RUDOLF POLANSZKY
Daidalon
Opening: April 29th, 7pm
Duration: April 30th – June 25th, 2026
Daidalon refers to the Greek myth of the inventor and artist Daedalus, father of Icarus, and Icarus’s tragic decision to fly using his father’s artificial wings. He flew too close to the sun, his wings. held together with wax, failed, and he plummeted to his death. (Rudolf Polanszky)
Since the mid. 1970s, Rudolf Polanszky has been developing a multifaceted, cross-media body of work that encompasses conceptual film, video, and photographic works as well as drawings, paintings, sculptural objects, and assemblages. A defining feature of his work is the deliberate yet methodical incorporation of chance. Among the central materials of his work are Plexiglas, metal, mirror film, synthetic resin, wire, and foam. In the process of artistic transformation, these materials are systematically stripped of their original functionality and purpose and placed in new contexts. Polansky’s working method is based on a non-linear, process-oriented approach that he himself describes as “ad-hoc synthesis”: a process of spontaneously yet structurally assembling heterogeneous materials and found forms. Through superimposition, layering, overlapping, interlocking, and folding, complex structures emerge that elude a clear formal or semantic meaning and instead become legible within the tension between materiality, chance, and deliberate arrangement. The exhibition brings together sculptures, assemblages, and paintings from recent years, as well as video works dating back to the 1970s.
