Przestrzen do wynajecia
Exhibition: "Jerozolima building" Warsaw, 2012
Abandoned hospitals are usually demolished. The former Omega Children's Hospital, now called ‘Jerozolima’ after an art club that used to be located there, was rented to artists. 5 floors, people who collectively create, meet, discuss. A utopia that comes true. A post-season place. Abandoned corridors, green operating room tiles, remnants of medical equipment, fragments of toys in the slots under the stave, isolation ward, inoperative elevators, holes, ventilation grilles, drawings on the walls and thousands of other traces from the past. This place is sick and no normal person would be able to work here. It is empty, dirty and quiet, in the distance an artist sometimes wanders around like a patient. Strange, abandoned resort. The grayish-green color of the thick, pre-war walls penetrates my paintings. They are dictated by this space, until I tame it, I will not be able to paint anything else. I create artwork especially for this place. Unfurnished paintings, uninhabited planes of color like empty rooms with traces of previous users, like space for rent. I have the impression that it was no coincidence that I found myself in ‘Jerozolima.’ The title of the exhibition refers not only to this place, but also to my personal space for rent; a large space that remained after the time which has passed in a natural way. My paintings are about that.
Exhibition: "Jerozolima building" Warsaw, 2012
Abandoned hospitals are usually demolished. The former Omega Children's Hospital, now called ‘Jerozolima’ after an art club that used to be located there, was rented to artists. 5 floors, people who collectively create, meet, discuss. A utopia that comes true. A post-season place. Abandoned corridors, green operating room tiles, remnants of medical equipment, fragments of toys in the slots under the stave, isolation ward, inoperative elevators, holes, ventilation grilles, drawings on the walls and thousands of other traces from the past. This place is sick and no normal person would be able to work here. It is empty, dirty and quiet, in the distance an artist sometimes wanders around like a patient. Strange, abandoned resort. The grayish-green color of the thick, pre-war walls penetrates my paintings. They are dictated by this space, until I tame it, I will not be able to paint anything else. I create artwork especially for this place. Unfurnished paintings, uninhabited planes of color like empty rooms with traces of previous users, like space for rent. I have the impression that it was no coincidence that I found myself in ‘Jerozolima.’ The title of the exhibition refers not only to this place, but also to my personal space for rent; a large space that remained after the time which has passed in a natural way. My paintings are about that.
me at the balcon in Jerozolima building
studio in "Jerozolima"
"radio tower in Torun", 81 x 60 cm, 2014, oil on canvas. Private collection.
"untitled", 200 x 150 cm, 2012, oil on canvas. Private collection.
"lantern", 180 x 140 cm , 2012, oil on canvas. Private collection.
"friends 2010 -2015", 100 x 100 cm. 2010 - 2015, oil on canvas.
Private collection.
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In 2010, I painted profile pictures of my 150 closest friends, according to Dunbar's theory, which states that our brain is able to maintain close ties with up to 150 people. 5 years later, I verified this list and painted over the people with whom I lost contact.
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"untitled", 180 x 120 cm , 2011, oil on canvas. Private collection
"playground", 55 x 20 cm, 2011, oil on canvas. Private collection.
