30.06-10.10.2009
Jarosław Kozłowski’s art is an incessant stream of questions; often perfidious, at times – frankly iconoclastic; usually – inquisitive; questions which keep penetrating the recurrent themes and motifs of Kozłowski’s art. In the early works, these investigations concerned art itself and, especially, its language. In the following decades, these analytical reflections, never abandoned, were to acquire a progressively critical dimension. The artist multiplied queries and doubts; exposed paradoxes and ambiguities in thinking about art. Sometimes, without standing on ceremony, Kozłowski put artistic mythologies and claims in their place. He regarded the transparency of language – and its fit with the reality depicted or described – with suspicion.
Jarosław Kozłowski continues his reflection on art and its relation with the media in his Screens. He critically analyses painting with its tendency to shadow reality and add an aesthetic aspect to real images. Each painting, as he says himself, is somehow a screen, a cover for the real; however, this message contains much hypocrisy, too. The artist alludes to this duality of painterly practice in the two versions of designed screens; the “luxury” version reveals the hidden things by TV monitors, in the standard one the things sheltered by screens will be reflected in convex mirrors.
Curator: Bozena Czubak
