Karol Radziszewski, Georg Trakl, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 60x50 cm
Karol Radziszewski, David Pinsent, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 70x50 cm
Karol Radziszewski, Wittgenstein, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 100x80 cm
Karol Radziszewski, Wittgenstein in Krakow, 2023 acrylic on canvas, 70x50 cm
We cordially invite you to the Hotel Warszawa Art Fair. BWA Warszawa presents paintings by Karol Radziszewski from his last solo exhibition at the Traklhaus gallery in Salzburg.
Radziszewski speculates on possible histories of the Austrian poet Georg Trakl. The artist recontextualises his film MS 101 (2012) about an imaginary encounter between the poet as well as the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and his lover David Pinsent. The philosopher came to Krakow as an Austrian soldier in 1914, where he wanted to meet Trakl, who was stationed there as a medical lieutenant. Since the latter died shortly before his arrival at the military hospital, all that remains is to imagine what attraction lay at the root of their encounter. The portraits of this invented ménage-à-trois form an ancestral gallery of homoerotic stories and their potential omission in reading the archives.
Karol Radziszewski, Georg Trakl, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 60x50 cm
Karol Radziszewski, David Pinsent, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 70x50 cm
Karol Radziszewski, Wittgenstein, 2023, acrylic on canvas, 100x80 cm
Karol Radziszewski, Wittgenstein in Krakow, 2023 acrylic on canvas, 70x50 cm
We cordially invite you to the Hotel Warszawa Art Fair. BWA Warszawa presents paintings by Karol Radziszewski from his last solo exhibition at the Traklhaus gallery in Salzburg.
Radziszewski speculates on possible histories of the Austrian poet Georg Trakl. The artist recontextualises his film MS 101 (2012) about an imaginary encounter between the poet as well as the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and his lover David Pinsent. The philosopher came to Krakow as an Austrian soldier in 1914, where he wanted to meet Trakl, who was stationed there as a medical lieutenant. Since the latter died shortly before his arrival at the military hospital, all that remains is to imagine what attraction lay at the root of their encounter. The portraits of this invented ménage-à-trois form an ancestral gallery of homoerotic stories and their potential omission in reading the archives.