acrylic, canvas, own technique-predraping, airbrush, 70 x 100 cm, signed "pablo"
Gift of the Artist
Pawel Bienkiewicz, born 1962, is a self-taught artist. He creates abstract works. A recognizable feature of the artist's paintings is the technique he calls PREDRAPING. Here the author has created his own visual language, based on the idea of transferring reverse engineering to artistic creation. It is a combination of canvas-sculpting and airbrush lasering. The technique allows to enhance in flat paintings the features of three-dimensionality, where the matter enchanted in the plane plays its dance, changes shapes, colors and shades, being an actor suspended somewhere in space, full of undulations, vibrations and unknown forces. The finished works attract with their depth, force the viewer to constantly change the angle of view, hide a certain multidimensional mystery. Perhaps, looking at these paintings-frames, we are inside an atom and see the micro-world of elementary particles stopped for a moment, or it is possible that we are in outer space and see vast areas of the universe.
In parallel, the author uses his canvas paintings, which are finished, independent artistic entities, as matrices for a further creative process based on photo collage and digital painting. The result is digital works that are not literal photographs of matrices, but digitally modified alternatives of paintings made on canvas.
