Between abstract and figurative (Painting)

What if Icarus, upon reaching the sun, discovered an unimaginable truth—not only about the nature of the sun itself, which turned out to be cold and angular, but above all about the nature of his own imaginings? It was they that caused him to burn long before reaching his destination. What happens when we cross the boundary of fear? The horizon begins to settle. The primordial storm and chaos give way to an emerging order. The world assumes its superposition, and we find ourselves in a place that no one had seen before—or that only a chosen few had ever been granted the chance to witness.   As the Polish rapper Pezet once said: “When I was falling, I wasn’t really falling, because I had learned how to fly.” Here, this line becomes not merely a commentary, but the axis around which the entire story revolves. This is an alternative story of Icarus, who, in falling, discovered another world—wild and exotic, yet at the same time familiar and primordial. The place he arrived at, however, was not the place he had set out to reach. . The walk on the edge of the sun Adrianna GajdziszewskaTwarda Sztuka, Curator and Visual

Good is the enemy of better In this exhibition, I present primarily new forms made of steel. Steel is a material I grew up with. My father ran a company involved in the industrial production of steel machines. This entire industry, concentrated on Towarowa Street in Jasło, feels to me like a breath of emerging capitalism in Poland. When I think about that time, I see new housing blocks being built, steel cranes in the urban landscape, old prefab factories. I feel an atmosphere of hope and change that, as a child, I was only barely aware of. Goods from the West were flowing into Poland, the world was becoming colorful — we had pizza, Turbo chewing gum, Caro cigarettes and unfiltered Klubowe. This is how I now see the landscape of those years. In my father’s view, steel was a solid, durable, and trustworthy material. It seems that the rest of society shared this opinion as well. According to him, steel serves a purpose — it fulfills a function. It has no aesthetic value, but it does have properties: load resistance, elasticity, shrinkage, melting temperature. In his opinion, steel should be powder-coated — it should not be left raw,

text Piotr Kolanko Between Abstract and figurative Painting