Bursa – po awangardzie? Powrót do lektury Malarstwa obłąkanego

Abstract

Andrzej Bursa’s poem Painting Gone Mad (Malarstwo obłąkanego) takes over and sets in motion a machinery of images that are gradually disembodied. The recorded image of the world is superimposed here with the world of delusions and mental “deviations”, deforming all that is subject to poetic intervention and – in the case of other poems – perceived perhaps in terms of existential paradoxes. The psychotic construction of the subject allows the activation of games of imagination, which, in the field of creative possibilities, activate “surreal” images. The perspective of post-human transformations of years ago, technicization, and indeed fantastic, “surrealistic” textualization of borderline states of consciousness (madness, insanity) of a person from a triumphantly and dramatically modernized world is intriguing. The sketch includes interpretive remarks on the poems of Tytus Czyżewski and the text Without the Help of the Physicians by Jan Brzękowski. These works are juxtaposed with Painting Gone Mad due to the common perspective of psychiatric confrontation with the world and “mechanization” and, in the case of the latter poet, the organic-technical experience of the lyrical character.