Art stations fundation - by Grażyna Kulczyk

Tony Orrico developed his own physical symmetry practice as point of entry into his creative work. In his termed state of readiness, he is interested in the application of a present body to a surface, object, or course. He is fascinated with how physical impulses manifest into visible forms. His work often displays infinities of reflective and rotational symmetry with attention to what is lost/gained through representations and how imagery in motion may replicate, mutate, or disintegrate. Centralizing on themes of cyclic motion and the generation and regeneration of material, the work draws on the tension between what is fleeting and what is captured.

I am exploring space that is absent of emotion, rational, memory, reaction, projection, judgment or inhibition. I am attempting to navigate through the body’s receptors and shift their relationship to the physical realm, especially gravity. Thisinterest derives from my reconciliations with the beauty and great tension I find coexisting within powers of creativity and temporality, transformation and the mundane.

Without the use of technology, I have been attempting interface with the invisible. Sight is one sense that we use to negotiate and communicate shared space, and it constantly reminds us of what materials are tangible or what constructs are in place. We interpret and represent visible structures through point, line, shape, fill, etc. We can create substance from substance by tapping from the same universal matter and reorganizing it to make concepts visible. I appreciate ways action turns solid and how the image or residue of something experiential may fail to translate. The exchange of images feels much more distant than we realize. It is less of a handshake and more of a note sent by carrier pigeon. The image received has the voyage of the transfer impressed upon it.

Created with this method Penwald Drawings - a series of bilateral drawings (made with both hands simultaneously) - explore the artist's body as a tool of measurement and allow him to be inscribed in the sphere of geometry. Choreography of his gestures stays within the sphere of the outstretched arms of the artist who is immersed in the meditative, repetitive practice following the inner impulses which in this way manifest into a visible, physical form. Line density becomes a direct record of a physical and mental state of the artist engaged in an hours-long process of drawing.

The work Penwald:4:Symmetry Standing that can be later seen at O level of Art Stations gallery will be created especially for the exhibition within 3 days long and open for public action (taking place prior to show opening). Visitors will also have a chance to witness this process again during an hour and a half long performance in which Tony Orrico will "take his wrists on walk" and, in front of our eyes, will create another work from the cycle.