justyna tomczak / 2014 /
Melancholy in four walls.
Paweł Kwiatkowski’s painting is unusually suggestive. Man is in the centre of his artistic interests. In carefully arranged apartment spaces there appear portrayals of people that avoid confrontation with viewers. They are rather focused on themselves. They express emotions that are outside rational limits. They are characterized by attitude of withdrawal. The artist intentionally draws attention to gestures of individuals he paints. Frequently, their psychic condition is reflected by accentuated body posture.
Kwiatkowski’s paintings are colourful. Vivid shades of red, orange, pink- emit extraordinary atmosphere. The artist, using distinct colours, achieved interesting emotional tension. The colour, however, does not dominate over subject matter of presentations. It rather forms one whole with the painting’s theme. A particular example of this type of composition is a series of paintings entitled The Protagonist referring to human feelings. It consists of works portraying individuals that alienate themselves form reality. Claustrophobic atmosphere of presentations is created by enclosed rooms with anonymous men. The problem of solitude is pushed aside into private space. The drama of an individual takes place here. Additional expression of presentations is achieved by application of flat patches of intensive colour that performs metaphoric function.
The source of Kwiatkowski’s painting is in reflexive approach to surrounding reality. Emotions resulting from this experience are subject to the painter’s artistic interpretation, intended to obtain intensified expression by means of introduction to composition of presentation of intensive colours. Vivid colours which this young artist applies to his atmospheric painting, which, by the way, might refer us to the works of Andrzej Wróblewski, is a proof of freshness of his view of the problem of individual’s loneliness in the crowd.
Melancholia w czterech ścianach
Malarstwo Pawła Kwiatkowskiego jest niezwykle sugestywne. W centrum jego artystycznych zainteresowań znajduje się człowiek. W skrupulatnie zaaranżowanych przestrzeniach mieszkań pojawiają się wizerunki postaci, które unikają konfrontacji z widzem. Skupione są raczej na sobie. Wyrażają emocje, będące poza racjonalnymi ramami. Charakteryzuje je postawa wycofania. Artysta świadomie zwraca uwagę na gesty malowanych przez siebie jednostek. Często ich stan psychiczny, oddaje podkreślony układ ciała.