Handwritings /created with Krzysztof Szalek/
In Western tradition cursive writing is often reduced to its solely useful function. Its aesthetic quality has been for centuries an exclusive interest of Chinese poets and painters, who have reached highest artistry in the art of ink and brush. At the heart of their aesthetic commitment Malgorzata Lempicka-Brian and Krzysztof Szalek show their association with that idea when they set the calligraphy done by artists pivotal to Eastern tradition free from its narrative meaning. Such an act of depriving writing of meaning enables the artists to explore it freely as a domain were it can be read as a gesture of an abstract beauty and as an expression of the author’s inner spirit. Denis Breaul |