| Series | Diaries |
|---|---|
| Year | 2024 |
| Medium | oil, pencil / canvas |
| Dimensions | 90 x 70 cm |
| Signature | Włodzimierz Pawlak, Journal /April/, 70×90, 2024 |
“(…) the framework of this very cycle [Dzienniki] is constituted primarily by: extreme introversion, Benedictine work and abiding by the effects of the eternal medium. Despite endless rehearsals after
repetitions of the same – seemingly – activities, this painting has nothing mechanical about it. It is instinctive, imprecise, casual. How it comes out. Because although Pawlak hasn’t painted
human figures for a long time, what he paints is incredibly human. The type of this painting humanism of his, although reduced to the simplest gestures, engages our centers both intellectually and emotionally, giving
a total experience. This effect is clearly seen against the backdrop of the disorder of some of today’s art snobbery of scientific discursiveness,
but lacking the workshop dominance of decisions. Pseudooff, because it tolerates the coexistence of irreconcilable rules within one
whole. Where the space of creation is filled with hybrid creations, remaining in relationships with art and among themselves barely phraseological. ~ Andrew Biernacki
Włodzimierz Pawlak (born April 15, 1957 in Korytów near Żyrardów) is an acclaimed Polish painter, performer, poet and art theorist whose work has played a significant role in the Polish art scene since the 1980s. Pawlak graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he studied under Rajmund Ziemski and also began working as a lecturer in 1986. He was one of the co-founders of the avant-garde art group “Gruppa,” which in the 1980s took bold actions commenting on the socio-political situation in Poland during martial law.
ISOIS Sp. z o.o.
00 – 511 Warsaw, ul. Nowogrodzka 31, Poland
REGON: 382378426, NIP: 7010903204, KRS: 0000767954
