Karol Kochanowski
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW creative these days doesn’ t mean sticking to one medium for the rest of your life. I have gained confidence I needed to start a new piece. Now, it doesn’ t matter where I am and what facilities are available, if I feel like, I pick a brush, a musical instrument, digital software or bunch of sticks in the park and create. No matter what’ s the process and in what form is the outcome, it’ s another add on to my personal creative development. You can read all these practices from my abstract paintings, which are like maps of my interweaving so far experiences.
After I moved to UK and joined a course at the university, I have realized how lucky I was. Before that, I couldn’ t even dream to become a professional artist. I don’ t come from a creative family. Since my childhood my drawing skills were always perceived as a talent but none ever thought I could do something with it, as by that time there was no such an occupation as a visual artist where I come from. After high school I went to Technical University to start Urban Architecture course, I thought the only way to utilize my imagination and drawing skills. Luckily I was brave enough teenager to realize I was wasting my time and parent’ s money, so I have left the course, moved to UK and literally started new life.
I come from a background where contemporary art was out of sight, lack of it in mass media or even galleries. My art education back home included classical with maybe early XX century art. So I grown up by looking at Renaissance masters rather than Doig or Richter and that’ s where my fascinations to traditional painting come from. Many of my works have this nostalgic touch, natural pigments, deep dark backgrounds remind of works of Caravaggio or Goya filtered through contemporary perception of the medium.
Your works reveal an incessant search of an organic symbiosis between a successful attempt to capture elusive features of reality and a tendency towards self-reflection. The results convey together a coherent sense of unity, that rejects any conventional classification. Before starting to elaborate about your production, we would suggest to our readers to visit http:// karolkochanowski. com in order to get a synoptic view of your multifaceted artistic production. Your pieces communicate a successful attempt to transform tension to harmony and what has at once captured our attention it ' s their dynamic and autonomous aesthetics: are your works painted gesturally, instinctively? Or do you methodically transpose geometric schemes from paper to canvas?
Back at the university I have been taught to leave all my ideas, sketches behind when starting a new work. With nothing in my head but just complete trust to my subconsciousness my so far surreal, illustrative paintings began to lose their representative form to become