I am the wave that carries ideas, that washes and trickles your feet with a cold current, stimulates and disappears
An intuitive, exressive painting is my nature way of being. An important thing for me is development. Each picture is to be discovering a new area. Each painting series is treading on virgin soil
I believe that the spontaneous, expansive way of painting honestly reflects the real nature of things. Above all, however, there is an empathic attitude towards another human being. My mission is to help myself and others live as truly as possible a life that satisfies us
I am a change. I work in series. I paint the ideas. However, consistently the power that drives me is the pursuit of finding the truth, the answer to the most timeless, existential questions: why am I here? what is happening with me? What forces work for me? what's it all about?
I reach for pure, bright colors. Work with sprays. I want to get to the bottom of the problem using as minimal forms as possible. I have the impression that painting disarms the bomb. We live in a tornado of issues and ignorance that unclear vision, and painting is like a thread by Ariadne who solves those problems
Painting is sexi, it is sensual. It carries a huge load of erotic experiences. Painting is like making love. You give all the best from yourself and get great satisfaction
2022
The new works are in my studio, never show to anyone, because meanwile the war in Ukraine has started and I paint the unkranian favorite sunflowers. My mind is still with Ukraine now.
2021
VACCINATED WITH ART during pandemic many of my friends were depresed. I have seen the amazing french movie about the wild life „ Kingdom". Waching it I realize that we should kiss the soil we step on. We are blessed to live in this amazing wold. The nature is ever lasting power and we are the part of it. I started to paint wild animals especialy cheetahs who represent the strenth of nature, to keep my mood up. The state of mind can stay high, while having in front of the eyes the beauty of the nature. Looking at those works the audience is vaccinated with art.
VACCINATED WITH ART was exhibited in The City Museum of Wroclaw, Arsenal in June 2021. A selection 1/3 of the paintings were show.
2020
BODY OF THOUGHT shows the meaning of words.
In the beginning there was a word.
Our life happens in the head.
We have 100% influence on what we think.
We decide what meanings we give to facts.
The world is the way you think it is.
The world is as you say it is.
The words we use become true.
By using good words, we create a good life.
Pictures painted on golden material with the words, rhythmically repeating like in a song: love love, safe safe, good good…
it’s a kind of meditation to stop control and start to live
BODY OF THOUGHT is a series of 21 paintings, painted on golden materials, rythmically repeted, exhibited in EklektikArt Foudation in Wroclaw in May 2020 is a statement about the condition of contemporary human
2018
THEWORLDISCHANGINGFROMDOINGNOTHING – shows the process of transformation of a contemporary stressed out workaholic, raised in Western culture, where being productive is the highest virtue, who later recognizes the value also in the wisdom of Eastern culture, where it is important to be here and now. From treating life as a struggle, to gain positions and goods, to a gentle acceptance of what life brings us. Reconciling these two trends is our everyday life.
2018 in May an exhibition at the NIGHT OF MUSEUMS at the M Odwach Gallery in Wrocław, selection of 17 paintings from 26 from the series and the second part of it at my studio
2017
I AM JUST READY TO BE ME shows the efforts of a man looking for a „miracle diet for the soul“, therapy that will make him feel good, seeking happiness, being in constant recycling, renewing himself, working on his character and attitude; which is emphasized by the technique, where I sewed scraps, waste from previous paintings together and painted pictures on them so that they were a visual sign of the possibility of creating a new being from pieces of the old body. The base was 6 human needs / Tony Robbins wisdom/
I AM JUST RADY TO BE ME is a series of 19 paintings exhibited in 2017 in National Forum of Music in Wroclaw.1. security: TABLE, H2O, 2. Change : STANDING UPSIDEDOWN 3. relationship: FATHER/ MOTHER/ DOGS/ 4.significant LEADER 5. grouth : THE PALNT 6.giving, sharing : EARS, HANDS, SKATER
2016
TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE – how to find tolerance in myself? How to be gentle when someone atacts me with a different opinion about things that are important to me? When even families split into political camps, I felt very sorry, powerless. Being aware how fragile is the peace I painted bees, the images of that is associated with values such as work, security, good, home, homeland. The work on bees paintings is kind of quiet meditation, the prayer for peace.
TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE exhibition at Station Design Gallery Wroclaw in 2017 was the selection 10 from 21 paintings
2015
SOS – the works were created during the armed conflict in Ukraine and the paralyzing, existential fear was unimanageable. My focus was on children. I surrounded their images with colorful stiky tapes to hide them in a safe space, isolate them from dangerous events and dread. Colorful tapes, which are used in Japan for graphic communication at railway stations, inspired me. Others, labeled „attention, gentle“ surround children’s portraits
SOS – the series shown on the exhibition „Direct Painting“ in City Gallery in Wroclaw in 2016. From 26 painings shown there were also series „That counts“ New Yors, Paris, London, Berlin and Tokyo
2013
GOOD PAINTER IS A FAMOUS PAINTER showing portraits of artists I admire and who influenced me. I included in the group those artists who are not known, but who create great works and deserve recognition – contemporary women – Polish artists. Apart from the portraits of Picasso, Basquiat and Joan Mitchell, Bjarne Melgaard, Jonathan Messe, there were also Małgosia Warlikowska, Kasia Kmita, and Alex Urban.
GOOD PAINTER IS A FAMOUS PAINTER was exhibited in M Odwach Gallery in 2013 - 24 pieces from 40 - done between 2010 to 2013
2012
I CHOSE YOU is a series about blind children. Looking at Goya’s works, I like the most the last onces, when he was losing his vision. They are real, wild, uncompromising, expressive, touching the heart. Loss of sight is the worst thing for a painter, isn’t it? How the life of the blind looks like? Here you can see their passions and emotions; the ability to „see“ with other senses. Is their extraordinary sensitivity understandable to us? Maybe we’re not seeing something?
I CHOSE YOU – series of 21 work exhibited in 2013 at the Pod Plafonem Gallery in Wrocław.
They were sponsored by Lower Silesian Voivodeship Scolarship Fund
2011
ALIEN DNA – Now we often watch the world through the screen. Cell, computer, tv . The screen distorts. I painted the figures of swimmers underneath, waves of media interference on top. But do these disturbances bother you? Not always. They can introduce new possibilities, new values to the world of visual impressions. This is a series of reconciling the world of traditional painting on canvas with the world of new media. The first is a swimmer, the second is the flikering screen pixels.
ALIEN DNA series- 20 works done 2011, but the photoes draft is from 2005, in May at the NIGHT OF MUSEUMS an exhibition at Galeria Szyperska in Poznan and in 2011 in December at the City Museum of Wroclaw
2010
BRAINWASHING – At that time, mainly video arts were exhibited in galleries. The fashion for video has taken over the visual arts. As an artist working in painting, I felt off the seen. Sometimes I have a feeling the medium has become more important than the content. I painted a series of headphones to make my exhibition similar to those in force at that time. They were a row of skulls looking at the exhibition from the perspective of eternity.
BRAINWASHING – series 2010 March exhibition at Unit24 in London all works in series 16
2006
„Polish Paintings of the 21st Century“ group exhibition where 3 of my works from the MASHINES series were shown. MASHINES are large-format toys painted on colored canvases. Art is not only a heavy philosophy, but also a well-painted image. Gesture, freedom, expression and a theme close to the heart are the features of many excellent works that we see in museums. MASHINES were done for my son, then 5, who pulled me to visit all construction sites and sat behind the weel of the roller.
POLISH PAINTING OF THE XXI century – group exhibition in Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw in 2006.
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