SOLO EXHIBITION
SOLO EXHIBITION
SOLO EXHIBITION
The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
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The World's Leading Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
Gaya
Lastovjak
POLAND
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“My art is an expression of personal experiences and observations, but it does not exist apart from reality.”
“Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament” - Emile Zola
The painting "Disappearance" touches on the theme of death and its closeness. It evokes a lot of reflection with an existential, but also very romantic tint. In this work I wanted to draw attention to the harmony of scarcity, deficiency and wholeness.
I consider myself a contemporary figurative artist, because I do not limit myself to a specific field of art, such as painting, sculpture or happenings, they are all important to me and they are all connected by one subject – human.
"Perception". Among the multiplicity of meanings, we choose what we want to see. It is only a scrap of the reality that surrounds us, but completely ours.
Most often, however, I focus on creating three-dimensional paintings with my own technique using papier-mâché, canvas and oil paint. Here each figure takes their own pose for depiction of specified social problems. As an artist, I’m fascinated by existential mechanisms and emotions, such as struggle, strength, fear, but also freedom, love, and eroticism, as they dynamically enter into dialogue with history, society and human individuality.
“At some point, after many attempts, I managed to put sculpture and painting together.”
My paintings are covered mainly with white paint to emphasize the light and shadow, thanks to which the artworks gain some kind of brightness / transparency and the viewer focuses on the form and chiaroscuro.
“My paintings became a kind of a display case, in which I placed a carefully modeled, three-dimensional image of a human being – however, not taken from ordinary vision, but experienced by me in my own way, according to my personal sensitivity.”
Currently, the subject of my works deals with the issues of beauty, spirituality and empathy. It also gained symbolic saturation. The paintings became a kind of a display case, in which I placed a carefully modeled, three-dimensional image of a human being, however not taken from ordinary vision, but experienced by me in my own way, according to my personal sensitivity.
"Change" tells about the transformation that each of us has undergone recently. Human fate is influenced by various circumstances and he has the right to mature to changes in decisions and attitudes. This work is about hope and optimism, about getting a second chance from life to everyone to fix something we haven't fully understood so far. It also shows that transformation is an illustration of the dynamic nature of man.
“As an artist, I’m fascinated by existential mechanisms and emotions, such as struggle, strength, fear, but also freedom, love, and eroticism, as they dynamically enter into dialogue with history, society and human individuality.”
The painting entitled "The Game" is my currently biggest work and it is still being expanded, because it is based on the idea of a never-ending painting. The way I do this is by organizing a happening during an exhibition, in order have the faces of its participants cast and then become a part of a more composite painting. The chessboard with faces placed on it is used to criticize the society which reduces a person to a pawn or just another number in statistics, anonymous and lonely.
The beginning of the search for the form that you see today was the high school times. At the time, I encountered various ways of artistic communication. I was most fascinated by sculpture and painting. Even though I loved both disciplines, I was irritated by their limitations. One was too spatial, the other one too flat. At some point, after many attempts, I managed to put them together. This is how the first three-dimensional painting "O-RZ 1" was created.
The painting "Trapped" refers to the times of strict isolation. It shows an internal tear and uncertainty about the future, hence its static form. Hope is added by the hands that surround the figure.
Since then, my technique has not changed much when it comes to the workshop itself, I rather refined it properly, you can say that I have perfected the nuances themselves. Rather, the approach to the issues raised has changed. Initially, the form itself, the composition of the artwork, played the main role whereas the content was of secondary relevance. Over time, whether under the influence of other artists’ works or the spontaneous crystallization of patterns, subjects such as loneliness, shame or dread began to appear (these were the adolescence years, hence the rather gloomy accent of the paintings). Currently, the subject matter has become calmer and focuses on issues such as internal struggle, strength, and to present various emotional states of the human.
The painting touches on the subject of connivance, but not in the context of tolerance or forbearance, but in the turning a blind eye to something wrong. Here, connivance appears as tolerating a situation in which there is harm to another person. It also criticizes the forgiving attitude of evil-doers who feel no guilt or repentance. I chose the title "Connivance", because it also means collusion and complicity, which further strengthens its message.
Many artists have influenced me since the beginning of my artistic path. Ancient art fascinated me in my youth, it has significantly influenced the current form of my paintings, as well as my departure from the traditional range of colors in favor of monochrome. I didn't want my work to follow a certain style, or to look like someone else's work, and I think I did it.
"Restriction" is one of the smallest paintings I have ever made. Despite small size, the message is strong and unambiguous. Tied feet say that in certain situations we are helpless, something prevents us from moving forward, holds us back and nothing can change that.
“The language of art is universal, it is the language of emotions and senses.”
The artwork "Rapacity" like many of my other works, has a symbolic meaning. It raises the issue of the growing surveillance that is bursting into our daily lives. Its purpose is to draw attention to the problem of constant attacks on human privacy and anonymity.
When it comes to the influence of specific artists, I was inspired by their attitude and approach to art rather than the works themselves. Personally, I love such artists as Christy Brown, Vincent van Gogh, L. S. Lowry, and Frida Kahlo. These creators never gave up despite adversities. My inspiration, on the other hand, comes from fashion photography and from such creators as Vadim Stein or Annie Leibovitz. Like them, I try to combine elements of slight aesthetic provocation, thus not going beyond the limits of good taste.
This painting is interesting because it differs from the others. Instead of covering the entire canvas with paint, I used newspaper clippings that write about art. Hence the name "Influences". Hands represent a teacher who influences our later achievements, and newspaper clippings about art allude to the artistic heritage. The picture was taken against a white wall.
I believe that every work of art has a dual message. The language of art is universal, it is the language of emotions and senses. The sensations that accompany the feelings awaken a desire to enter into an internal dialogue with the work of art in every sensitive recipient. Attempts to answer questions, looking for the questions themselves, creating multifaceted meanings. This world of emotions, feelings, looking into oneself or looking beyond what is visible and called. This is how I see the world, this is how I want to reach another person. Arouse a movement, anxiety, emotion, all kinds of feelings because the language of art is a language that unites various sensitivities. I would like to induce a dialogue between the work and the viewer, prompting the viewer to reflect on himself and the world around him.
The theme of bathing has been present in art since the times of antiquity. Carnality, the body in the bath is something intimate. The bath is an excuse to show the beauty of the human body and refers to allegorical impurity such as anxiety, troubles and worries that we want to wash away from ourselves. From 2020, I was fascinated by this simple and at the same time calm subject, thanks to which a whole series of paintings referring to the topic of bathing was created.