| dc.description.abstract | The text entitled On the Rhombus in My Art discusses one of the stages of Andrzej Bębenek’s creative journey; from
the moment of selecting the simple form of a geometric sign - RHOMBUS, to introducing it in a number of artistic
acts. In a series of sculpture-objects created since 1993, the artist has broadened his experience acquired on
paper and canvas to include the problem of the presence of the rhombus in space. At that time, he created a
collection of sculpture-statuettes complemented with gouaches and small white pieces of carton pinned to the walls
and scattered on the floor, presented at an exhibition at the ZPAP Gallery in Katowice in 1994. That idea of
manipulation with multiplied form was developed by the happening at the vernissage of an exhibition at the Space
Gallery in Krakow in 1994. Its participants could dip their hands in a rhombus medium and influence its shape
freely. The series of the so-called Red Albums, which the artist started in 1995, had a slightly different form of
creative collecting. The whole was divided into topical series (each red binder was a separate series, with its own
title: My Rhombus - My House, Rhombus in Art, Rhombi in Sight, Rhombus Mania, Around Rhombus, I and Rhombus,
Rhombusworks). They constituted a peculiar gallery whose objective was to show differences and similarities between
the mathematical scheme of the rhombus, and the free forms of creative expression, in any artistic technique or
discipline.
Parallel to that, the artist worked on attempts at placing the rhombus in public space. In May 1992, he carried out
a spontaneous operation Rhombus in the Main Market Square in Krakow, which consisted in introducing a contour of
that sign made of white paper into the rhythm of the flagstones. The artist traced also the magical force of the
chosen motif in the landscape (the operation in winter of 1994). The description of the above-mentioned operations
is accompanied by a broader philosophical reflection on the nature of this figure. | en_EN |
