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Thursday, January 23 \u2013<\/strong> Tuesday, April 19, 2025<\/strong>
Peninsula<\/a><\/strong>
13 Monroe Street, New York, NY 10002
Private tours will be scheduled with Jan Baracz, Izabela Gola visual arts curator at the Polish Cultural Institute New York, and Peninsula\u2019s director, Eric Fallen.<\/em>

Thursday, February 20 at 6:00 PM<\/strong>
Music for Alligators <\/em>artist performance followed by a conversation 
49 Monroe St, New York, NY 10002<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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twilight mechanics, <\/em>the current solo exhibition of Jan Baracz<\/a><\/strong> at Peninsula, is now open until April 19, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expanding on Jan Baracz’s concurrent solo show, twilight mechanics<\/em>, a special program took place on February 20, featuring a performance Music for Alligators<\/em> by the artist and his collaborators; Justine Vaccine and Isaac Gerard, followed by a conversation with the artist, the writer, Carlo McCormick, the exhibition curator, Izabela Gola, gallery director, Eric Fallen, performers, and audience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jan Baracz, SHADOWS OF THE REFURBISHED ANCESTORS<\/em>, 2025. Window Installation. Dimensions vary. Three reproductions of paintings of the artist\u2019s paternal ancestors, his great grandfather and grand uncles, purchased from the Walmart website along with resin garden toads and car refresher trees from the same source. The paintings from left to right are: Erazm Bar\u0105cz by Jacek Malczewski (Cracow National Gallery) 1909. Jakub Bar\u0105cz by Leon Wycz\u00f3\u0142kowski (Warsaw National Gallery) 1879. Erazm Bar\u0105cz by Leon Wycz\u00f3\u0142kowski (Cracow National Gallery) 1896.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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twilight mechanics<\/em> is a window onto the unfathomable, a channel through the unconscious on the landfill of the Anthropocene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Walk into a space to witness familiar narratives collapse. In his current body of work, Baracz examines the impact of the crawling civilizational collapse on the individual psyche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using materials sourced from the fringes of industrial production, Baracz crafts works that redirect our gaze inward, onto what isn’t readily apparent, the submerged regions of the self. His probing, associative poetic reframes modes of perception, and manifests ways in which our notion of reality, impacted by the manifold crises, is disfigured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jan Baracz, AND THE FLAMES HAVE TURNED TO STONE SO THAT ANIMALS COULD FEND FOR THEMSELVES<\/em>, 2025. Dimensions vary. Elk antlers, volcanic lava rocks.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Jan Baracz, MOTHERBOARD<\/em>, 2024. 21 x 31 x 2 inches. Plywood, paint.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Jan Baracz, SINTHOMES<\/em> (installation view), 2024. Vintage Queen Anne furniture legs, steel circular saw blades.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Jan Baracz, DREAMCATCHER<\/em> # 7, 2024. 31 x 31 x 3\/4 inches. Edition of 6. Acrylic tubing, nylon fishnet stockings.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Jan Baracz, ART FOR AIRPORTS<\/em>, 2024. 18 x 17 x 9 inches. Aluminum frame, glass, crumpled paper encased in resin, anti-pigeon spikes, paint.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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ABOUT THE ARTIST<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Jan Baracz<\/strong> is a Polish born artist living in New York since 1981. He\u2019s known for his installation works, sculptures and photography. Baracz has shown internationally at the Contemporary Art Center, Warsaw, Poland, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland and artMbassy Gallery, in Berlin, Germany. Baracz\u2019s video Eyebeads by Words Held Fast premiered in New York in 2006. In 2008, he produced the cinematic installation LIVE VIDEO at Art in General in NYC, and in 2012 he exhibited his sculptural project How to Float Above the Psychic Stampede at the Stoyanov Gallery in NYC. Baracz\u2019s installation On the Nature of Dust Deposits, Minerva Owl Flight Patterns and Other Commonly Overlooked Events had been on view at Hudson Valley MOCA in Peekskill, NY from 2017 to 2019. In 2022 Konnotation Press published his photography book, Eyebeads by Words Held Fast. His last solo exhibition Mutiny\u2019s Darling (2023) at Peninsula Gallery in NYC was reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail. He has received grants and awards from Art Matters, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the Kosciuszko Foundation among others. Baracz\u2019s photography has appeared in Paris Review, American Letters & Commentary, and numerous other magazines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lead image: Jan Baracz, DARK DIAL<\/em>, 2024. 35 x 20 inches x 22 inches. Oil drum lid, surfboard fin, assorted car tires.
Portrait of Jan Baracz, photo by Robert La Force<\/p>\n\n\n\n

twilight mechanics<\/em> is curated by the Polish Cultural Institute New York Visual Arts Curator Izabela Gola <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In his current body of work, Baracz examines the impact of the crawling civilizational collapse on the individual psyche.\nUsing materials sourced from the fringes of industrial production, Baracz crafts works that redirect our gaze inward, onto what isn't readily apparent, the submerged regions of the self. His probing, associative poetic reframes modes of perception, and manifests ways in which our notion of reality, impacted by the manifold crises, is disfigured.\nABOUT THE ARTIST\nJan Baracz is a Polish born artist living in New York since 1981. He\u2019s known for his installation works, sculptures and photography. Baracz has shown internationally at the Contemporary Art Center, Warsaw, Poland, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland and artMbassy Gallery, in Berlin, Germany. Baracz\u2019s video Eyebeads by Words Held Fast premiered in New York in 2006. In 2008, he produced the cinematic installation LIVE VIDEO at Art in General in NYC, and in 2012 he exhibited his sculptural project How to Float Above the Psychic Stampede at the Stoyanov Gallery in NYC. Baracz\u2019s installation On the Nature of Dust Deposits, Minerva Owl Flight Patterns and Other Commonly Overlooked Events had been on view at Hudson Valley MOCA in Peekskill, NY from 2017 to 2019. In 2022 Konnotation Press published his photography book, Eyebeads by Words Held Fast. His last solo exhibition Mutiny\u2019s Darling (2023) at Peninsula Gallery in NYC was reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail. He has received grants and awards from Art Matters, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Asian Cultural Council, Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the Kosciuszko Foundation among others. Baracz\u2019s photography has appeared in Paris Review, American Letters & Commentary, and numerous other magazines.\nLead image: Jan Baracz, DARK DIAL, 2024. 35 x 20 inches x 22 inches. 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