Jan Manski and his Onania

Elisabeth-Louise Vigée- Lebrun, Self portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782

ONANIA
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1.refined, elegant pink	1.all in pink
2.mystery	2.repeatability
3.circumstantial evidence of the inner world	3.appearance of conventions
4.friction between private and public needs	4.coldness and cynicism
5.balance	5. Tadeusz Kanotor`s poetic
6.pleasant surprise	6.wig
7.sensuality	7.dazzling with ugliness
8.engagement	8.pornography
9.Francis Bacon`s painting

Mixture of an apricot custard with turpentine taste, intense like Chanels` NO 5.

The ambiguity of his work affects the viewer imagination and provokes the effort to “look through” his works.

 

Manski`s pink cave is filled with dummies, wigs, furs, and tool cabinets, which brings loneliness or other serious feelings. Main advantage of his art is its concentration and determination to find the right form for invented ideas describing contemporary world. Therefore the greatest part of Manski`s artistic statement is his self portrait, depicted the artist who doesn`t tell us his preaches with all do's and don'ts, which we all should be aware. He rather tells us more about his researchers and thoughts than about the ideas invented for building up the art market with its funny values.

Free flow of ideas is contained in the form supplied with obsessive fetish, which can be powerful only when it is authentic. 

 

I liked Manskis` pink, which might be very tricky and easily turn into chip and trashy pinki pink. His version is more refined. In my opinion can be associated with Coco Channel or femininity represented by Elisabeth-Louise Vigée- Lebrun in Self portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782. Therefore I think that Jan Manski should patent his pink because of its undeniable picturesque abilities.

Shortcuts

Pink dental chair, hypochondriac fears combined with pleasure comes from maintaining a fetish, failure popping up form latex porn movies, cybernetic Hasior*, fly trapped in amber.

Monika Waraxa 5/05/2012, London 

Jan Manski

Onania

20/04-05/05/2012 Rochelle School, London

http://www.rochelleschool.org/

*Władysław Hasior (1928-1999), Polish artist

(...) I use materials that mean something, whispering. Each item has its own sense, and its complexity gives an aphorism.(...)

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Damien Hirst – Progressive Comment

Damien Hirst

Current retrospective show of Damien Hirst works, presented at Tate Modern Gallery in London, inspired me to create some progressive comments on the new tendencies in art. Please join us either you like or hate Damien Hirst`s art and attitude. 

Labeling Damian Hirst is open for anyone willing to participate and co-create it.

You can join us:

First option

1. Downloading pdf from Deconstruction Project

2. Printing some stickers.

3. Find the right place, stick it.

4. Make documentation and send it directly to: Labeling Damien Hirst

Second option

1.We will send you set of stickers ready to go if you give us your home address. You could live it here: info@deconstructionproject.co.uk. There is no charge for that.

3. Find the right place, stick it.

4. Make documentation and send it directly to: Labeling Damien Hirst

First records:

Kasia Sobucka

Kuba Budzyński

Monika Waraxa

LUCIAN FREUD

Lucian Freud and Kate Moss in bed, photography by David Dawson, 2010

I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be

1941

Peter Watson, oil on canvas

Van Gogh`s boy pictured next to the wall decorated with the naked man with a bird (unidentified species) sited on his right thigh.

1945

Woman with a daffodil, oil on board on canvas

A very sad woman, wearing sea-green cardigan or jumper, just frown on somebody or something, I am not sure. Hidden behind a board, like in Renaissance. 

1950–1 

Boy smoking oil on canvas

The swashbuckler blasting the frame.

1952

Francis Bacon, drawing, pencil

Unzipped trousers, hands joined together but hidden, a short sleeve shirt, lines with sharp edges.

1980–1

Naked girl with egg, oil on canvas

Reminiscence of Ai no corrida, 1976. The egg well boiled with green colour inside

1982–4

Painter`s mother, oil on canvas

Not naked, hang in the corridor, randomly visited, gentleness, respect, not violated the privacy of the sitter.

 1986-7

Painter and model, oil on canvas

The painter felt into a pensive mood and squeezed a tube of chromoxyd green. Contact of the naked body with an old couch creates a nasty impressions (saprophyte)

1992

Nude with leg up, oil on canvas

A bigger interest for the pussy than the face. The human being like a rag.

1993

Evening in the studio oil on canvas

The women stifled with too big breast. 

1996 

Bella, oil on canvas

Naked feet, naked palms, black roll-neck.

2011

Portrait of the hound, oil on canvas, 2011

Melted animality, thick texture. 

An interest to humanity disappeared along with passing time and lust for the physicality. 

Monika Waraxa, 23/03/12, London

Portraits, Lucian Freud

9/02- 27/05/2012  

National Portrait Gallery

St Martin's Place
London WC2H 0HE