Elvin Flamingo

1. Incorrect Diagnosis, 30 × 21 cm;
2. Clone 813, 30 × 21 cm;
3. Virus Repository, 30 × 21 cm;
4. Probe 91, 30 × 21 cm;
5. Mosquito 2, 30 × 21 cm;
6. Cloned Universe, 30 × 21 cm;
7. Virus 463, 30 × 21 cm;
8. Perfect Genotype, 30 × 21 cm;
9. Virus 79, 30 × 21 cm;
10. The beginning of history, 21 × 15 cm;
11. Chimneys in the brain, 21 × 30 cm;
12. Amplified viruses and bacteria, 30 × 21 cm;
13. Genotype 419, 21 × 30 cm;
14. Virus mutant, 30 × 21 cm;
15. Virus 18, 21 × 30 cm;
16. Winning Combination, 30 × 21 cm;
17. Extended Phenotype, 30 × 21 cm;
18. Cloning Process 128, 26 × 19 cm;
19. Bacterial Centre, 25 × 21 cm; 
20. The Beginning of History 2, 30 × 21 cm;
21. A Failed Attempt, 30 × 21 cm;
22. Bacterial Warehouse, 30 × 21 cm;
23. Mosquito 1, 30 × 21 cm;
24. Probe 1302, 30 × 21 cm;
25. Bacterial Conversations, 30 × 21 cm;
26. Stabilizer, 30 × 21 cm;
27. Robot 1, 21 × 26 cm;
28. Robot 2, 21 × 30 cm

The Hospital Diary series documents the artist’s emotions, struggles and pursuit of his unconscious (at the time) return to art. From that moment, over the next year and a half, the drawings multiplied and flourished in untamed biological forms and abstract realms, extending from the scale of a single cell to the entire universe. The titles provide us with some clues: bacteria, viruses, mutants, phenotypes, clones, genotypes, as does the accompanying powerful machinery: the stabilizer, repository, warehouse, a probe, a robot.

Although the artist did not recognize these twenty-eight hospital drawings as works of art for a long time, they have the same obsessive air and systemic, multiplied details as the insect cultures inhabiting glass incubators.

• Object type:
  28 drawings (pigment ink, Canson paper)
• Year:
  2017
• Dimensions:
  the exact dimensions below
• inv. no.:
  MNG/NOMUS/17/D/-1-28
• Własność:
  Deposit of the City of Gdańsk, part of the Gdańsk Collection of Contemporary Art