- Szaweł Płóciennik
Eduardo Secci is pleased to announce Szawel Plociennik’s new solo exhibition at NOVO’s space in Florence (Piazza Carlo Goldoni 2). The exhibition opens on 24 November and will run until 15 January 2023.
Szawel’s aesthetic develops through paintings resulting from a series of layers given by different techniques. Acrylic, oil, spray and airbrush collide to create humanoids that tend in an extreme effort towards the deformation conceived by the artist himself. Inevitably influenced by his origins and from the Polish culture, Szawel is inspired by the mythology and fairy tales of his childhood memories, as well as when elaborating the titles of his works, always enigmatic, never explanatory. While the study of tradition acts as a sort of path-breaker prior to the development of the works, it is only as the elaboration of the works proceeds that the artist progressively realises and concretises the awareness and his specific intentions of the piece he is working on. Having completed the first preparatory sketch phase, often on very large canvases, Szawel goes on instinctively, letting himself be carried away not only by his emotions but also by the result that he progressively obtains by painting and mixing different techniques. Asexual, immersed in poetry and myths, the subjects represented are the reincarnation of his desires, traumas, dreams and personal catastrophes, they are creatures that are born with more or less effort, and the context in which the artist is involved collaborates to create new landscapes and backgrounds.
Eduardo Secci is pleased to announce Szawel Plociennik’s new solo exhibition at NOVO’s space in Florence (Piazza Carlo Goldoni 2). The exhibition opens on 24 November and will run until 15 January 2023.
Szawel’s aesthetic develops through paintings resulting from a series of layers given by different techniques. Acrylic, oil, spray and airbrush collide to create humanoids that tend in an extreme effort towards the deformation conceived by the artist himself. Inevitably influenced by his origins and from the Polish culture, Szawel is inspired by the mythology and fairy tales of his childhood memories, as well as when elaborating the titles of his works, always enigmatic, never explanatory. While the study of tradition acts as a sort of path-breaker prior to the development of the works, it is only as the elaboration of the works proceeds that the artist progressively realises and concretises the awareness and his specific intentions of the piece he is working on. Having completed the first preparatory sketch phase, often on very large canvases, Szawel goes on instinctively, letting himself be carried away not only by his emotions but also by the result that he progressively obtains by painting and mixing different techniques. Asexual, immersed in poetry and myths, the subjects represented are the reincarnation of his desires, traumas, dreams and personal catastrophes, they are creatures that are born with more or less effort, and the context in which the artist is involved collaborates to create new landscapes and backgrounds.
Szaweł Płóciennik, Persona Wink, 2022Acrylic on canvas
160 x 120 cm
63 x 47 1/4 in
Szaweł Płóciennik, First Snow, 2022Acrylic on canvas
80 x 80 cm
31 1/2 x 31 1/2 in
Szaweł Płóciennik, The Troop, 2022Acrylic and oil on canvas
182 x 152 cm
71 5/8 x 59 7/8 in
Szaweł Płóciennik, Night Prayer, 2022Relief
50 x 50 cm
19 3/4 x 19 3/4 in
Szaweł Płóciennik, Cigarette after…, 2022Acrylic and oil on canvas
80 x 80 cm
31 1/2 x 31 1/2 in
Szaweł Płóciennik, Rybak, 2022Acrylic on canvas
80 x 80 cm
31 1/2 x 31 1/2 in
Szaweł Płóciennik
Paweł Szaweł Płóciennik (born 1987) graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Diploma in Painting in Professor Jarosław Modzelewski’s Study, he completed a secondary degree course in Dr. Jan Mioduszewski’s Study, 2019). Płóciennik is author of graphic novels, painter and performer. His paintings speak of interiority, of that someone who resides in our depths and who often does not appear to us in such a way as to be noticed, the role that the artist sets himself is to represent him. Human figures appear in his paintings. Deformation helps to give the characters an individuality, to define their identity. “ My man is a mystery. Behind him there are small matters and great feelings that we can feel together as an artist and a spectator “ . The titles he give to the paintings refer to Slavic mythology, the numbers and mathematical actions appearing in the titles are a game of rendering with the help of the image composition code. Touch – perhaps the fullest expression of the fascination contained in his paintings. Many other things are revealed around touch, such as: intimacy, care, pain, the reality of existence, love. “ Perhaps touch is something that holds us most firmly in reality. Perhaps reality is what I’m most afraid of to lose “. Among his solo shows: The Cabinet Los Angeles (2022), Art Salon Contemporary, Budapest, Hungary (2021), Piquetures of religious Feelings, Promocyjna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2021), Heterror, Gorzów Wielkopolski Art Exhibition Centre, Poland (2021), HWDPięknu [A.C and BEAUTY.A.B.], Sinfonia Varsovia, Warsaw, Poland (2019), White Flower, Trince City Gallery, Trince, Czech Republic (2019), Wihajster Freiheit Swallow, Academy Lounge Gallery, Warsaw-Berlin, Poland-Germany, (2018), Out of Love of Sin, Wystawa Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2017), Painted Havirov, Radost Gallery, Havirov, Czech Republic (2016).
Szaweł Płóciennik
Paweł Szaweł Płóciennik (born 1987) graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (Diploma in Painting in Professor Jarosław Modzelewski’s Study, he completed a secondary degree course in Dr. Jan Mioduszewski’s Study, 2019). Płóciennik is author of graphic novels, painter and performer. His paintings speak of interiority, of that someone who resides in our depths and who often does not appear to us in such a way as to be noticed, the role that the artist sets himself is to represent him. Human figures appear in his paintings. Deformation helps to give the characters an individuality, to define their identity. “ My man is a mystery. Behind him there are small matters and great feelings that we can feel together as an artist and a spectator “ . The titles he give to the paintings refer to Slavic mythology, the numbers and mathematical actions appearing in the titles are a game of rendering with the help of the image composition code. Touch – perhaps the fullest expression of the fascination contained in his paintings. Many other things are revealed around touch, such as: intimacy, care, pain, the reality of existence, love. “ Perhaps touch is something that holds us most firmly in reality. Perhaps reality is what I’m most afraid of to lose “. Among his solo shows: The Cabinet Los Angeles (2022), Art Salon Contemporary, Budapest, Hungary (2021), Piquetures of religious Feelings, Promocyjna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2021), Heterror, Gorzów Wielkopolski Art Exhibition Centre, Poland (2021), HWDPięknu [A.C and BEAUTY.A.B.], Sinfonia Varsovia, Warsaw, Poland (2019), White Flower, Trince City Gallery, Trince, Czech Republic (2019), Wihajster Freiheit Swallow, Academy Lounge Gallery, Warsaw-Berlin, Poland-Germany, (2018), Out of Love of Sin, Wystawa Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2017), Painted Havirov, Radost Gallery, Havirov, Czech Republic (2016).
- Claire Fontaine
