Wlodek Bzowka

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Wlodzimierz Tadeusz Bzówka (born June 21, 1979 in Ostrowo , Poland ; † December 26, 2007 in Tokyo ) was a Polish-German artist .

Life

In 1987 Wlodek Bzowka moved from Ostrowo, Poland to Düsseldorf , where he spent his childhood and youth. From 2000 to 2005 he studied fine arts at the University of Fine Arts (HfbK) in Hamburg . He was significantly influenced by professors Franz Erhard Walther and Stephan Dillemuth , with whom he also passed his diploma examination. From 2005 to 2007 he completed postgraduate studies at the HfbK. Since 2001 he has also worked successfully as a freelance web and media designer. In 2007 he received a DAAD- Scholarship for an artistic research stay at the National Institute of Informatics at the University of Tokyo. On December 26th, 2007, he was killed in an accident in Tokyo.

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Based on considerations about the relationship between surface and space in painting, Wlodek Bzowka has been concerned with filmic and then digital pictorial spaces since 2004 and tried out various possibilities of representing them in painting. Screenshots from 3D computer games provided the starting material for a series of paintings made in 2005 and 2006 entitled “On the Phenomenology of the Digital Image”. Since 2006 he has been developing a new type of collage technique in which he applied colored cuttings made of polyethylene foam to large-format, white-primed canvases. In the process, seemingly abstract tipping figures were created that allowed a view behind the stage of the digital image: Faulty computer game graphics served as a template , in which the game figure disintegrates into geometric splinters at the moment of defeat.

Works by Wlodek Bzowka can be found in numerous private collections, including a. in Hamburg, Berlin , Düsseldorf and Frankfurt am Main . In 2011 his artistic estate was accepted by the Forum for the Estates of Artists in Hamburg.

Exhibitions

  • 2011 Digital Impulse, Forum for the Estates of Artists eV, Hamburg
  • 2009 Shhhoooh ... white lightnin, Westwerk, Hamburg (with Charlotte Jaus)
  • 2007 White Lightening, Westwerk, Hamburg (with Charlotte Jaus)
  • 2007 Wall painting at Conni Kotte's Interieur, Hamburg
  • 2007 5/4, galerieXprssns, Hamburg (with Max Czycholl, Seok Lee and Mark Matthes)
  • 2007 flatten image - save as copy, Marstall cultural center, Ahrensburg (with Max Czycholl,
  • 2007 Seok Lee and Mark Matthes)
  • 2007 Window to the courtyard, Hamburg (group exhibition)
  • 2007 tease art fair, Cologne, with galerieXprssns
  • 2007 JAM Art Fair, Palma de Mallorca, with galerieXprssns
  • 2006 Karl Schneider rediscovered, 14 dioptres, Hamburg (with Marcel Stammen and
  • 2006 Mark Block-Wodaege)
  • 2006 Worringerplatz glass house, Düsseldorf
  • 2005 Area and space in a square, diploma exhibition, HfbK Hamburg
  • 2005 Exhibition at the end of a studio grant in the Kunstverein ev AK Harburg
  • 2005 Spare Worlds, annual exhibition of the BBK Hamburg, Kunsthaus Hamburg
  • 2004 Epiphany, galerieXprssns, Hamburg
  • 2003 Locomotion_2, digital video screenings on public screens, Hamburg

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personal data
SURNAME Bzowka, Wlodek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bzówka, Wlodzimierz Tadeusz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-German artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostrowo , Poland
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 2007
Place of death Tokyo