• Imaginarium Tomasza Partyki

    Jak sobie obserwuję środowiska twórcze, zwłaszcza w Warszawie, mogę dostrzec pewne powtarzające się motywy narracyjne i domykający się obieg prezentowanych w galeriach tematów i nazwisk. Prace Tomka Partyki, o którym będzie tu trochę mowa, mam wrażenie są nieco inne. Pulsują jakimś rodzajem newralgiczności, złości, zdziwienia, obserwacji. Są abstrakcyjnymi kolażami, zlepkami wycinków postaci z gazet, starych książek, są budowane z pozoru nieistotnych szczegółów, przebrzmiałych haseł, którym poprzez układ wycinków, znaków artysta nadaje nowy kontekst. Jest tam przewrotna anegdota, ważniejsze przesłanie czy szybka kolażowa notatka z rzeczywistości na płótnach.

    Partykę poznałam nieprzypadkowym przypadkiem w nieodżałowanym, rozwalonym już już pod patodeveloping, Perunie na Grochowie. Jakoś chwilę po wybuchu wojny na pełną skalę w Ukrainie. Robiliśmy Pawłowi Żukowskiemu pożegnanie przed wylotem na stypendium Tom of Finland w Kalifornii. Siedzieliśmy ciasno upakowani na kanapie, piliśmy piwo i zapewnialiśmy Pawła, że mu się ten wyjazd uda. Obok siedział facet z dresie i okularach i narzekał na mgłę covidową i niemoc twórczą.

     

    W Perunie. W pracowni Pawła Żukowskiego. Na zdjęciu ja, Tomasz Partyka i Agata Całkowska. Warszawa Grochów marzec 2022

    Toteż, kiedy zaistniała idea zaproszenia do pracowni, jeszcze wtedy na 11 listopada, to skorzystałam. Granica Bródna i Pragi, dawny fort, koszary carskich kontyngentów, obecnie budynek przejęty przez kościelny Caritas, wtedy udostępniający pracownie artystom.

    Weszłam tam i byłam absolutnie zachwycona. Przypomniały mi się jakieś dziadka strychy. Stare grube mury, drewniane podłogi, monumentalne ilości kurzu na wszystkim, zakamarki, zapomniane przez pająki zmumifikowane muchy w pajęczynach, zagadkowe instalacje z ptasich piór, pochowane prace z dawnych lat, mały zapaćkany stolik i dwa twarde krzesła. Wszystko wydało mi się wspaniałe. Mogłam sobie grzebać w rzeczach, a Partyka odkrywał chyba swoje historie na nowo, takie miałam wrażenie. Uwielbiam zaglądać do cudzych zakamarków, kocham, kiedy ktoś mi na to pozwala i jeszcze sam dołącza.

    W tym imaginarium, swoistym był cały bestiariusz polski, zgromadzenie traum, kryzysów ontologicznych, historycznych, klimatycznych, robione techniką mieszaną, kolażową obrazy mało formatowe i wielkoformatowe z grami słownymi, konotacjami, komentarzami. To było wszystko takie oschłe, niewdzięczące się, chropowate, niewygodne. Lubię i tego typu techniki tworzenia, kompilacyjno kolażowe i lubię niewygodne przekazy, zwłaszcza, kiedy szybko mogę je zdekodować używając dostępnych mi narzędzi. Wtedy lubię sobie powiedzieć – aha! a więc w ten sposób.

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    Tomasz Partyka “Escape from Europe” 2016

     

    Jednak tym, co wzbudziło mój zachwyt największy były Partyki rzeźby z …kurzu. Jedna była chyba czymś na kształt figury świętej noszonej na takich postumentach podczas procesji Bożego Ciała. Kurz jako tworzywo nie jest rzecz jasną oczywistym tworzywem w praktykach artystycznych. Ja kojarzę tylko jedną pracę z wykorzystaniem entropii kurzu spod łóżka Duchampa jaką sfotografował Man Ray. Zwykły kurz spod łóżka tworzy na tej fotografii nowe światy. Niesłusznie kurz jest traktowany jak intruz w polu ludzkiego życia. Cali jesteśmy zeskrobinami martwych tkanek, żyjemy w tym na codzień, nieustannie przeradzamy się w kurzawę, w materię niewidoczną a jednocześnie namacalną. To jedyne co z nas jest i co z nas będzie w jakiejś nieodgadnionej formie, dlatego kurz uważam za budulec bardzo szlachetny tylko po prostu wyparty przez współczesny system, który przewidział tu spory obszar do pomnażania kapitału na produkcji środków czystości oraz do pomnażania w ludziach poczucia winy, kiedy tego kurzu nie uprzątną.

    “Saturn ziewający na podeście”(after Goya)

    Apropos tego kurzu wpada mi w ręce fragment z “Kuriera Polskiego” z 1956 r kiedy Tadeusz Kubiak w tekście “Poeta powienien być komentatorem” napisał: “Od kilku tygodni toczy się żarliwa dyskusja na temat tak zwanej nowoczesności w sztuce. Proponowano już domy z powietrza, pomniki z kurzu, twierdzono, że nie będziemy na obraz patrzeć, ale w obrazie mieszkać. Z przerażeniem spojrzałem na mój przestarzały warsztat – stół, krzesło, pióro i kałamarz. Na wszelki wypadek staram się częściej słuchać ludzi na przystankach tramwajowych, a rzadziej alchemików wyławiających kamień prawdy z tajemniczych głębin małej czarnej.”
    Jak bardzo jednak mieli rację ci alchemicy wróżący z fusów, jak się poecie wydawało. Chociaż stoły, krzeszła i warsztaty pracy nadal trzymają się mocno.

    Spędziliśmy jeszcze z Partyką w tej pracowni trochę czasu potem. Zwiększała się ilość opowieści. Był czas, kiedy jego umysłem rządziły potworce Francesco Goyi. Siedzieliśmy, piliśmy piwo, a Tomek lepił swoje potworki z modeliny. Zainspirowałam się tym, kupiłam sobie modelinę i ulepiłam w biurze penisa, waginę i wirusa. Postawiłam pod ekranem komputera i przylepiłam wiadomość dla serwisu sprzątającego „Proszę nie przestawiać moich rzeczy”, bo ciągle podczas sprzątania penisowi odpadał napletek albo wirus gubił swoje czułki. Ostatecznie stoją tam do dziś, zakurzone i nienaruszone.

    Tomasz Partyka w swojej nowej pracowni przed pracą “Hug me”

    No a potem caritasowo – kapitalistyczne porządki dosięgnęły artystę, na skutek czego musiał swoje imaginarium wynieść i szukać mu nowego miejsca. W tym czasie, kiedy nie wiedział jak będzie ani nie miał gdzie malować i konstruować – rzeźbił sobie we własnym ciele.  Zapewne – regularne wprawianie konstrukcji mięśni w ruch nie pozwala osunąć się w poczucie beznadziei. Nie wiem, ja nie próbowałam. Tak tylko się domyślam. Po ostatnich szlifach na bicepsach nadszedł czas nagrody i Partyka znalazł nową pracownię w dawnych zakładach nie wiem czego na Ratuszowej.

    Może to nie koszary pamiętające cara, ale też unikatowy obecnie relikt PRL-u. Nic tam się już nie produkuje, ale okazałe budynki stoją i jest nawet portiernia i panowie, którzy wszystkich wpuszczają bo ciągle ktoś tam się krząta i jest to m.in Tomek Partyka i jego goście. Kiedy pokona się jazdę rachityczną windą, korytarz z linoleum wchodzi się do sporego pomieszczania z fabrycznymi świetlówkami, które to pomieszczenie Partyka zaanektował już swoimi działaniami. Jest teraz inaczej, ale jnie wydaje mi się, że gorzej. Nie ma jeszcze much, ale jest dużo światła i linoleum jak w prlowskich podstawówkach.

    Partyka bierze na warsztat nośne kulturowe hasła i rzeźbi z nich i swoje lęki i swoje nadzieje dając jednocześnie innym widzom przestrzeń do tego, żeby się w tym umościli ze swoimi emocjami.
    Komiksowość praktyki twórczej Tomka Partyki to jest odwołanie do mojego entuzjazmu dla tego typu segmentacji rzeczywistości jeszcze z dzieciństwa. Chociaż jego twórczość jest chropowata, jak wspomniałam na początku, to ja lubię ten typ konwersji myśli na materię, jaką uprawia Partyka. Ja bym sobie jedną z prac powiesiła na ścianie i codziennie szukała tam czegoś, co wcześniej pominęłam w widzeniu. Tak postrzegam sensowność wszystkich zdarzeń pozornie oczywistych i sens sztuki także.

     

     

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    From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour. Of my mother I have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil; to content myself with a spare diet, and to fly all such excess as is incidental to great wealth. Of my great-grandfather, both to frequent public schools and auditories, and to get me good and able teachers at home; and that I ought not to think much, if upon such occasions, I were at excessive charges.

    Let nothing be done rashly, and at random, but all things according to the most exact and perfect rules of art.

    Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged. If no man shall think himself wronged, then is there no more any such thing as wrong. That which makes not man himself the worse, cannot make his life the worse, neither can it hurt him either inwardly or outwardly. It was expedient in nature that it should be so, and therefore necessary. Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being? And what is it, that is more pleasing and more familiar to the nature of the universe? How couldst thou thyself use thy ordinary hot baths, should not the wood that heateth them first be changed? How couldst thou receive any nourishment from those things that thou hast eaten, if they should not be changed? Can anything else almost (that is useful and profitable) be brought to pass without change? How then dost not thou perceive, that for thee also, by death, to come to change, is a thing of the very same nature, and as necessary for the nature of the universe?

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    From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour. Of my mother I have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil; to content myself with a spare diet, and to fly all such excess as is incidental to great wealth. Of my great-grandfather, both to frequent public schools and auditories, and to get me good and able teachers at home; and that I ought not to think much, if upon such occasions, I were at excessive charges.

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  • Vivamus vestibulum nulla nec ante

    From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour. Of my mother I have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil; to content myself with a spare diet, and to fly all such excess as is incidental to great wealth. Of my great-grandfather, both to frequent public schools and auditories, and to get me good and able teachers at home; and that I ought not to think much, if upon such occasions, I were at excessive charges.

    Let nothing be done rashly, and at random, but all things according to the most exact and perfect rules of art.

    Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged. If no man shall think himself wronged, then is there no more any such thing as wrong. That which makes not man himself the worse, cannot make his life the worse, neither can it hurt him either inwardly or outwardly. It was expedient in nature that it should be so, and therefore necessary. Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being? And what is it, that is more pleasing and more familiar to the nature of the universe? How couldst thou thyself use thy ordinary hot baths, should not the wood that heateth them first be changed? How couldst thou receive any nourishment from those things that thou hast eaten, if they should not be changed? Can anything else almost (that is useful and profitable) be brought to pass without change? How then dost not thou perceive, that for thee also, by death, to come to change, is a thing of the very same nature, and as necessary for the nature of the universe?

    Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

    When you arise in the morning think of what a which today arm you against the present. I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil. Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

    Behold and observe, what is the state of their rational part; and those that the world doth account wise, see what things they fly and are afraid of; and what things they hunt after.

    What those things are in themselves, which by the greatest part are esteemed good, thou mayest gather even from this. For if a man shall hear things mentioned as good, which are really good indeed, such as are prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, after so much heard and conceived, he cannot endure to hear of any more, for the word good is properly spoken of them. But as for those which by the vulgar are esteemed good, if he shall hear them mentioned as good, he doth hearken for more. He is well contented to hear, that what is spoken by the comedian, is but familiarly and popularly spoken, so that even the vulgar apprehend the difference. For why is it else, that this offends not and needs not to be excused, when virtues are styled good: but that which is spoken in commendation of wealth, pleasure, or honour, we entertain it only as merrily and pleasantly spoken? Proceed therefore, and inquire further, whether it may not be that those things also which being mentioned upon the stage were merrily, and with great applause of the multitude, scoffed at with this jest, that they that possessed them had not in all the world of their own. Whether, I say, those ought not also in very deed to be much respected, and esteemed of, as the only things that are truly good.

  • Praesent placerat risus quis eros

    From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour. Of my mother I have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil; to content myself with a spare diet, and to fly all such excess as is incidental to great wealth. Of my great-grandfather, both to frequent public schools and auditories, and to get me good and able teachers at home; and that I ought not to think much, if upon such occasions, I were at excessive charges.

    Let nothing be done rashly, and at random, but all things according to the most exact and perfect rules of art.

    Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged. If no man shall think himself wronged, then is there no more any such thing as wrong. That which makes not man himself the worse, cannot make his life the worse, neither can it hurt him either inwardly or outwardly. It was expedient in nature that it should be so, and therefore necessary. Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being? And what is it, that is more pleasing and more familiar to the nature of the universe? How couldst thou thyself use thy ordinary hot baths, should not the wood that heateth them first be changed? How couldst thou receive any nourishment from those things that thou hast eaten, if they should not be changed? Can anything else almost (that is useful and profitable) be brought to pass without change? How then dost not thou perceive, that for thee also, by death, to come to change, is a thing of the very same nature, and as necessary for the nature of the universe?

    Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

    When you arise in the morning think of what a which today arm you against the present. I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others. Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil. Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

    Behold and observe, what is the state of their rational part; and those that the world doth account wise, see what things they fly and are afraid of; and what things they hunt after.

    What those things are in themselves, which by the greatest part are esteemed good, thou mayest gather even from this. For if a man shall hear things mentioned as good, which are really good indeed, such as are prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, after so much heard and conceived, he cannot endure to hear of any more, for the word good is properly spoken of them. But as for those which by the vulgar are esteemed good, if he shall hear them mentioned as good, he doth hearken for more. He is well contented to hear, that what is spoken by the comedian, is but familiarly and popularly spoken, so that even the vulgar apprehend the difference. For why is it else, that this offends not and needs not to be excused, when virtues are styled good: but that which is spoken in commendation of wealth, pleasure, or honour, we entertain it only as merrily and pleasantly spoken? Proceed therefore, and inquire further, whether it may not be that those things also which being mentioned upon the stage were merrily, and with great applause of the multitude, scoffed at with this jest, that they that possessed them had not in all the world of their own. Whether, I say, those ought not also in very deed to be much respected, and esteemed of, as the only things that are truly good.

  • Vestibulum commodo felis quis tortor

    From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour. Of my mother I have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil; to content myself with a spare diet, and to fly all such excess as is incidental to great wealth. Of my great-grandfather, both to frequent public schools and auditories, and to get me good and able teachers at home; and that I ought not to think much, if upon such occasions, I were at excessive charges.

    Let nothing be done rashly, and at random, but all things according to the most exact and perfect rules of art.

    Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged. If no man shall think himself wronged, then is there no more any such thing as wrong. That which makes not man himself the worse, cannot make his life the worse, neither can it hurt him either inwardly or outwardly. It was expedient in nature that it should be so, and therefore necessary. Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being? And what is it, that is more pleasing and more familiar to the nature of the universe? How couldst thou thyself use thy ordinary hot baths, should not the wood that heateth them first be changed? How couldst thou receive any nourishment from those things that thou hast eaten, if they should not be changed? Can anything else almost (that is useful and profitable) be brought to pass without change? How then dost not thou perceive, that for thee also, by death, to come to change, is a thing of the very same nature, and as necessary for the nature of the universe?

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  • Praesent placerat risus quis eros

    From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour. Of my mother I have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil; to content myself with a spare diet, and to fly all such excess as is incidental to great wealth. Of my great-grandfather, both to frequent public schools and auditories, and to get me good and able teachers at home; and that I ought not to think much, if upon such occasions, I were at excessive charges.

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    From the fame and memory of him that begot me I have learned both shamefastness and manlike behaviour. Of my mother I have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil; to content myself with a spare diet, and to fly all such excess as is incidental to great wealth. Of my great-grandfather, both to frequent public schools and auditories, and to get me good and able teachers at home; and that I ought not to think much, if upon such occasions, I were at excessive charges.

    Let nothing be done rashly, and at random, but all things according to the most exact and perfect rules of art.

    Let opinion be taken away, and no man will think himself wronged. If no man shall think himself wronged, then is there no more any such thing as wrong.

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    You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart. If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …

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