Piktogram | Paris Internationale

Piktogram

Piktogram is a non-profit organization founded in 2005 to publish Piktogram Talking Pictures Magazine and to organize thematic, research-based exhibitions in specially selected venues—such as hotel rooms, the Financial Centre building, or a cinema theater.
From 2011 to 2014, Piktogram ran a non-commercial art space. In 2012, the magazine ceased publication.
In 2011, Piktogram initiated Warsaw Gallery Weekend, in 2015, founded Not Fair, and in 2024, co-founded Constellations.
Since 2015, Piktogram has operated as a gallery and has been representing artists.
That same year, Piktogram relocated from a post-industrial building in Warsaw’s Kamionek district, redesigned by Projekt Praga, to a downtown location. There, it maintained two venues within the same building at 9 Kredytowa Street. In 2022, Piktogram moved again—this time to a ground-floor space with street-facing vitrines at 4 Górskiego Street, right in the center of Warsaw.
Piktogram represents both Polish and international artists, including those of Polish origin living abroad, spanning multiple generations and working across a wide range of media.

ul. Górskiego 4
00-033, Warsaw
Poland

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Piktogram will present a solo exhibition of works by Isaac Lythgoe at the upcoming edition of Paris Internationale.

For Paris Internationale, Isaac Lythgoe proposes a thematic booth in which the spectacle of the bullfight stands in for the largesse of industry and the operation of financial markets. Two large sculptures occupy the floor of the booth. One of them is a reworking of Wall Street’s famous Bull sculpture. While these sculptures play with a sense of externality, they also represent the intangible and unpredictable operations and spectacle of the street. A new series of intimate oil paintings directs us to the personal and domestic ramifications of industries movements. We might consider the figures here as spectators in a world of post-truths and burgeoning wealth disparity. Nonetheless, they play their parts in the larger game.

Isaac Lythgoe
I don’t remember anything you said to me last night, 2022
epoxy, 3d prints, plywood, telephones, acrylic, fillers, automotive finishes, stainless steel, lacquer walnut, 110 × 155 × 50 cm

Isaac Lythgoe b. 1989 in Guernsey (UK), lives and works in Paris (FR)

Working predominantly in sculpture his practise operates as an exercise of narrative nonfiction, a facts told as story approach. He takes on the role of both investigator and narrator, a sort of film noir detective. Research focussed in conflated power structures, current affairs, science fiction and theory, identifies information and events with the potential for future, cultural relevance. These ideas translate into complex, allegorical works, often augmenting contrasting ideas, references and materials. The artist’s practise is world building, and works interrelate and self-reference with the mandate of emphasising these core themes. Characters borrowed or invented, intertwine with modern myths and each other, they reflect the intangibility of self in contemporary society and seek out modes with which we can relate to the vastness of modern industry, its motivations, corruptions and future potentials. Love, romance, death and desire all compete for positions in this hierarchical structure.

Isaac Lythgoe
Why can’t we remember the future?, 2022
plywood, carbon fibre, cow stomach leather, Pla, epoxy, epoxy clay, fillers, automotive paint, acrylic paint, lacquer, stainless steel, oiled walnut, hardware, 210 × 70 × 80 cm

Isaac Lythgoe
It takes 244 days to forget your name, 2023
oiled amaranth, plywood, epoxy, 3d prints, copper, carbon fibre, fibre glass, pigments, acrylic, fillers, automotive finishes, lacquer, stainless steel, 78 × 78 × 38 cm