Pawła Althamera i Artura Żmijewskiego obrazy (nie)ostateczne
Paweł Althamer and Artur Żmijewski’s (in)final paintings

Summary/Abstract: The presented text is a free interpretation of 32 montages “created” during the summer stay of Paweł Althamer and Artur Żmijewski in Kalisz at the Art Gallery Jan Tarasin. The author calls the discussed series of collages “(non-)final Images”. The author puts forward a thesis that the “assembly machine” called “AlthamerŻmijewski” successfully, but also perversely, combines work at two tables. One is the “dissection table” (table d’opération). The lexicon and encyclopedia of the modern world are born on this table. This is the “autopsy” table of our world. The second table allows us to see the image-montage at the moment of birth. The “midwife of life” works at this table, allowing us to track the birth moments of thoughts, the contractions of reality, i.e. images as they emerge. The midwife’s table is not a “dissection table”, but a “delivery table” (table d’accouchement). The two machines are friends just like Eros and Thanatos, life and death. However, at both tables, one and the same process takes place – the unraveling and re-stitching of the world.

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