Correspondences
Updates and private notes between you and me 🙌🏻📝🤲🏻
fitness is handling one’s own logistics
your response to the archive sale, the little gems of my past that I've kept and now release back into the world, was totally overwhelming. I'm deeply grateful to all of you.
The link stays private to the newsletter until early October, after which I’ll share it more widely. Some pieces are still available, see below for a quick overview:
last week I had an opening in Milan 👀 all new works, new formats, same insistent soul insisting intentionality, numinosity, and jumping pictures with siblings:
99.5% of you couldn’t come, so I built a simple site where you can explore the works and understand a bit more about them.
fun fact: all my pieces for the exhibition fit in a 5 kg box and 1/2 a suitcase. That’s 9 paintings, 4 sculptures (3 at 2,5 x 2,5 m each), a video work and an audio work, folded up and then popped back out for 1200 m2 in the heart of Milan. Optimising for mobility is my favorite form of 🤸🏻
The exhibition, FIELD WORK, arose out of deeply delightful correspondences with my friend and fellow geomancer Tillmann Lauterbach. It was his initiative that brought us together and procured us the incredible space; then diligence gave way to serendipity and the rest just coalesced into place. I’m incredibly grateful for his trust in me, and for our producer Veronica Albio who helped develop FIELD WORK across all of its arcs.
saved for the next correspondence: a 4 x 10 meter commission for BMW Foundation delivered in a 2.5 kg package. What is this obsession with compression? Some things are best left said rather than written ⤵️🔊
x
Winston
twenty-six paintings that span my entire career 👀
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first, logistics:
1. the archive sale is password protected, but this link (or clicking the gif above) takes you straight there. However since I did build this all myself 😅 it may still ask for a...
pw: archive2026
2. some paintings are in Berlin, some are in Boston. I'll ship from Berlin immediately but I'll only be in Boston to personally pack and ship in Q1 2027. If you're local to either, pickup at any time is something we can arrange.
3. The prices are very low (55-85% off) relative to my current inventory. Note that almost all the paintings have condition issues, and I've done my best to photograph every artwork so you can see exactly what you're getting.
now, story:
I'm making a big move and consoldiating things across two oceans. Paintings are strangely like violins (two things I know very well)—if they aren't engaged with, they disintegrate. I'm not going to let things sit in stacks when they could be enjoyed, simple as that.
I've never done this before, and because I mainly work on commission basis now I live a much "lighter" life with no work from the past five years ever going to storage. but maybe it's an every-twenty-years thing on the dot, who knows, could be 🤷🏻♀️ that's a long time to wait for an unknown though
and lastly:
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Much love,
Winston Chmielinski
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