Robert Irwin RED DRAWING WHITE DRAWING BLACK DRAWING

Friday afternoon in Chelsea. Spring like day. At Barbara Gladstone an artist performs Beethoveen. Young woman with short brown hair stays inside the piano and is moving around with the piano from room to room. Cascades of sound and then an empty clicks, when she hits keys without strings.
On the opposite side of the street from Gagosian (closed for installation) a new construction side. It used to be a car wash and a garage. Smell of the gas in the warm days. Shining puddles of oil on the pavement concrete.
I stopped at PaceWildstein gallery to see Robert Irwin new work. White fluorescent lights on the panels from floor to ceiling have life on its own. The light pattern is magical. There is also a mirror in which you can see the pattern from different angle.The second installation of red lights its more darker and more mysterious. I am fascinated by Irwin work. I remember his exhibition in DIA, maybe 10 years ago,- an amazing maze built from lights.
Then I walked 10th Avenue down to 14 St. The sun was going down. The sky was composition of constantly moving different shadows of dark blue.

one cold winter day in NYC

Happy, joyful and prosperous New Year!!!

I currently work on series of urban landscapes. I prepared three videos of Manhattan at sunrise and transformed two of the digitally ( you can see the results on youtube) preparing for an exhibition and to screen them simultaneosly on three walls.

To view samples of my work please visit www.youtube.com/gpospiech

Creating art: making films, taking pictures and writing is essential part of my life, a kind of necessity of nature, part of a very natural process like breathing or being thirsty or hungry a vital part of everyday life necessary for me to exist, to live in the world. It is also about the need to express myself, the need to find right form for my feelings and emotions, to connect to the world and to other people. At this point in my artistic life my goal is to create with my camera images of our internal landscapes. I share Christopher Isherwood’s attitude- “ I am the camera with its shutter wide open.”

Hazy, hot and humid …one day of the heat wave in New York City. Jimmy works as a bike messenger. The heat, the City, his solitude and his craziness…
HEAT is my love poem to New York…It was my first summer in the New York City. The summer with heat wave over 100F for days, weeks... I was totally alone living in the basement in Brooklyn with no air condition. TV news was scary. People were dying from the heat. I was scared. I had no friends, no money and just split with my partner. I did not know what to do with my life…what was going to happen to me… For months I did not talk to anybody because simply I did not know anybody and I did not know the language. It was one of the most difficult moments in my life. The heat, the unknown City, the unknown country, solitude, fear….and the dreams .. I was not sure…I was dreaming the City or the City was dreaming me…
I come from documentary tradition. So there we were for hours, for days on the streets in the heat of the summer 2003 catching with the camera life of the city- people, traffic, landscapes.

“Wasteland” is 10 minutes long, (projected on 3 screens or walls at the same time) series of images of real world (industrial part of Greenpoint and Williamsburg) converted to an eerie dream and discovery journey through the inner landscape. A woman (an actress Catherine Rogers) while walking through unknown territory of her dream is looking at the empty streets, walls, peeling paint, empty windows, rusty doors and discovers things and emotions she has never suspected to exist in her, looking into her past. She is accompanied by a child (Isabel Sagun) and a man ( Argentinian dancer Dardo). Her journey has strength of an archetype so everybody can relate to it because it contains the most important and deepest elements of everybody’s life.
In the Creamary exhibit I shown only “Pieces of Wasteland” titled “Walls And Windows” and “The Dream Begun Already” as a triptych.
An email I got after screening at Chashama: " I haven't been to an event
like that in a long time and found it deeply refreshing, as if someone
were speaking to me from a place not usually accessible in the world,
but only in interior experiences of poems, or complex and mysterious
occurrences . .. Beautiful and strange. I was taken with the combination
of image, sound and text. ."
I hope the my audience will share feelings and emotions.

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