Robert Szczerbowski

Robert Szczerbowski (read: Scherbowski) Conceptual artist, painter, writer, born 1959, lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. He started his artistic activity as a writer. However, he consistently moved away from the sphere of language, increasingly incorporating visual elements into his work.
"The artist builds his own fictional dimension, regardless of the medium he uses. His books, objects, paintings and films are subject to the deconstruction of learned ways of perception. They break illusions, often evoking the feeling of absurdity.
He uses the language of "high-tech" and analyzes its impact on the inner space of man, his spiritual needs and imagination. In objects and installations Szczerbowski uses, among others, hermetic computer programming languages, and in paintings refers to fractal geometry. In most works, he strives to obliterate the subjective element, trying to authenticate their fictional and apocryphal reality as much as possible. Some of his books were published anonymously, and many artistic works are simulacra. He creates films that reveal the mechanisms of the hypnotic reality of mainstream cinema. His versatile work is characterized by the trickster's approach. " (D. Misiuna Chaosmos)
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Robert Szczerbowski
Lives in Warsaw, Poland.

Books:
The Book of Life (1979-85), Warsaw 1990;
Æ (1985-90), Warsaw 1991;
Compositions (1977-81), Warsaw 1991;
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Hermetic writings (1996)
Retrospective for the End of Time (a catalogue of fictitious exhibition), Warsaw 1997
Anthology, Kraków 2013

Solo exhibitions:

ID, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw 2020
Immortal, Pola Magnetyczne, Warsaw 2018
Movie show, AT Gallery, Poznań 2007
Recent works, WAA Gallery, Warsaw 2006
Movies (Pop Corn, Kane 3’10, The End, Motion Pictures, Cinema Show, The Lecture), Kino Lab CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 2006
Art as simulacrum, lecture for 4 readers, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 2003
Algorithms, AT Gallery, Poznań 2003
Fractal paintings, Gallery XX1, Warsaw 2003
Steel Life and Venus without qualities, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw 2000
Retrospective for the end of Time, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 1998

Some of group shows:

Metamorphosis, Pola Magnetyczne, Warszawa 2019
What they call my shadow, here on earth is my true substance, CACBM, Paris 2019
Moving images, Awangarda Gallery, BWA Wrocław 2015
Projection Propaganda Machine, Open’er Festival, Gdynia 2013
Sick art, Jerozolima, Warsaw 2012
Koans, MCS Elektrownia, Radom 2009
Movie Show, Rewizje, Warsaw 2007
Cinema Movie, Kino Lab CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 2007
Flesztival Aperitif 2007, SWPS Warsaw 2007
Mobile Academy: On the perfect illusion - Acoustic simulacra, Warsaw 2006
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