Ziolkowski Julian Jakub- Hokaina [exhibition catalog](infrequent)

Warsaw 2010/ Zachęta National Gallery of Art/ first edition/ publisher's binding, half-canvas/ 19.5x24.5cm/s.157/ color reproductions in the text/ very good condition-, insignificant rubbing of the corners of the binding

Catalog accompanying the monographic exhibition of Jakub Julian Ziółkowski entitled. Hokaina which was held at Zachęta in 2010.

The book contains, among other things, a text about the artist's work and more than one hundred reproductions of his works (paintings and gouaches) from 2005-2010. Uncommon.

Jakub Julian Ziolkowski - born in 1980 in Zamosc. He lives in Cracow. In 2005 he graduated from the Faculty of Painting and Drawing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow. Painter, draughtsman, he also creates sculptures and spatial structures, as well as projects from the borderline of design. His paintings and prints resemble elaborate structures, casket-like compositions in which spun tales create a vast web of meanings. One of the first painters of the youngest generation to turn his back on modernity in a way, to draw inspiration from the traditions of Surrealism, metaphysical painting, Japanese and Indian art, the work of Neo Rauch, Giorgio de Chirico, Alfred Kubin, James Ensor, Otto Dix, and Pablo Picasso, among others. Essential in his art is the relationship between the reality of the image and what creates that reality. Individual motifs and elements build a seemingly chaotic world, in which, paradoxically, however, there is order. A frequent subject of Ziolkowski's work is still life, initially rendered meticulously - full of insects and dense, overgrown vegetation, filling the canvas space in an ornamental manner - which, however, becomes increasingly abstract in later works. Studies of figures, also penetrating their mental and physical interior, painted flatly, without perspective or clear modeling, are a kind of, as Jakub Banasiak writes, "impressions on the subject of portraiture." He works with the Foksal Gallery Foundation and Hauser & Wirth. [source: zachęta.art.pl].