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We invite you to the exhibition of paintings by Janusz Oskar Knorowski
"Baltic, Birches, Storks".
The vernissage will take place on May 10 at 7:00 PM at the STALOWA Gallery, 26 Stalowa St., Warsaw.
The exhibition is open from May 10 to June 24, 2023.
About the exhibition:
BALTIC
The internal space of the painting, rhythm, color, and giving a mental dominant to a single subject are a brief characterization of the reasons for the creation of these paintings. They are the result of direct observation and the transposition of the subject to avoid the banality of representation. Hence frequent changes in form and the method of painterly notation. They are a collection of experiences, containing a trace of human existence, of breakwaters organizing space and composition. They also offer unlimited possibilities for creating their surface—from textural precision to expressive gesture and the play of painterly accidents. Maintaining a uniform format gives the exhibition the possibility of frame-by-frame viewing of paintings with various intensities, spaces, and contents of painterly means. The variable renewability and vitality of this subject is an atavistic immersion in painting.
BIRCHES
Birches are a cycle—the multiplication of a single subject, which has occupied me for 27 years now. All the time I find and discover new events in painting this simple subject. Although countable, painting them causes an almost fractal infinity. Sometimes I pictorially define their structure and the tangibility of matter, other times I limit the representation to value and shades of gray, all the way to complete graphitization. Paintings of various formats are created, building a relationship of space within the exhibition interiors, often creating the gallery space. The core of this cycle consists of paintings of single birch trunks, as if cut
out of reality. Several hundred of them have been created over the years. They have also been the compositional axis of many of my exhibitions. Importantly, in the interpretations of viewers, they acquire multiple meanings and associations. Read directly as an element of the native landscape, but also
symbolically. Franz Walter Schmidt, curator of my exhibitions in Germany, in his lectures gave these paintings historical significance, recalling the insurgent crosses and the film "The Birch Wood". Birches also have personal meaning in my life. In 1990, I planted a small patch of land with small birch saplings. Now, among the mature birches, there is my small summer studio.
STORKS
Lying down I watched the storks taxiing. The painting is a record of the rhythm of nature, without any interpretation. During an exhibition in Germany, "Storks" was interpreted as a protest against the attack on the World Trade Center. A greater absurdity was never heard again later. In Zurich, I learned that many Polish storks had settled in Switzerland. The war in the Balkans interrupted their flight path to Poland. "Storks" is a picture-stamp that I can repeat twice a year - in spring and at the end of summer.
- Janusz Oskar Knorowski
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