Paweł Książek at the Polish Institute Berlin

"Paweł Książek’s art, although it comprises almost exclusively paintings, can be described as inter-media art, and the painter as an interdisciplinary artist. Such a definition is possible because in the process of creation, Ksiazek makes use of photography, films – both professional and amateur, music, found objects and sculptural-models which he often makes by himself before he starts working on a painting. In the pictures that result from this specific working process, the icons of high and low culture, the old and the contemporary, well known motifs from modernist painting and photographs found by the artist are mixed." (Wojciech Szymanski)

Opening: Thursday, December 6, 2012, 7 pm

Exhibition: December 7, 2012 – February 8, 2013

Location: Polish Institute Berlin

KRZYSZTOF ZIELINSKI- Briesen

Courtesy of the artist and ZAK BRANICKA

Upcoming exhibition: KRZYSZTOF ZIELIŃSKI- Briesen
Opening: Friday, September 10th, 2010, 6-9 pm

Paweł Książek

30/04/2010 - 05/06/2010

Poelzig VS. Poelzig

Opening: April 30, 2010, 4-8pm

GALLERY WEEKEND BERLIN

As part of Gallery Weekend, gallery ŻAK | BRANICKA takes great pleasure in presenting Paweł Książek’s Poelzig VS. Poelzig. This is the second exhibition of the artist’s work, following Silent Utopia at Art Basel Statements 2009, and is based on ideas connecting cinema produced during the inter war years and modernist architecture.

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Paweł Książek is one of the most interesting contemporary Polish painters. His interests lie in the roots of modernism. On the basis of archival photographs and film, Książek finds common motifs for seemingly disparate themes, which he in turn connects in a collage-like-way on canvas.

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