ARTIST PROFILE

Bartosz Kokosinski

  • Poland (b. 1984 in Siewierz)
  • Currently in Warsaw, Poland.
  • Education: 2004-2009 Student of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, painting faculty, prof. Andrzej Bednarczyk atelier, Grzegorz Sztwiertnia and Zbigniew Sałaj atelier. Lives and works in Warsaw.

REPRESENTATION

Painting devouring a religious theme, 2012, own technique, 155 x 140 x 47 cm

Painting devouring a religious theme, 2012, own technique, 155 x 140 x 47 cm

  • 2012
  • Iron, Wood, Found Objects
  • collection of devotional, liturgical vessels and other subjects related to Catholic rites
  • 155 x 140 x 47 cm
  • Painting devouring Robert Kusmirowski (detail) - thumbnail Painting devouring Robert Kusmirowski - thumbnail Painting devouring landscape - thumbnail Painting devouring a religious theme, 2012, own technique, 155 x 140 x 47 cm - thumbnail Painting devouring a vanitas theme - thumbnail Painting devouring battle scene - thumbnail

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    Paintings devouring reality | 2011 - 2014

History has shown that art can absorb anything. Perhaps so can history of art. It seems that the works of Bartosz Kokosiński have emerged from this rule, some kind of chaotic reality, which cannot be put in order and clear form. Nonetheless, it needs to obey its rules. As a result of the forces clashing with each other we receive paintings transcending into sculptures or installations. His works may be called borderline also due to their potential to transmutate, transform every-day objects into art. This process does not mean prolonging their life, however, but rather reporting their expiry. The remaining works are formed from the “remains of the symbolic” and the stories behind them are quite often stories of decomposition. The fragments of the world that are saved from destruction are collected and reinterpreted by placing them inside the frame. The boarder of the painting is not easily defined. The author blurs it intentionally in order to widen the battlefield for the space beyond the canvas. This way the painting often changes into a structure that dominates the space. It might be said ironically that the gesture of uncontrollable appropriation of the world causes the art, which is unable to convey all that matters, to throw it physically out of the frames of the presentation. text: Szymon Maliborski