Karol Kochanowski
LandE scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
Your pieces often reject an explicit explanatory strategy: they seem to be the tip of the iceberg of what you are really attempting to communicate. How does representation and a tendency towards abstraction on a semantic level find their balance in your work?
I have described before my semi improvised creative process I developed. I don’ t have a full control on how my work visually will reflect the message behind it. It is almost impossible to fully read my intentions from the image I produce. My paintings are clearly emotional reflections of my thought, feelings, something that is hard to put in to right words and there is no space for straightforward message on the actual picture. My work has both ways purpose: it send either visual or ideological message to the viewer or brings me recipient’ s interpretation, or both; one and the other are the same important.
Your works provide the viewers with an intense, immersive experience: moreover, elements from environment and reminders to the notion of landscape are particularly recurrent in your imagery and they never plays the role of a mere background. Do you see a definite relationship between environment and your work?
The form my recent works appear, their landscape like character is the follow up of constant changes end experiences I have gained in my creative practice as well as personal life. Through my academic years I have experienced fluent transformation from figurative surreal painter to