C.T. Jasper

C.T. Jasper is a contemporary visual artist, born in 1971 in Gdańsk, (Poland), He lives and works in New York.

Work

C.T. Jasper, ERASED, installation view, Le Guern Gallery, Warsaw 2012

C.T. Jasper employs a wide variety of media in his work. He works primarily with video. His artistic form has elements of science-fiction literature and modern communist utopias. The installation entitled Erased (2012) is consider one of Jasper’s most important works using cinematographic images.[1] The work consists of three videos with sound in an empty gallery space.[2] The artist digitally modified two movies erasing all human presence from the segments of the films Blue Velvet by David Lynch and The Tin Drum by Volker Schlöndorff. A third video was a looped excerpt from Stanley Kramer’s 1995 drama On the Beach, played on a computer screen at the gallery's reception desk.[3] Vacant gallery space merged with film space becoming one undefined place.[4][5]

The work Sunset of the Pharaohs was first prepared for the Frieze Art Fair in New York (2014).[6] The artist digitally erased all the protagonists from the Polish movie Pharaoh, directed by Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1965), which was an adaptation from the 19th Century novel by Bolesław Prus. The video projection was played inside an architectural structure covered with sheep skins, recalling a nomadic lifestyle. The shape was reminiscent of a camera’s bellows.[7][8] Jasper’s technique involved digital removal of the human presence in the Sunset of the Pharaohs.[9]

In 2015, C.T. Jasper, in collaboration with Joanna Malinowska and curator Magdalena Moskalewicz, prepared a project entitled Halka / Haiti: 18 ° 48'05" N 72 ° 23'01W, commissioned by Zacheta - National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland.[10] It was presented at the Polish Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition - Venice Biennale.[11][12][13][14] The key inspiration for artists was Werner Herzog’s movie Fitzcarraldo, which main protagonist plans to build an opera in the middle of Amazonian forest. Jasper’s and Malinowska's project refers to this act in a critical way and deals with an issue of cultural colonization and oppression of European empires.[15][16] Jasper and Malinowska decided to perform the opera Halka by Stanisław Moniuszko,[17] in the town of Cazale, Haiti - a place inhabited by the descendants of the Polish soldiers from Napoleon’s legions.[18][19][20] The opera was first staged in Vilnius in 1848 as a patriotic gesture for Polish nation. The project is exploring the problem of understanding cultural roots by confronting the community identifying with Poland on a symbolic level with a work of art which is very strongly connected to the problem of Polish patriotism and national identity.[21] The film screening followed by a discussion with the artists was also included in the program of Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art in 2015.[22]

Collections

Jasper’s works appear in public and private collections in Poland and abroad:

Selected Exhibitions

External links

References

  1. ↑ Krzysztof Kosciuczuk, Christian Tomaszewski, Frieze Magazine, Issue 152, January–February, 2013.
  2. ↑ Erased was first shown at Le Guern Gallery in Warsaw, Poland in 2012. In 2013 the work was shown at The Standard, in Hollywood, and then in 2015 at the Museum of Art in Łódź at a joint exhibition with Joanna Malinowska entitled Związki rozwiązki/ Relations Disrelations.
  3. ↑ James Voorhies, Something else, something more than exhibition and cinema: the art of C.T.Jasper, Relations / Disrelations. exhibition catalogue, Museum of Art in Lodz, printed in Poland, 2015, p. 48, ISBN 978-83-63820-29-9
  4. ↑ C.T. Jasper's New Film 'Erased' at The Standard, Hollywood, The Standard Culture, October 8, 2013
  5. ↑ Joanna Malinowska, C.T. Jasper. Relations / Disrelations, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Art, Łódź, Poland, ed. Michał Jachuła, Printed in Poland, 2015, ISBN 978-83-63820-29-9.
  6. ↑ Ken Johnson, Martha Schwendener, Strolling an Island of Creativity. Two Critics Sample the Frieze Art Fair, The New York Times, May 9, 2014.
  7. ↑ Benjamin Sutton, Frieze New York Fumbles, Artnet News, May 9, 2014.
  8. ↑ Noelle Bodick, Lurking Limbs, Art You Can Dance With, & Other Trends at Frieze New York, ArtSpace, May 10, 2014.
  9. ↑ C.T. Jasper 'Sunset of the Pharaohs', ed. Le Guern Gallery, text: Christopher Eamon, Printed in Poland, 2014, ISBN 978-83-7960-004-5.
  10. ↑ Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
  11. ↑ Halka/Haiti 18°48'05"N 72°23'01"W. C.T. Jasper & Joanna Malinowska, ed. Magdalena Moskalewicz, graphic design: Project Projects, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Inventory Press, Warsaw, New York, 2015
  12. ↑ Biennial Foundation
  13. ↑ La Biennale di Venezia
  14. ↑ http://culture.pl/en/work/halkahaiti-joanna-malinowska-ct-jasper
  15. ↑ Klara Kemp-Welch, Displacement, migration and colonisation the focus of two Polish presentations at Venice, The Art Newspaper, May 8, 2015
  16. ↑ Polish Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, Artsy.net, May 4, 2015
  17. ↑ Dina Akhmadeeva, Venice Biennale: must-see art from the 'new east' – in pictures, The Guardian, May 14, 2015
  18. ↑ Ginevra Bria, Biennale di Venezia. Il Padiglione della Polonia raccontato da C.T. Jasper e Joanna Malinowska, Artribune, May 5, 2015
  19. ↑ 10 Dinge, die man in Venedig nicht verpassen sollte, Monopol. Magazin für Kunst und Leben, May 9, 2015
  20. ↑ Adrian Searle, Venice Biennale: the world is more than enough, The Guardian, May 11, 2015
  21. ↑ Lilly Wei, Poland's Venice Pavilion Explores Haiti's Polish Connection, ARTNEWS, April 29, 2015
  22. ↑ A story within a story..., September 12 - November 22 2015.
  23. ↑ http://www.zacheta.art.pl/en/article/view/2185/halka-haiti-18-48-05-n-72-23-01-w-c-t-jasper-joanna-malinowska
  24. ↑ Karol Sienkiewicz, Apokalipsa i magia, Dwutygodnik.com, March, 2015
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