instead of using ears to do so. How do you see speech then? Every movement of lips, facial expressions, looks in the eyes - anything without sound but only with sight can bring you hearing. That's what you do when you're deaf. A silence full of images. Sometimes you may have tinnitus - a persistent beeping sound. What does it look like - is zig-zag(end) from top to bottom from narrow to wide, in white color with black lines in the form of a ragged ribbon. Sharp and soft at the same time. Audible but physically impossible to place. Has no source of sound. What remains is seeing tinnitus instead of hearing.

The word Sustainability is now a general concept, the word: “little subject to wear or decay.” Sustainability is a very well-known expression and is used in many different forms of our daily lives. As humanity we are used to communicating verbally and that sometimes makes it difficult for each other to understand what we really mean, leading to misunderstandings. When it comes to sustainability, do we know what the other means? We do our best but it is often made very difficult for us. Examples, in our daily lives we come into contact with large amounts of packaging waste, we already neatly separate paper and plastic, but waste products still remain part of our daily life. Yet we continue to believe that we are sustainable. When I talk about I mean reuse. As a visual artist I make pieces of recycled glass, transparent and colored glass and other useful materials e.g. wood that can also lead a second life in my work. What you see now is an object made of used glass remnants and a new object has now arisen. To reuse this glass, a 30-year-old grinding machine was used and also recycled water, this water comes from the condenser dryer which I collect in a bucket to use it up to 10 times in the grinding process, this is a small example of multiple sustainable use. Everyone can ensure sustainability in daily life by acting consciously. Sometimes this work process as a visual artist is long and boring, it requires patience, insight and consistent action, and sometimes these three concepts are difficult to implement in our daily lives. It would be very desirable if all of us try to understand and act on the need for sustainability. As a consciously living person, I may have prejudices and generalize. Our society has many laws, rules and good intentions, but because of the amount we see the wood for the trees and we lack the energy to comply with content to consciously participate in a sustainable society. We speak empty words to each other and then walk away. If you read this text of mine, you will not have the opportunity to address me about this. During a personal contact you notice that I have a foreign accent, that I look very focused at you and pay attention to your lips, so that I sometimes do not respond substantively to your question, because I do not understand it correctly.

Sense and spirit would only like to convince you that everything ends in them, they are so vain. Own translation by: Friedrich Nietzsche: Also sprach Zarathustra Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen - Von den Verächtern des Leibes We do not remember memories of our birth. First sightings arose. Something was light and then dark again, first it was quiet and then noisy. To create habits that allow us to imagine unthinkable things, our consciousness uses tricks: that we talk to each other (in many languages), that we can realize that everything is a rhythm of black and white - that is essence of the first step. Therefore, as human beings, we strive to understand ourselves through speech and action. And yet so often we don't understand each other. As humanity we have forgotten what a non-verbal language is. 14,610 beads uses 1 bead for every day of 40 years

Self-consciousness always listens and seeks, compares, subdues, conquers, destroys. Own translation by: Friedrich Nietzsche: Also sprach Zarathustra Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen - Von den Verächtern des Leibes The amount of physical stimuli influences the amount of chemical stimuli - thus overloading the brain. That is a chemical-electrical (physiological) reversal which specifies psychology, psychiatry, philosophy, religion, faith, hope, love, self-destruction and self-healing. Characteristic for humans is that we can think and express our own neurological feelings. That's called communication. It has taken time to put together a computer and come to the conclusion that a barcode is more efficient than a numerical system. Our dominant traits as humans are imagination and speech. Words are only for communication. By repeating our own sounds, we have interpersonal verbal communication. Non-verbal communication is a gift from our primordial parents and their legacy of genetic-evolutionary development. Non-verbal communication arises from observation, experience, repetition and creation of a new conscious perception. 11,119 beads used listen to object as music - this is how blind people can experience it https://jananoniemexposeert.nl/5%20UV+spectrum+0%20Cmaj%20120%204_4.m4a

Not all gold… is a title of the exhibition which aims to compare differences and similarities between Poland and the Netherlands on the basis of proverbs. This is a culture and integration oriented exhibition with Dutch proverbs with gold as the core. This relates to the Dutch Golden Age and contemporary glass art. These and many other issues will be discussed during four different lectures in March 2017. Exhibition will take place in the Klinkenberg rooms in Pulchri Studio in The Hague from February 25 to March 29, 2017. Vernissage is scheduled for February 26 at 3 PM. Glass art objects by Marcin Karwinski from the period from 2004 to 2016 are presented at the exhibition. Exhibited objects will refer visitors to thinking, culture, social society and artistic connections in migration. Exhibited glass sculptures and glass objects are completely realized in cold technology. No oven was used during work process. All presented works are made in glue and hand grinding techniques. The important element for the artist during his creation process is environmental awareness. Works are made from second-hand glass. The aim of this solution is to make people aware that glass is a special material that can also be transformed into art objects without a melting process. Exhibition Not all gold… is a presentation of old artisan glass processing techniques that have been used in recent times. This is the element of place identity preserved from the origin country. The process of living and creating abroad (migration) was and is always clearly visible in Polish art. Exhibition Not all gold… is also assessed by the balloting committee and becomes conclusive for the artist to be able to belong to the group of permanent members of Pulchri studio. Since then Marcin has been a regular artist member of Pulchri Studio.

Veitchii illustrates the course of life from birth to death. The name of this sculpture is derived from the Latin name Paeonia Veitchii - meaning Vetichi's peony. The petals of Veitchi's Peony glued between the layers of the glass illustrate how alive the beginning is but also how completion can be understood. The symbolic meaning of the white peony is, among other things, nobility and imperial power, birth and perfection - these aspects further enhance the meaning of the sculpture as an illustration of life. Thanks to its form and meanings, this sculpture remains a continuation of the Möbius band but in a completely new way.

This sculpture with its dimensions takes up a lot of space, but that is also the intention. The meaning of poppy petals used in the sculpture symbolize pride, decadence and purity. The shape of this sculpture starts from a simple triangle where only one surface has been cut and polished. This solution gives the opportunity to look at the interior of the sculpture. Poppy petals are incorporated between each layer of the glass. Some leaves are still red, others are losing their color. This illustrates constant change, but the entire object remains frozen in "silence" - like glass that is itself a "supercooled liquid".

`365 Reasons´ reflects the feelings and emotions that run through the mind during a burn-out. Every element of this object represents one feeling or emotion out of thousands that flow and run through the mind. 365 Reasons... is an attempt to reach out for and explore the deepest and most hidden feelings.

The Golden Ribbon is built from fifty layers of glass with eighteen carat gold leaf between the layers. Each piece of glass is carefully sawn and treated. The polishing process is done partly mechanically. The major point - part number fifty one - is made of selenite stone. The surface of the sculpture is covered with copper foil. In time it will oxidize, due to the temperature, humidity and light.

The center of this creation is made from a special type of glass, which changes color, from light pink to deep green. Between the layers of glass, again one will find eighteen carat gold leaf. In the horn there are larger pieces of gold leaf that gradually decrease, approaching the center of the circle. By rotating the work, one gets a rich spectacle of changing light, form and color.