Honza Zamojski
Honza Zamojski is a conceptual artist whose work explores what the artist has called “the nonsensical nuances of reality.” He works across mediums, dismantling complex issues to focus on their minute details, often with an ironic or sarcastic tone. After founding and running Morava, a publishing house which produced 14 artist books between 2010-13, he began a 14 volume lecture series How It's Made, which he presented internationally at institutions such as Centre Pompidou, MoMA Library, Printed Matter. More like stand-up comedy or performance art than an academic lecture, the artist humorously outlined the difficulties of independent publishing by making quick line sketches and chaotic graphs on the slides of an analog projector and incorporating elements from the film “Rosemary’s Baby” into the presentation's dry facts. He has incorporated his entertaining “how to” style into books as well, such as How to make a monument? (2012), a flipbook–drawing animation of historical and fictional Parisian public monuments accompanied by poetic titles, memoirs, and "stolen" prose that attempt to answer the complicated question of, "how to make a monument?" For him, the work is “a multi-level dialogue residing between tradition and representation; Ms. Joke and Mr. Seriousness; and freestyle hypertext and …
Honza Zamojski is a conceptual artist whose work explores what the artist has called “the nonsensical nuances of reality.” He works across mediums, dismantling complex issues to focus on their minute details, often with an ironic or sarcastic tone. After founding and running Morava, a publishing house which produced 14 artist books between 2010-13, he began a 14 volume lecture series How It's Made, which he presented internationally at institutions such as Centre Pompidou, MoMA Library, Printed Matter. More like stand-up comedy or performance art than an academic lecture, the artist humorously outlined the difficulties of independent publishing by making quick line sketches and chaotic graphs on the slides of an analog projector and incorporating elements from the film “Rosemary’s Baby” into the presentation's dry facts. He has incorporated his entertaining “how to” style into books as well, such as How to make a monument? (2012), a flipbook–drawing animation of historical and fictional Parisian public monuments accompanied by poetic titles, memoirs, and "stolen" prose that attempt to answer the complicated question of, "how to make a monument?" For him, the work is “a multi-level dialogue residing between tradition and representation; Ms. Joke and Mr. Seriousness; and freestyle hypertext and mathematical consequence.” Uninterested in so-called objective content or neutral form, self-portraits are a running theme for Zamojski who bases his works on his personal observations, histories, and phobias.
He has had solo exhibitions at Arsenal Gallery in Bialystock, LETO Gallery in Warsaw, Cleopatra's in New York, and Kim? in Riga. His work has been included in group exhibitions at institutions such as Poland’s Center of Contemporary Art in Torun and Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw.
