Nous Evolution (Mokotowska 63/64 (klatka 5, piętro 5) 00-533 Warsaw, Poland) cordially invites you to the newest exhibit of Marcin Kowalik: painter, a graduate of Prof. Adam Wsiołkowski’s studio at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts’ Faculty of Painting in 2006. Assistant Doctor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Painting at the home university.
The newest works by Marcin Kowalik feature paintings with irregular, often untypical shapes. By using this form, the artist is seeking to familiarize the audience with the painting element.
During more than 20 years of his intensive painting activity, Kowalik has been analyzing various painting processes in a painter’s way. These include processes associated with both the creation and the reception of a work of art.
The effect of a (flat) painting in a 3-dimensional room is highlighted by the important moment of the recipient’s transition from the natural perception of the surrounding space to the painting space. The “Frame” is the border that separates these two spaces.
During his most recent years, the artist has been combining painting elements included in a picture with the painting’s background and edges. Another step that is supposed to help the recipient enter the painting space is the attempt to make a disposal of the frame and the picture as a painting object in its standard, rectangular understanding, in favor of extracting the element itself — the essence of the painting. The minimalist, illusory-mathematical objects created in this way directly immerse the recipient in the painting thought process of the artist.
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