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LUNCHTIME - art in public space project / 2005

LUNCHTIME - art project in a public space / Warsaw / X-XI 2005.

All paintings by Beata Konarska
Project by Beata Konarska, Paweł Konarski

Enlarged paintings were traveling together with working MPO trucks  (Municipial Services and Waste Management Company Ltd) for one month. Once every week all the trucks were meeting in an arranged place for half an hour. The meeting places included: Teatralny Square, The Palace of Culture plaza, the Vistula wilderness and the local landfill. 

FINISSAGE – the culmination of the ‘Lunchtime’ action was held in the former kitchens of closed Europejski Hotel.
‘Lunchtime’ aimed to change the viewer’s perspective, break down the stereotypes of different environments, alter the functions ascribed to places, objects, situations. We wanted to introduce art to locations not associated with it in the collective consciousness, teleport painting to ‘virgin territories’: rubbish dumps, chutes, routes of rubbish disposal trucks. 

The fly was the accidental protagonist, a commentator travelling the urban space. In the context of the project it took on human characteristics: it displayed intelligence, commented on the reality or simply observed the world. There were: the artist-fly, 
the killer-fly, the average Joe-fly, the housewife-fly, the anorexic fly etc. The exhibition resem- bled a comic-book scenario, 
based on the flies’ routes, their encounters in different places in Warsaw, their pre-planned meetings or simply daily trips 
on (regularly operating) rubbish disposal vans.


           fly #1. an artist | acrylic on canvas | 200x120cm (2x100x120cm) | 2005


           fly #7. I'm fed up with that, darling | acrylic on canvas | 200x120cm (2x100x120cm) | 2005


            fly #10. so fresh&so clean | acrylic on canvas | 200x120cm (2x100x120cm) | 2005


           fly #3. almost fly almost butterfly | acrylic on canvas | 200x120cm (2x100x120cm) | 2005


           fly #11. rich and famous, stupid and anorectic bitch | acrylic on canvas | 200x120cm (2x100x120cm) | 2005


           fly #4. roy in his room. late 1940's | acrylic on canvas | 200x120cm (2x100x120cm) | 2005


           fly #12. I have sth for you in the kitchen, dear | acrylic on canvas | 200x120cm (2x100x120cm) | 2005


           fly #14. the fly, if you don't mind | acrylic on canvas | 200x120cm (2x100x120cm) | 2005


           fly #2. shit happens | acrylic on canvas | 200x120cm (2x100x120cm) | 2005


           fly #13. a fly without future | acrylic on canvas | 200x120cm (2x100x120cm) | 2005


           fly #6. dirty Harry | acrylic on canvas | 200x120cm (2x100x120cm) | 2005


           fly #5. I have never been to LA | acrylic on canvas | 200x120cm (2x100x120cm) | 2005


           fly #9. not now. I'm busy | acrylic on canvas | 200x120cm (2x100x120cm) | 2005


           fly #8. the lady with an ermine | acrylic on canvas | 200x120cm (2x100x120cm) | 2005
FINISSAGE – the exhibition of original paintings and documantation of the ‘Lunchtime’ action was held in the former kitchens of closed Europejski Hotel / Warsaw
LUNCHTIME - art in public space project / 2005
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