Kowalik Marcin

Wake up the sleeping young man with the burning wick according to Nicolas Regnie

The image of the cycle: Unknown Kingdom created on request. Themes are used repeatedly in the selected format. UNKNOWN KINGDOM Human brain displays unlimited possibilities. When I enter the world of an old painting, I trigger off my imagination. I can imagine the scene from an old painting as a three-dimensional theatre stage, where I can walk among hreedimensional characters and object, and delve deeper into that world (also beyond the frames of a painting). It is all based on hypotheses connected with painting facts and the ”physics” of a particular painting. This is a form of creating a secondary world of an old painting by giving the elements of a painting new life that is suspended in ”another parallel world”. In order to create some painting reality to some extent separate from the one around us, I focused even more on a painting itself at the successive stage of my work. I started to paint my paintings from other paintings, to establish my personal dialogue with paintings of other painters, as I wanted to be closer to a painting and the elements of its world. It all refers to my diploma the Unknown Kingdom (National Museum in Kraków), which contained all the stages and interests that had constituted my artistic way till that point. It dealt with the problems of the painting language, looking at old paintings in the context of deconstruction as well as an artistic dialogue, i.e. an attempt to create paintings telling hypothetical painting stories taken from the old works. Marcin Kowalik Price depends on the image size of 4000 zł. (size 40x50) -12000 zł. (size 130x200).

Details

• Catalog number: 16/KOWALIK/5
• Technique: Acrylic on canvas