Artur Malewski
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
28.11.2008 - 16.01.2009
Assume that hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is a cryptonym for a fear of knowing. This is not the causeless fear. The biblical theme of the Tree of Knowledge shows it as a forbidden fruit whose consumption is becoming the reason of downfall. Even if a downfall into the knowing describes human condition, it is still forbidden or at least strictly limited. Knowing always threaten releasing or sending a beast. The title cryptonym points at its stigma which is at the same time - humans stigma. Artur Malewski follows the desire of knowing without any fear - the desire that light up the greatest human minds. The exhibition discovers a mystery, manifesting that every knowing must be self-knowing and a released beast is...
curators: Kamil Kuskowski, Jarosław Lubiak


