Eco-social Sculptures

Gosia Koscielak, Artist Statement

​ECO-Social, ECO-Digital, Post-Organic, Digital Organic, Virtual Unism, Minimalism, Constructivism

The idea of the eco - social sculpture integrates my concepts of spatial stimulations and sculpture taken to infinity with broader aspects of scientific and artistic activity. It represents a new concept of an eco - digital environment and a new relationship between the viewer and the nature - a new digital organic / post-organic. Eco - social sculptures connect natural and social sciences with art and aesthetics. Eco - social sculptures are philosophical-artistic-socio-cultural-scientific actions.

My work proposes a free flow between the digital and the organic. I use many different traditional and digital media - including virtual reality, video projections, laser drawing projections, and digital photography - as vehicles to express infinity in sculpture/space and to make visible the flow of energy in space. By placing digital media in the actual environment, I create a new experience of sculpture as an infinite energy form, of time and space integrating as a harmonious whole new habitat. I use the medium of light and projection to create new connections, between actual landscape (the organic) and the digital media.

Studies of the modernist Polish art theorists Władysław Strzemiński (Unism) and Henryk Stażewski (Polish Constructivism), along with the theories of Joseph Beuys and Paul K. Feyrabend have influenced my concept of the Virtual Unism and eco-social sculptures since 1994.

In my eco-social sculptures I represent the constant flow of digital and organic elements in space into infinity; I reveal their constant fluid transformation, from digital to organic, and from organic to the digital reconstruction of the micro and macro cosmos.

Creation lies in successive reduction aiming towards the unity of a system that in its most extreme form leads to the objective unity of world and art expanding to the 3D and the total unification of an art work with its environment: human - sculpture - space - infinity. Following Beuys' theory, eco-social sculptures are expanding the concept of art: art = man = creativity = science. Eco-social sculptures function in a much broader scope. Art is becoming a part of the research that can lead to the new developmental model integrating environmental, economic, socio-cultural and ethical sustainability. Eco-social sculptures that use digital media rejuvenate and stimulate the resources of natural organisms (ecosystems), the single organism (the human being), and the social organism (humanity). Eco-social sculptures are open for new scientific theories which can be integrated with new ideas, habits, and parts of culture, bringing positive aspects of nature that encourage us to remember nature's power of change and to reconsider the laws of Nature: "...when approached in different ways, nature gives differing answers..." as Paul K. Feyrabend stated.

Eco-social Unism 1, digital print on paper, 2005 - 2020

Eco-social Unism 2, digital print on paper, 2005 - 2020

Eco-social Unism 3, digital print on paper, 2005 - 2020

Eco –social Sculptures, New Organic

Open House, Chicago Art District Exhibitions, Chicago 2005. This exhibition presented  projections, paintings, photography and laser drawings in glass.  The idea of eco – social sculptures integrates my concepts of spatial stimulations –sculpture to infinity and broader aspects of scientific and artistic activities. It represents a new concept of eco – digital environment and new relations between viewers and nature – new digital organic / post-organic explorations. Eco – social sculptures connect natural sciences, social sciences with art and aesthetics. Eco – social sculptures are a philosophical-artistic-socio-cultural-scientific actions. They represent phenomena and laws of Nature: “…when approached in different ways, nature gives differing answers…” This concept is based on my studies of Wladyslaw Strzeminski, J.Beuys and the theories of Paul K. Feyrabend.

Eco –social Sculptures, New Organic, installation, projection, salt, LED letters.

Open House, Chicago Art District Exhibitions, Chicago 2005. This exhibition presented  projections, paintings, photography and laser drawings in glass.