Jan TARASIN (1926-2009), Fragment, 1973

oil, canvas; 72 x 80 cm;
Signed and dated p. d.: Jan Tarasin 73;
Signed, dated and described on the back; JAN TARASIN / 1973 / "FRAGMENT".

Rarely do we have to deal with an artist who is consistent, with a formed
idea and artistic views. With an artist freely expressing himself
In many fields of art such as painting, drawing, graphic design, literature.
With broad horizons, both intellectual reaching from the
Pieter Paul Bruegel's painting to philosophy and Far Eastern art.
Focused on analysis, creation, creativity and artistry in the most basic
of these words, simplifying the surrounding world to a sign or
rhythm, drawing on the earliest inspirations, such as the
laws and mechanisms governing nature. Jan Tarasin, despite using
synthetic forms, builds complex, thoroughly thought-out,
re-constructed compositions. He seems to be preoccupied with semantics
in the field of painting.
Such an extensive search for inspiration stems from the artist's conviction that European culture
European culture has closed itself within the limited circle of the philosophy of anthropocentrism
and European cultural codes. It seems that Jan Tarasin
considered European culture to be one that puts a limit on itself and is content to
with the simplest perception of things.
In Jan Tarasin's paintings, the signs and symbols placed on the canvas seem
seem like carelessly thrown blobs of paint. Is this in fact so, or perhaps
are these studies of the kinetics of bodies and objects? From deconstructing an object, dividing
it precisely into small signs, are created Records, Situations, Complications,
Dynamic Phases, Magazines - that is, series of canvases by Jan Tarsin. Paintings
of the painter force us to abandon order, the unambiguity of the symbol, rational
thinking, in favor of new cognitive experiences and independent
shaping the environment from the objects available on the canvas
in the best new context.