Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, April 30th - June 25th, 2011<br />Nordenhale.com: "Galerie Nordenhake is pleased to present an exhibition of recent works by Polish artist Mirosław Bałka entitled ‘Nonetheless’. Comprising a variety of media such as installation, sculpture, drawings and video, Bałka's work navigates a fine line between philosophical commentary and personal disclosure, equivocating between the two realms and obscuring the distinctions that separate them.<br />The exact meaning of the exhibition’s title lies in the very nature of the word ‘nonetheless’. The etymology of the word is simply a string of the words "none the less" that was contracted into one term just around 1930. This adverb implies that, given a certain condition even the least amount of action will still have a result or impact; a sharp definition of a rigorous economy of means.<br />In the main space, Bałka presents, amongst other work, 268 x 142 x 54, 84 x 40 x 22 (2008). The sculpture is composed of two elements. A tall wooden structure serves as the base for an empty glass out of the artist’s physical reach. Bałka uses this elegiac sign of loss to define a minimal, but no less undeniable, distance. The glass opens for an endless chain of interpretations: a trigger whose meaning is activated by the viewer’s own experience. At its base, the wooden structure is accompanied by a wooden step. This small threshold again creates a tangible distance between the observer and the main object."<br />Read on: http://www.nordenhake.com/php/artistsExhibitions.php?id=143
