Edition of 500
36 190gsm offset cards with four-colour print process to front and back
101 x 152 x 8mm
Dr Krzysztof Fijalkowski’s area of research
is the visual, literary and intellectual culture of the mid-twentieth
century avant-garde, above all the work and legacy of the international
surrealist movement. Collecting has also been an area of long-standing
interest and passion.
‘The Incompletist’ is a text as edition
that presents ideas on collecting and collections. The edition has
been produced from a set of 36 index cards onto which Krzysztof presented
hand written thoughts, ideas, statements and possibilities as a set
of research that has been amassed over time. Specific areas of exploration
include scale, quantity, touch, collecting and time, purpose and happenstance.
Although there is an order to the text, the potential for it to be shuffled
and restructured develops its potential and allows it to be seen in similar
terms to a collection of objects. A blank card is included in the set
further highlighting the endless nature of collecting and giving the
potential for new ideas to be expressed.
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Krzysztof Fijalkowski is a senior lecture in
fine art and research supervisor at Norwich University College of the
Arts. He has written various catalogue texts for exhibitions including ‘Marcel
Duchamp, Surrealist Exhibitions and the Restless Place for Surreal
House, Barbican Gallery 2010, ‘Black
Materialism: Surrealism Faces the Commercial World', for Surreal Things:
Surrealism and Design, V&A Museum, London 2007 and ‘The Encounter
with the Real’, an interview with John Stezaker for his exhibition
at Norwich Gallery in 2006.
The text was commissioned on the occasion of
A Skvader, an exhibition at Norwich Castle Museum as part of the Contemporary
Art Society’s
centenary program, and produced with the support of the Arts Council
England.