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.

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

A Long, Long Way between California & Casablanca

Directed by Jonas Kolecki
Edited by Gobrdan Rudas
Produced by Caroline Roos
Production Studio SophyLab

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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.

Obscrua (Yellow), 2025
Oil, Pastell, Wax on MDF Plate 2,00 x 5,00 m

The work exhibited here in Afgang demonstrates the effect of time through a painterly language: layering. Indeed, Jonas approaches the canvas like a filmmaker, constructing images that evolve through time - moments unfolding, dissolving, then transforming. Across the painting we see a constant negotiation between levity and heaviness, indicating the evolution of the subjects he seeks to depict. Drawing inspiration from cinema, fossils, and the history of fresco painting, this artwork contains images that emerge and recede. Jonas is particularly interested in how mass imagery, from historical archives to private photographs, shape our understanding of the world. Some areas of his paintings contain printed elements, while others remain fluid and gestural, creating a dialogue between mechanical reproduction and the hand’s fluidity.

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.

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

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.