kind of woman | 2002-2006
Pawel does not have a TV set. Paweł will not have a TV set. A TV set in Paweł's world is something completely useless – it would be an impostor, an awful ignorant distorting the positive waves coming from Paweł's paintings. Paweł depicts people himself, tells extraordinary stories which really took place, notes down the mysteries of events in which individual people and moments are important. These stories do not tell you what happened, what it looked like and when it finished; it is a different kind of narration Why do the meninas always look you straight in the eye and what is the colour of friendship between man and horse? Why does the sky turn gold when we watch it from the rooftop? Is it because the fish is mute that it knows all about us…perhaps it is diving into our dreams again, the cruel one? Are we aware of how even wooden floors are needed for complicated space-curving spaces? Is it possible to come in contact with what is most important? With a certain amount of luck, it is, as everything that is important reveals itself by accident, for instance when we are taking a bath – the idea comes to us just when water is trickling from our hair. Everything that is important can be found in a single room, in an action, a moment, a meeting, a wish, a painting. You can read about it in Paweł's paintings! They are sometimes memories attached to reality, not lengthwise, however, but slightly at an angle, as Paweł paints mostly immaterial objects, stories that are timeless. In those stories, the natural balance between abstraction and a particular kind of naturalism is always kept. They contain signs that could function in detachment from their environment as phenomena because full form has been given to them; they have their own proper names in the language of painting. Before they were given these names, they did not function in the visible world, but when they are seen in Paweł's paintings, one cannot doubt that they look exactly as they should. In my opinion, people such as Paweł should have the absolute right of amazement. Always. Only by being amazed at what is, at what is visible and at what is invisible, but what can be seen by painting an artwork allows to have a fresh approach to the world. Frequently when Paweł would go out of his studio, I felt this sudden crave and I could not resist going to see what he had "written" there. His works are excellently flavoured and there is a lot of cinnamon in them (cinnamon has a great colour, probably Paweł adds it to his paints), so that one can finally have breakfast. Today it would be nice to have it on a blue roof, for example! by gosia szandala | pl
10/42 | mixed media paintings / collage / canvas / drawing / intaglio