| ESK: Na przełomie czerwca i lipca odbyła się w Melbourne w Catherine Asquith Gallery wspólna wystawa artystów malarzy rodem ze Szczecina, otwarta przez Ambasadora RP Andrzeja Jaroszyńskiego.Wystawy już nie ma, ale niechaj pozostanie po niej miły ślad. Po długich wojażach nadrabiam redakcyjne zaległości; jako ex-Szczecinianka czuję się w obowiązku opublikować Press Release, jaki wydano z okazji wystawy Jarka Wójcika i Przemysława Cerebieża-Tarabickiego.
Press Release. Joint exhibition of two Polish artists; one, an Australian-residing artist, the other, a
Polish-residing artist.
To be opened by His Excellency, Mr Andrzej Jaroszyński, Ambassador of th Republic of Poland, on Saturday 27th June 2009 @ 2pm.
“Landscape, not forgotten”, is as much the evocative title of this joint exhibition by Jarek Wojcik
and Przemysław Cerebież-Tarabicki, as it is a truism; Wojcik and Cerebież-Tarabicki, both born
in Szczecin, Poland, having experienced a similar childhood environment, and having shared
similar visual memories, recall the landscape of their youth, albeit from totally different, literal
perspectives.
A resident of Australia for the past 20 years,Wojcik’s creative reimagining of place and
experience traverses continents; the work of Cerebież-Tarabicki is a reflection of his immediate
environment. And yet ironically, this ‘tyranny of distance’ so endemic to Australian-based
artists, is the very concept which links both Wojcik and Cerebież-Tarabicki; inherent to both
artists’ work is something of ‘a journey of the mind’, memories of a past, articulation of familiar
sights, sounds, colours and scents, all redolent of the landscape of their conjoined youth.
As Wojcik has stated:
“Art is a journey, and for me every work is the beginning of that journey. I’m visiting places
which are not necessarily actual locations or even physical sites. They can be places within one’s
self. This is a mental landscape, part of my response to what is around me through the study of
history. Every object, every destination initiates a process of conversation with reality and
produces a fascinating collection of stories, messages and experiences.
Similarly, multi-layered narratives inhabit their respective paintings. The creative processes of
each artist, pave the way for a particularly poetic approach to painting. In some respects therefore
such an artistic collaboration was inevitable perhaps, for these two artists, with so much in
common.
But there do exist differences: interestingly, the iconography of Cerebież-Tarabicki denotes an
especially personal note: the stylized face, derivative of a self-portrait and which permeates many
of his works, acts as both a compositional anchor and a ‘gesticulation’. By inserting oneself into
a work, the ‘face of the artist’ or the ‘artist’s intention’ becomes so much more present. Wojcik is
more reserved: his iconography resides in less animate objects such as the proliferation of musical
instruments, harnessed by a wry wit.
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