Wincenty Dunikowski-Duniko
Characteristic for Wincenty Dunikowski-Duniko's work is his interdisciplinary activity, that may be devided into two areas: the first connected with the problem of the developement of form, the other connected with the idea of art. His cycles of works are interrelated in time and in the methods of their realisation; they are never closed.
Point of No Return is a term that describes all the moments in life which are irrefutable; those are in private life - anniversaries, in research - the invention of electricity, in politics - a change of systems, in art - works like "Black Square on White Ground" by Malewicz or Duchamp's Ready Made. But Point of No Return is at the same time an abstract term - nobody has yet seen a "point of no return". Therefore the series are titled with a different color than in reality. A "still life" seems to be its interpretation in terms of painting - its a new reality, not the same. Points of No Return is a game between perception and reality, truth and deception, between reservations and freedom. (W. Dunikowski-Duniko, 1992-1998)
Wincenty Dunikowski-Duniko (1947)
Graduation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, 1974
He works and lives in Bonn, Berlin and Cracow
In 1976 he created the term Moment Art.
Numerous exhibitions since 1972. The artist's works have been shown i.e. at exhibitions in the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco 77, Wanderausstellung Smithsonian Institution: Centenial Arts Centre, Surrey, Canada 77, El Paso Museum of Art., El Paso 77, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois 78, Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura 80, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, 82, (solo exhibition), Stoffwechsel, accompaining exhibition to the Documenta 7 in Kassel, 82, Kunstlandschaft Bundesrepublik, 85, Der Baum, Kunstverein Heidelberg 85, Recontres/Museum Mulhouse, 85, Museum Bochum 86, Schloß Charlottenburg Berlin, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen 86/87. International Drawing Triennale, Wroclaw 92, Wokól polskiej rzezby lat 70-tych i 80-tych XX wieku, Centrum Rzezby Polskiej in Oronsko, Piec wieków grafiki, National Museum Warszawa. Retrospective exhibitions: Galeria Polnocna Zamek Ksiazat Pomorskich, Szczecin, 93, Bunkier Sztuki in Kraków/Cracow 1995, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture Oronsko/Poland 2002, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg/Germany, 2001
SELECTED LITERATURE:
Edward Lucie-Smith, ART IN THE SEVENTIES, OXFORD 1980, NEW YORK, 1981,
BOOK, p. 39 (illustrated Dunikowski-Duniko), (Photography: Douglas Huebler, Wincenty Dunikowski-Duniko, Richard Long, Udo Nils, Arnulf Reiner)
Jan Chwalczyk, KONTRAPUNKT, Galeria Sztuki Informacji Kreatywnej, Katalog BWA
Wroclaw, 1973, Dunikowski-Duniko (illustrated)
Trisha Garlock WORLD PRINT COMPETITION SAN FRANCISCO, Exhibition catalogue: Museum of Modern Art San Francisco , 1977; Wanderausstellung Smithsonian Institution: Centenial Arts Centre, Surrey, Canada 77, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso 77, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois 78, Dunikowski-Duniko (illustrated)
6.INTERNATIONALE BRITISH BIENNALE, Bradford, 1979 , p. 277 Dunikowski-Duniko (illustrated)
Zofia Golubiew, ATTITUDES, METHODS, TENDENCES, DUNIKO, Kunstpalast, Krakau; 1978, Dunikowski-Duniko (illustrated)
Peter Spielmann, Georg Meistermann ua., DAS ANDERE LAND, Exhibition catalogue: Deplana Kunsthalle, Berlin 1986, Große Orangerie, Schloß Charlottenburg, Berlin; Museum Bochum, Bochum; Pauluskirche, Frankfurt am Main; Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken; Kultur unterm Turm, Stuttgart; Lothringer Strasse, München; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Orangerie Herrenhausen, Hannover; Musees de l’Etat, Luxemburg , 1986/1987(Katalog); Dunikowski-Duniko (illustrated)
Konrad Scheurmann, DUNIKO, FLASH ART POL. ED., 1/1990, pp. 59-65, (illustrated)
Lech Karwowski, DUNIKOWSKI-DUNIKO, FLASH ART POL. ED., 4/1994, pp.78-79:
(illustrated)
Ryszard Stanisławski, Konrad Scheurmann,, Jan St. Wojciechowski, WINCENTY DUNIKOWSKI-DUNIKO, RETROSPEKTYWA – Moją najlepszą/ My best, Exhibition catalogue, Galeria Sztuki Współczesnej BUNKIER SZTUKI, KRAKOW 1995
Lars Brandt, Hans Gercke, Ryszard Stanisławski, Jan St. Wojciechowski,
WINCENTY DUNIKOWSKI-DUNIKO, RETROSPEKTIVE, Point of no return,
Exhibition catalogue KUNSTVEREIN HEIDELBERG, HEIDELBERG, 2001
Since 1976: MOMENT ART
Its main idea is to select the phenomena which – for their triviality and ordinariness – resisted art so far.
The dramaturgy of such common incidents as fogging up a pane of glass with breath (“Duniko’s Breath” 1976 – Transparent photo) or splitting up a drop of water with a finger (“Splitting up” 1976 – Transparent photo film) – is a trial of another, deeper visualisation of the assimilation of time passing.
A series of these works was executed on transparent plates (Transparent photo – positiv film)
