From 2 to 26 September 2015, in the exhibition The Power of Abstraction, the artists will present their latest works and lead art workshops for young people. The artists belong to the same generation and for several years have been in artistic dialogue. They do not work as a group or create theoretical manifestos, nor have they previously shown their work within the framework of a single exhibition. They rather share a sensibility and interests translated into the language of art. They are among the most talented Polish artist of the younger generation and operate in their own language of abstraction and with their own original creative method.
The work of Bartosz Kokosiński is characterized by a multiplicity of forms – visual, audiovisual, and experimental on unconventional ground. His visual art includes unique object-images that demonstrate the great imagination of their creator.
Grzegorz Kozera is an easel painter, but also works in collage. His works revolve around themes of identity, physicality, intimacy, transience, and death. At the heart of his work is the relationship between man, body, and exterior.
Paweł Matyszewski’s art is characterized by his unusual approach to the image. Reaching for different genres and conventions, he achieves work that goes far beyond the framework of traditional painting and the original surfaces of his painting provoke our touch.
The work of Iza Rogucki attempts to describe the philosophical sense of a space full of physical limits, but also emptiness. To this end, she often experiments with perspective, as well as computer programs that give her work an original, digital effect.
The main inspirations for Irmina Staś are existential problems and situational boundaries. Reflections on the relationship between mind and body are often mirrored in the interior of the organism and the conflicts that take place between the elements.
The Power of Abstraction: Polish Painters in Minsk, 2-26 September 2015
Opening: 2 September 2015
Curator: Michał Jachuła
Organizers: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Museum of Modern Fine Art in Minsk, Galeria Le Guern, Polish Institute in Minsk