Tomasz Kowalski

Antwerp

Tim Van Laere Gallery currently presents In Routine Investigation – an exhibition showcasing the most recent paintings, drawings and collages of Polish artist, Tomasz Kowalski.

Part of the surprising charm of Tomasz Kowalski’s work is his idiosyncratic iconography. Through his personal imagination, everyday life experience morph into tragicomic stories, lending his imagery an enigmatic and psychedelic quality. Approaching his work as the personal diary of a paranoid person (like in Roman Polanski’s „The Tenant“) can be a key to fully grasp it. It refers to a childlike sensitivity, to lose yourself in the paranoia of imaginations or hallucinatory visions. Kowalski compulsively works on the same unsettling subjects (illness, cleansing), theatre like scenes containing the same characters and requisites (wardrobe with ethereal clothes), examining iconic representations of objects and situations and its relation to real life.

Tim Van Laere Gallery

October 25th – December 1st, 2012
Verlatstraat 25
2000 Antwerp
Belgium

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