Jarosław Kapuściński

Mondrian Variations

Video, stereo sound

1992, rev. 2011 · 9m

Piet Mondrian's art is renowned for its pure abstraction and ultimate simplicity. His unique artistic language has been compared to music, with the artist himself describing his works using musical terms like counterpoint, rhythm, syncopation, and harmony. Drawing inspiration from the simplicity and musical qualities of Mondrian's art, the video transforms, deconstructs, and reconstructs five of his paintings across three movements: Moderato, Lento, and Boogie-Woogie.

Awards

  • 2014

    • First Prize, Fresh Minds Festival, Texas A&M University

  • 1993

    • Audience Prize: Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique, Montréal, Canada

  • 1992

    • Monte Verita Prize and Scholarship of the European Council: VideoArt Festival, Locarno, Switzerland
    • Special Mention, Research Category: UNESCO Film sur l'Art Festival, Paris, France

Commission / Grants

  • Institut National de l'Audiovisuel/Groupe de Recherches Musicales (INA-GRM), Bry-sur-Marne, France; Experimental Studio of the Polish Radio, Warsaw, Poland

Premiere

  • 1992

    • Manifestation Internationale de Vidéo et de la Télévision, Montbéliard, France

Recordings

  • 2011

    • Juicy, DVD produced at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY for Everglade Records

Presentations

  • 1993

    • Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA), Cannes, France
    • Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France
    • Festival International du Film d'Animation, Annecy, France
    • Festival International de Video Cidade de Vigo, Spain
    • WRO International Sound Basis Visual Art Festival, Poland
    • International Short Film Festival, Vila do Conde, Portugal
    • 5me Semaine Internationale de Vidéo Sainte-Gervais Geneve, Switzerland

  • 1994

    • World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, The Netherlands
    • National Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
    • Ô Arts Électroniques!, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada
    • 10e Festival International du Film d'Animation, Marly-le-Roi, France
    • experiMENTAL Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Galerie Obscure, Québec City, Canada
    • Daïmôn, Hull, Canada
    • Espace f:, Matane, Canada
    • Vaste et Vague, Carleton, Canada
    • Haut 3e Impérial, Granby, Canada
    • Espace Virtuel, Chicoutimi, Canada
    • Palomar College of Performing Arts, CA

  • 1995

    • Mondrian and his contemporaries, Musée d'Art Moderne, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
    • III Audio Art Festival, Warsaw-Krakow-Wrocław, Poland
    • 10e Festival Vidéo de Gentilly et du Val-de-Marne, France

  • 1996

    • Elektronische Nacht, Musik der Jahrhunderte, Stuttgart, Germany
    • Cantonal Museum of Art, Lugano, Switzerland

  • 1997

    • Opus 415 No. 3, SF Bay Area New Music Marathon, San Francisco, CA
    • International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Thessaloniki, Greece

  • 1998

    • Sonic Circuits, V Electronic Music Festival, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
    • Video Salon '98, Electro-acoustic Music Center, Univeristy of Wisconsin,Milwaukee, WI
    • Music Department, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

  • 1999

    • Holy Names University, Oakland, CA

  • 2000

    • Invideo: Mostra Internazionale di Video d'arte e Ricerca Milano, Italy
    • Media Art Lab, Centre for Contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland
    • Department of Music, Minnesota State University Moorhead, MN
    • Aural Cinema, Visual Music: Art in the Digital Era, Center of Advanced Research Technology in the Arts and Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

  • 2001

    • Nielsen Academy of Music, Odense, Denmark
    • Trans-Figurazioni: La Pittura nel Cinema, University of Rome 3

  • 2002

    • Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna, Austria
    • CCRMA, Stanford University, CA

  • 2003

    • Survey of Polish Animation, Experimental and Avant-Garde Cinema, MOMA, New York, NY
    • WRO, Media Art Biennale, Wrocław, Poland
    • University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA

  • 2004

    • Nova Polska, Musée d'art contemporain, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
    • Olhares de Outono Digital Arts Festival, Porto, Portugal
    • Portraits of Composers, Mazovian Centre of Culture and Arts, Warsaw, Poland
    • Faye Spanos Hall, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA
    • X International Convention of Cinematographic Studies, University of Rome 3

  • 2005

    • Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (Geidai), Japan

  • 2007

    • Musicacoustica, Beijing, China
    • WRO, International Media Arts Biennale, Wrocław, Poland
    • Synthèse, International Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Bourges, France

  • 2008

    • New Music Festival, University of Louisville, KY
    • International Festival of Animation, Poznan, Poland
    • Time of Music Festival, Viitasaari, Finland

  • 2009

    • The Hidden Decade: Polish Art Video 1985-95, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
    • Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival, University of Richmond, VA
    • The Hidden Decade: Polish Art Video 1985-95, National Museum, Wrocław, Poland
    • SEAMUS Conference, Fort Wayne, IN
    • Seeing Sound Symposium, Bath Spa University, UK
    • Re-new Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
    • Field of Vision, Festival of Animation and New Media, Torun, Poland

  • 2010

    • Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
    • Dongguk University University, Seoul, South Korea
    • Faculty of the Arts, University of Chile
    • LIPM, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    • Arts NOW Series, North Carolina State University, NC
    • Tsukuba Advanced Research Alliance Center (TARA), University of Tsukuba, Japan
    • Campbell Recital Hall, Stanford University, CA

  • 2011

    • San Diego Museum of Art, CA
    • Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
    • Rednote New Music Festival, Illinois State University, IL

  • 2012

    • International Symposium on Visual Music, Nanyang Polytechnic University, Singapore
    • Musica Acoustica Festival, Beijing, China (part of collaborative installation IterEter)
    • School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong

  • 2013

    • Sommets du Cinéma d’Animation, Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal, Canada
    • University of California, Irvine

  • 2014

    • International Festival of Animated Film, Stuttgart
    • FaceArt, Shanghai, China
    • Fresh Minds Festival, Texas A&M University, TX

  • 2015

    • Tokyo University for Arts and Music, Japan
    • Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, Tokyo, Japan
    • Department of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
    • 12 Nights of Electronic Music, Bakehouse Arts Complex, Miami, FL
    • Berkeley Art Festival, CA

  • 2016

    • University of Chicago, Contempo Concert Series
    • Shanghai, Steinway Hall

  • 2017

    • Intermedia Symposium, Tokyo University of Art and Music, Japan