NOWY ZŁOTY CEREMONIAL 4 Nikolay Karabinovych “As far as I’m young I make bad works”

A flag by Nikolay Karabinovych is the fourth one presented within the “CEREMONIAL” programme organised by the informal exhibiting initiative “NOWY ZŁOTY”. So far, three artworks from the series have been exhibited in the form of flags created by Monika Drożyńska, Yulia Krivich, and Alex Urso. The next one is going to be installed on a pole fixed on the OSA – Open Anti-fascist Studio which is a part of Galeria Labirynt. 

Nikolay Karabinovych – “As far as I’m young I make bad works”
NOWY ZŁOTY  – CEREMONIAL 4
2017

Where: Kiosk in front of Galeria Labirynt (ul. Popiełuszki 5)

This flag is a part of the installation “As far as I’m young I make bad works”. The artist follows thethought presented in the work “An Artist who cannot speak English is no artist”. The same phrase in poor English is embroidered on the flag by Croatian conceptualist, Mladen Stilinović. Here, the initial message is brought to the extreme – the Cyrillic inscription states that it is impossible for the author to become full-fledged creator in the system of contemporary art and to be called an artist in the context of his difficulties in expressing himself fully in the English-speaking field, and thus in the international field. At the same time, the work overcomes the impossibility of translating conceptual art language: through appropriation, the initial impetus is addressed to the situation in contemporary art of countries of the “Global South”, as well as to the questions of in-system hierarchy and personal perspectives of each artist.

Works from the “CEREMONIAL” series are presented between the shows-exhibitions. The following, i.e. 14th edition of the “NOWY ZŁOTY”, is going to be opened on July 30th. Details of the exhibition are going to be presented soon.