Relics for a Possible Future
Inspired by the expressiveness of the paintings and frescoes of historical Italian masters and fascinated by the role they played in the world view of the people of that time, I began the series of works Relicts for a Possible Future. Particularly the effect of weathered frescoes as a viewer and the realization that everything that surrounds us is subject to a process of decay and thus only remains as a fragment for future generations became the basis for the work. In search of a similarly functioning dogma in our time, collages were created from collected contemporary newspaper and online media images, which were then transferred on wooden panels and canvases.
"Through the Shades of Broken Windows, Every Story Once Rang True"
Playground, 2022 Inkjet on billboard paper, 500 x 950 cm
Landscape of Tropical Pleasure, 2023
Aceton Transfer on MDF, Oil-Pastell, Oil
120,00 cm x 90,00 cm
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Bed painting (2018) Bedsheet
120 cm x 200 cm
'When we sleep, we are dancing in our thoughts."- Visualization ofthree nights spent at the Michelangelo Reload residency in Pietrasanta. By putting colored calk on my body during bedtime, I aim to visualize the traces and movement during sleep.
First, there was the light (2018)
Performance, automatic cleaning machine, room plant
Untitled (A Conversation) (2022)
Alket Halili & Jonas Kolecki: Untitled (a Conversation) Sculpture with 2 signatures, 25 cm x 25cm x 30 cm, 2022 Concept: Jonas Kolecki
Three-dimensional realization: Alket Halili
What does it mean to have the idea for a work? Who is the author when the realization is done by another person? What happens when artistic practices merge? Can the outsourcing of a work be- come the work itself? The work Untitled (a Conversation) addres- ses the question of authorship of artistic works that are realized by a second person as a commissioned work. It questions the dyna- mics of labor, authorship, and artistic creation. The resulting work is based on an archival photograph of a „chicken and an egg“ as an example of a clichéd approach to beginning and originality. In short, who came first, the chicken or the egg?... A series of photo- graphs document the process of creating the sculpture and the exchanges during the collaboration. In a conversation between the two authors, which will take place live via video link on November 26 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m., personal views on the division of labor and the possibilities and problems of collaboration will be revealed. It will become clear that although the resulting sculpture has its own autonomy and individual artistic value, it is ultimately only an index for further conversation.
Jonas Kolecki (statement): „The work Untitled (a Conversation) is a tribute to the sequence of daydreams, sketches,conversations, meetings with new people, difficulties, negotiations, coincidences, encouraging words from friends and trust in and during creative processes.“
Alket Halili (statement): „It`s very simple. If you have the idea for a work and I execute it, we should both be the authors of the piece.“
Untitled (Stones), 2020
„[...] Between all the remains, however, there were also pain-
ted stones that fascinated me. [...] I did not find any signature or name that could allow an assignment. Nevertheless the stones were marked and claimed by someone. This small event raised the essential question for me: “Who does the earth actually belong to?” The work is on show in the exhibition Willi the cat, in dialo- gue with Little Tejungacanyon Line by Richard Loing, 1984
A Long, Long Way between California & Casablanca
Directed by Jonas Kolecki
Edited by Gobrdan Rudas
Produced by Caroline Roos
Production Studio SophyLab
Information on request
Cleaning the Pool (2016)
Zenith vision of an ephemeral drawing. Digital 4k video, 23:45 minutes
In Cleaning the Pool (2016), I am removing snow from an abandoned swimming pool in the northern Italian Alps. The lines created are only visible from the zenith perspective, where the edges of the pool frame the scenario. [...] the ephemeral painting is driven by movement, a process of creation through removal. My thoughts on the work: For me, the work is about place, locality and perspective. The lines created are reminiscent of a gestural painting,
which was only visible from the zenith perspective. The edges of the swimming pool become the frame of an ephemeral painting. The body movement, a performative act, becomes important to the work, the center of attention, by making the process of creating something by removing visible.
Through the Shades of Broken Windows
Relics for a Possible Future
Inspired by the expressiveness of the paintings and frescoes of historical Italian masters and fascinated by the role they played in the world view of the people of that time, I began the series of works Relicts for a Possible Future. Particularly the effect of weathered frescoes as a viewer and the realization that everything that surrounds us is subject to a process of decay and thus only remains as a fragment for future generations became the basis for the work. In search of a similarly functioning dogma in our time, collages were created from collected contemporary newspaper and online media images, which were then transferred on wooden panels and canvases.
"Through the Shades of Broken Windows, Every Story Once Rang True"
Playground, 2022 Inkjet on billboard paper, 500 x 950 cm
Landscape of Tropical Pleasure, 2023
Aceton Transfer on MDF, Oil-Pastell, Oil
120,00 cm x 90,00 cm
inquire
Bed painting (2018) Bedsheet
120 cm x 200 cm
'When we sleep, we are dancing in our thoughts."- Visualization ofthree nights spent at the Michelangelo Reload residency in Pietrasanta. By putting colored calk on my body during bedtime, I aim to visualize the traces and movement during sleep.
First, there was the light (2018)
Performance, automatic cleaning machine, room plant
Untitled (A Conversation) (2022)
Alket Halili & Jonas Kolecki: Untitled (a Conversation) Sculpture with 2 signatures, 25 cm x 25cm x 30 cm, 2022 Concept: Jonas Kolecki
Three-dimensional realization: Alket Halili
What does it mean to have the idea for a work? Who is the author when the realization is done by another person? What happens when artistic practices merge? Can the outsourcing of a work be- come the work itself? The work Untitled (a Conversation) addres- ses the question of authorship of artistic works that are realized by a second person as a commissioned work. It questions the dyna- mics of labor, authorship, and artistic creation. The resulting work is based on an archival photograph of a „chicken and an egg“ as an example of a clichéd approach to beginning and originality. In short, who came first, the chicken or the egg?... A series of photo- graphs document the process of creating the sculpture and the exchanges during the collaboration. In a conversation between the two authors, which will take place live via video link on November 26 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m., personal views on the division of labor and the possibilities and problems of collaboration will be revealed. It will become clear that although the resulting sculpture has its own autonomy and individual artistic value, it is ultimately only an index for further conversation.
Jonas Kolecki (statement): „The work Untitled (a Conversation) is a tribute to the sequence of daydreams, sketches,conversations, meetings with new people, difficulties, negotiations, coincidences, encouraging words from friends and trust in and during creative processes.“
Alket Halili (statement): „It`s very simple. If you have the idea for a work and I execute it, we should both be the authors of the piece.“
Untitled (Stones), 2020
„[...] Between all the remains, however, there were also pain-
ted stones that fascinated me. [...] I did not find any signature or name that could allow an assignment. Nevertheless the stones were marked and claimed by someone. This small event raised the essential question for me: “Who does the earth actually belong to?” The work is on show in the exhibition Willi the cat, in dialo- gue with Little Tejungacanyon Line by Richard Loing, 1984
A Long, Long Way between California & Casablanca
Directed by Jonas Kolecki
Edited by Gobrdan Rudas
Produced by Caroline Roos
Production Studio SophyLab
Information on request
Cleaning the Pool (2016)
Zenith vision of an ephemeral drawing. Digital 4k video, 23:45 minutes
In Cleaning the Pool (2016), I am removing snow from an abandoned swimming pool in the northern Italian Alps. The lines created are only visible from the zenith perspective, where the edges of the pool frame the scenario. [...] the ephemeral painting is driven by movement, a process of creation through removal. My thoughts on the work: For me, the work is about place, locality and perspective. The lines created are reminiscent of a gestural painting,
which was only visible from the zenith perspective. The edges of the swimming pool become the frame of an ephemeral painting. The body movement, a performative act, becomes important to the work, the center of attention, by making the process of creating something by removing visible.
Through the Shades of Broken Windows