Jan Zwolicki

Excitement at the LAUDA FabrikGalerie

01.02.2006 - 31.03.2006

The Polish artist Jan Zwolicki was born in Swiecie on the Vistula in 1967 and studied at the Lyzeum der Bildenden Kunst in Bydgoszcy from 1982 to 1987. Since 1989 he lives and works as a freelance artist in Bzowo near Danzig. In 1992, Jan Zwolicki already managed to build up contacts to the Miltenberger art scene which were intensified by many exhibitions at the Miltenberger area in the following years. Zwolicki has shown his work at Lauda before. He paints his subjects in a virtually explosive design of colour and shape. His interpretations range from loving irony to exposing satire to dynamic movement. The latest exhibited paintings by Jan Zwolicki have a peculiar atmosphere. They are full of vibrating tension. The life in them is lascivious and aggressive at the same time. The people in his pictures stand alone even when they appear in groups. Their colours glow, but they hardly communicate with each other. The luminescent hues of red, orange, turquoise, yellow and blues are set fluently. They resolve the touching dissonances in movement and seem to be spotlighted: the individual stages himself against a diffuse background. This is particularly obvious in the oil painting "Family" which shows three people. A "mountaineer" braces himself against invisibly drawing outside forces. He holds on with all his might, so that the diagonal exertion creates a counter-axis which works with the colours to evoke the red-hot, life-threatening situation. Again and again, the painter looks for this conflict in his motifs, the inexplicable, which evaporates in "Secret" and which makes the man fail to make contact with the two passers-by in the scene "Street". Art lovers can still see the electrifying oil paintings by Jan Zwolicki at the LAUDA FabrikGalerie during business hours until the end of March 2006. Our photo shows the painter Jan Zwolicki with his painting bearing the working title "Town Bus". The people represented in this scene are standing alone although they appear in a group. Their colours glow but they hardly communicate with each other.

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