ARTIST STATEMENT

Do you like getting lost on purpose? I love it. I always prefer local road – over the highway, and it usually leads me to the most interesting places.

Often, the landscapes I paint come to life as a result of me getting literally lost. There, at the very end of the map in peace and solitude, I can reflect on the surrounding world. Later, back at the studio, I search for ways to transfer my impressions onto the canvas. It has always been my paramount goal to imbue the painting with the emotions, forms, colors or sometimes even with the after-images that the place has left within me.

When creating I like to get lost in various ways looking for and testing new media, forms and techniques. Sometimes from that momentary chaos things emerge which stand in opposition to the calming landscapes that have inspired me beforehand. Surreal demons appear that dwell in most of us, just under the skin or deeper within.

I see art as a path that takes me somewhere. It is my meditation and a way to achieve my peace. I hope there is no end to this path as there should always be something worth discovering.

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Paiting series:

BLINKERED

Blinkered is a section of the world seen through a photographic lens and translated into the language of abstract painting. Author invites us to engage in aesthetic vivisection of the work and to inspect the hidden details on the surface. It has the effect of dualistic perception where large-format images draw the attention as close to the detail as possible. The “Blinkered” landscapes are heterogeneous, but at same time distinctive scrap of space has been narrowed down to just a few pixels, and then magnified to a large-format image. The figurative is therefore reduced to its basic and most crucial formal essence.

ALL OF MY DEMONS

I believe everyone has their demons. Some speak about them openly, some strongly disavow them. Everyone has them though. In the world we live in our demons are born easier and faster. They come out of Instagram, Facebook, TV. They emerge on the surface in a traffic jam in the city center, in the office open-space or hatch in city clubs in the morning. They come out of churches, schools, offices and hospitals.

When we start noticing more of them, they overwhelm us, we start to lose the meaning, we get frustrated. We begin to fall into the inner abyss. But we can and should fight it. Name the demons, point your finger at them. Talk about them.

The series I present is my internal attempt to name them. It is a stigmatization of today’s consumerist and selfish world. Named demon is no longer that scary.

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PAINTINGS FROM BLINKERED SERIES

Hopeless_Place_HQ
HOPELESS PLACE
BLINKERED” Series
2023, 
acrylic on 3D canvas
200 x 
150 x 
4 cm /
79″ x 
59″ x 
1.6″
6300
EUR
I_Cant_Hear_The_Birds_HQ
I CAN’T HEAR THE BIRDS
BLINKERED” Series
2023, 
acrylic on 3D canvas
180 x 
240 x 
4 cm /
71″ x 
94″ x 
1.6″
9100
EUR
Fading_Out_HQ
FADING OUT
BLINKERED” Series
2023, 
acrylic on canvas
100 x 
100 x 
2 cm /
39″ x 
39″ x 
0.8″
SOLD
New_Hope_LQ
NEW HOPE
BLINKERED” Series
2023, 
acrylic on canvas
160 x 
100 x 
2 cm /
63″ x 
39″ x 
0.8″
SOLD
Out_Of_The_Sky_HQ
OUT OF THE SKY
BLINKERED” Series
2023, 
acrylic on linen canvas
73 x 
60 x 
2 cm /
28″ x 
24″ x 
0.8″
1500
EUR
Shallow_End_LQ
SHALLOW END
BLINKERED” Series
2023, 
acrylic on 3D linen canvas
140 x 
110 x 
4 cm /
55″ x 
43″ x 
1.6″
3250
EUR
Rise_And_Fall_LQ
RISE AND FALL
BLINKERED” Series
2023, 
acrylic on linen canvas
100 x 
70 x 
2 cm /
39″ x 
28″ x 
0.8″
1500
EUR
Children_Of_A_Lesser_God_LQ
CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD
BLINKERED” Series
2023, 
acrylic on 3D linen canvas, framed
170 x 
90 x 
4 cm /
67″ x 
35″ x 
1.6″
3450
EUR
Forsaken_Minds_LQ
FORSAKEN MINDS
BLINKERED” Series
2023, 
acrylic on linen canvas
100 x 
70 x 
2 cm /
39″ x 
28″ x 
0.8″
SOLD
Half_Past_Midnight_LQ
HALF PAST MIDNIGHT
BLINKERED” Series
2023, 
acrylic on linen canvas
73 x 
60 x 
2 cm /
28″ x 
25″ x 
0.8″
1500
EUR
Skyfall-LQ
SKYFALL
BLINKERED” Series
2023, 
acrylic on 3D canvas
180 x 
80 x 
4 cm /
71″ x 
28″ x 
1.6″
3250
EUR
A_Kiss_Before_Dying_LQ
A KISS BEFORE DYING
BLINKERED” Series
2023, 
acrylic on linen canvas
100 x 
70 x 
2 cm /
39″ x 
28″ x 
0.8″
SOLD

ALL OF MY DEMONS SERIES

This_Is_Us-LQ
THIS IS US
ALL OF MY DEMONS” Series
2023, 
acrylic on canvas
100 x 
120 x 
2 cm /
39″ x 
47″ x 
0.8″
2550
EUR
Borderline_LQ
BORDERLINE
ALL OF MY DEMONS” Series
2019, 
acrylic on canvas
120 x 
140 x 
2 cm /
47″ x 
55″ x 
0.8″
3550
EUR
Ordo_iuris_LQ
ORDO IURIS
ALL OF MY DEMONS” Series
2021, 
acrylic on canvas
200 x 
170 x 
2 cm /
79″ x 
67″ x 
0.8″
7150
EUR
All_of_My_Demons_LQ
ALL OF MY DEMONS
ALL OF MY DEMONS” Series
2019, 
acrylic on canvas
100 x 
100 x 
2 cm /
39″ x 
39″ x 
0.8″
2100
EUR
Saint_And_Sinners_LQ
SAINT AND SINNERS
ALL OF MY DEMONS” Series
2020, 
acrylic on canvas
100 x 
100 x 
2 cm /
39″ x 
39″ x 
0.8″
SOLD

LIMITED GICLEE PRINTS

My offer includes collectible Giclee prints in limited series (50 pieces in each of 4 sizes). Prints are printed in pigment technology, on an EPSON SureColor P 10000 printer and on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308g archival paper. A certificate of authenticity is attached to each print.

EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS

In my career, I have participated in exhibitions, both collective and individual. I also take part in prestigious art fairs, both in Poland and around the world. I encourage you to subscribe to the newsletter to stay up to date with upcoming events.

03.2024
Upcoming! Stalowa Gallery, solo exhibition, Warsaw
11.2023
Upcoming! Station of Art Gallery, solo exhibition, Warsaw
11.2023
Upcoming! XX Warsaw Art Fair
06.2023
ArtShow, Fabryka Norblina, Warsaw
05.2023
AAF Hampstead, London, UK
03.2023
AAF Spring, New York City, USA
03.2023
AAF, London, UK
03.2023
Warsaw Art Market, vol. 11
02.2023
Warsaw Art Market, vol. 10
01.2023
Warsaw Art Market, vol. 9
10.2022
XIX Warsaw Art Fair
04.2022
Project Art, Tryton Biznes House, solo exhibition, Gdańsk
10.2021
Art Shopping Art Fair, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
07.2021
EuropArtFair, 1st Prize, curators award, Amsterdam,
06.2021
Interview in CONTEMPORARY LYNX MAGAZINE (2)2021, London
02.2021
Interview in 123Art Magazine, New York
01.2021
Project Art, solo exhibition “Blinkered”, Domoteka, Warsaw
07.2020
Project Art, solo exhibition “Blinkered”, Bonifacio Gallery
06.2020
III Affordable Art Fair, Warsaw
10.2019
II Affordable Art Fair, Warsaw
06.2019
I Affordable Art Fair, Warsaw
05.2019
Project Art, “Landscape is Just the Beginning”, group exhibition, Warsaw
04.2019
Moderna Gallery, group exhibition, Warsaw
03.2019
Ney Gallery, solo exhibition “Blinkered”, Warsaw.

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CONTACT

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