Oil, canvas, 150 × 90 cm, signed on stretcher: 'Kulakowski'
EXHIBITED:
Mariusz Kulakowski. Clearances, Sopot Auction House, November - December 2018
LITERATURE:Mariusz Kulakowski, Sopot 2022, p. 118.
We can assume that the world of constantly passing events, stopped in motion, will resemble color fields, stripes or circles. Each point in the image is their beginning or end of changes. I create parallel textural paintings, strip and center compositions. These various forms of imagery are transformed, based on the phenomenon of synergy. By defining "any" points in the painting, transforming them, new plastic versions are created. We are accustomed to the artwork being exhibited in a fixed arrangement (top and bottom). Now, by the decision of the artist or collector, the painting can be exposed at will. The possibility for further transformations and new belt or centering arrangements arises. The context of the work's composition changes. Henceforth, a painting can even have several titles and at the same time several formal arrangements. The artist has an obvious right to use shapes that exist in nature, regardless of the pretensions of critics claiming that they come from the "art world." For example, we see circle motifs every day, observing natural phenomena. We can observe them in paintings by Malevich, Fangor, Rondinone, Gierowski and many others. The concept of reevaluation gives me the freedom to work within the framework of multi-style and further exposes the position of the viewer. Now he personally can set the painting and give it a title, with this he brings "his own work" to life. Included in the creative process, he has a real influence on the condition of art. The concept of reevaluation inevitably relegates the influence of art criticism to the background. It emphasizes the importance of the artist's painting skills, for example, and reinforces the role of the viewer. In this situation, the "world of art criticism" is shifted to the role of an insightful observer and participant in the dialogue with the artist and the viewer.
Mariusz Kulakowski, "The concept of reevaluation".
Studied at the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk; he graduated in 1987 in the studio of Prof. Vladimir Lajming. His works are in the collections of, among others: Museum of Lubuska Land, National Museum in Gdansk (Contemporary Art Branch), UM in Sopot, Collection of ZPAP in Lodz, private collections. Author of painting series: "Profiles", "Gradients", "Icons". He has developed a distinctive style of painting based on perfectly painted tonal transitions. The artist is the winner of several international and national painting competitions. Selected exhibitions: 1988 - "Arsenal 88", National Exhibition of Young Visual Arts, Warsaw; "Diploma 87", Zachęta Gallery, Warsaw; 2005 - "Memory and Participation", National Museum in Gdansk, Abbots' Palace in Oliwa, Gdansk; 3rd National Biennial of Painting and Unique Textile, Tricity - honorable mention; 2006 - "Barcode", Historical Museum of the City of Gdansk; 21st Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting, Szczecin; 2007 - "Autumn Confrontations", Triennale of Polish Contemporary Painting, BWA, Rzeszow; 1st International Painting Biennale, QUADRO-ART. 2007, Łódź, Historical Museum - award of the President of ZPAP; 2008 ZPAP Gallery, individual exhibition, Gdańsk; 2008 XXII Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting in Szczecin - nomination for the award; 2009 - III Premio Internationale di Pittura e Grafica "Natale di Roma" 2009, Cascina Farsetti, 3 °Classificato ex aequo - Sezione Pittura, Rome, Italy; 2012 "On the road..." Starogardzkie Centrum Kultury Gallery A, Starogard Gdański; 2018 - Sopot Auction House "Mariusz Kulakowski. Clearances"
