Asking price 1000
Estimate 1500 - 1600
Technique own, canvas; 215 x 72 cm
Signed: Piotr Kowalski / from the series "Passing Images" / title: "Kasprzaka Street in Poznań on 08.08.2003 from 10.04 - 14.00" / tech. Traces of tires of cars passing down Kasprzaka Street in Poznan on August 8, 2003 between 10.04 a.m. and 2.00 p.m. on white primed cotton canvas / format 205 x 60 or 215 x 72 / fragment of a larger whole / stamp: by Piotr Kowalski
Piotr KOWALSKI
b. 1951 Mieszkow
In 1978 he graduated from the Faculty of Painting, Graphics and Sculpture of the Poznan State Higher School of Fine Arts. He received his diploma in the atelier of S. Teisseyre. He is a professor at the Painting Department of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Poznan and at the Design Department of the Koszalin University of Technology. He quickly created his own style, painting original installations in which he covered surrounding objects with paint squeezed directly from a tube. In his paintings, he also transferred motifs from the works of the great masters and added objects that he incorporated into his works. Sometimes he exposes the stretchers with his paintings to rain, sun and wind, from which abstract compositions are later created. His work is a perverse dialogue with the tradition of craftsmanship and the mimetic function of art. The artist paints, or rather, leaves traces of matter in the picture space, allowing them to transform naturally. In the series Transient, Passing and Passing Paintings, he places frames in random places in urban space exposing it to factors such as dirt, the wheels of cars, the feet of passersby or vandalism, and thus creates a material image of the city.
