The films of Zbigniew Rybczyński

The State of Image. Die Medienpioniere Zbigniew Rybczyński und
Gábor Bódy | Vortrag


Sat, 05/26/2012


With Zbigniew Rybczyński (*1949), the film program introduces the
most important media pioneer from Poland to have developed within
the tradition of the first European avant-garde.
Rybczyński may well be described as constructivist painter and
sculptor, draftsman, designer and even engineer of the new
image-time-space which he created. His films and video work make
spatial and temporal dimensions experienceable, which the
familiar media world does not offer.


“Zbigniew Rybczyński not only knows all techniques of artistic
image construction, but he draws on all of them. I know of no
present-day artist so technically ingenious and so artistically
creative as Rybczyński: more to the point, he is so artistically
creative because he disposes over inimitable technical virtuosity
and bravura.” (Peter Weibel)


The film program relates directly to the exhibition “The State of
Image” in which – as shown in the example of two outstanding
inventors, filmmakers and media artists Zbigniew Rybczyński and
Gábor Bódy – a new evaluation of the artistic and technical
innovation in image research spanning the period between the
1960s and 1980s was undertaken.