My Work

Here are my studies/visual research which I present for the record-purpose mainly. Contact me on kaskon@gmail.com should you have any questions/opinions.

Recent Work – Third Year of study (2008/2009)

On this Work (Artist’s Statement)

What do we know about the universe and how do we know it? How does nature maintain its order and beauty being a maze of random matter and forces? What is the origin of life and what is its essence?

This work bridges my theoretical interests in science and philosophy with the practical challenge of the visual studies. The paintings have evolved in a long process of a natural selection by obliterating ‘weaker’ expressions in order to form integrated entities.
These ‘survivors’ are endowed with a definite, yet fragile presence of organic creatures.

Structured complexity and ordered randomness of nature becomes an epitome of the creative process. Art is asked to take a part in the universal quest to address the questions, which everything starts with…

Creature (Ego), oil/mixed media on board

Creature (Ego),  details

Creature (Albus), oil/mixed media on canvas

Creature (Albus), details

Creature (Silva phallum), acrylic/oil/mixed media on paper

Creature (Digitus), acrylic/oil/mixed media on paper

More images: My Work – May 2009

Why do I paint? (Artist’s Statement)

Painting is the Theory of Everything

It links all elements and forces

Creating Cosmos out of Chaos

And the Real out of a Dream…

Paintings are living organisms

They deny and complete each other

And themselves within

Struggling for a structure and survival…

The Birth of an Idea, 2009, acrylic and oil on canvas, 92 x 60,5 cm (35,5 x 23,5 “)

The Knot; 2009;  acrylic, oil and mixed media on canvas, 161 x 110,5 cm (63,5 x 43″)

The Knot (detail); 2009;  acrylic, oil and mixed media on canvas

Artist’s Statement:

Being here. Going there. The Lyrical and the Banal. Chaos and Cosmos. The Nonsense and the Logic. Chasing the Sublime, facing the Ridiculous. The boundaries to be respected and the boundaries to be challenged.

My work expresses the dynamics of my inner life which  evolves in the liminal spaces and takes a form of the stream-of-consciousness. The propositions presented should be seen as a preliminary effort and a work in progress.

Evolution of the Concept:

This concept has developed out of my curiosity. I was interested in the nature of the humanness, what are the boundaries (if any) of being/existing as a human being.This stage was called “the metaphysics of presence” since it was supposed to address the ontology of the human presence in itself. I focused on the human face – the self-portrait the human race has been developing and modifying through ages.

The “chaos” phase came when I started to record the fact of ‘being alive here and now’. I had employed the brain-storming method of collecting and displaying data/materials found on my way without any particular aesthetic or/and logical concern. At that time my work shifted from the ontological towards the phenomenological approach – to an exploration of an experience of life (rather than the existence in itself). In order to place my personal space within the more universal territory I was trying to adopt the sublime concept. Yet, my response to the traditional understanding of the idea was that of a questioning and a rejection.

Finally, the intuition of the ‘liminal spaces’ emerged. My work has started to research the paradoxes, oxymorons and antitheses  putting an emphasis on the co-existence and inter-dependence of the contrastive forces and elements.

Media/techniques used: oil on canvas, oil on a wall, oil on board, drawing, collage, assemblage.

To see more photos/descriptions – katarzynaskonieczna

Recent Work – Second Year of study (2007/08)

The end of the year presentation

Artistic Statement:

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.

John Milton Paradise Lost (I, 254-255)

Discovering art has proved to be a sort of the tour de l’esprit – a fascinating yet highly demanding journey to and through an artist’s mind.
My work is a formal and substantial analysis of what resonates with universal, timeless meanings and passions.
The paintings presented reflect on a notion of the Golden Age, which I understand as a particularly blissful state of one’s spirit. This Paradise or Tir-na-nOg exists through memory and imagination as a specific and usually unforgettably uncanny time, space and energy.
My work is meant to encourage a pensive, introspective response from my viewers, who are invited to visit their own Elysian Fields. Thank you.

Strawberry Fields I, Oil on canvas, 125×98 cm

Strawberry Fields II, Oil on canvas, 124×96 cm

Strawberry Fields II, (fragment)

Strawberry Fields III, Oil on canvas, 89×66 cm

Strawberry Fields IV, Oil on canvas, 64×49cm

Strawberry Fields V, Oil on canvas, 65×47 cm

Strawberry Fields VI, Oil on canvas, 89×96 cm

Strawberry Fields VI, (fragment)

Untitled from the “Living Space” series.

Oil on paper

Oil on paper

Oil on paper

Oil, mixed media on paper

Comments on blue.

A set/mini-installation for an animation, mixed-media

Older work – Studies from the first year (2006/07

1. Dimensional works based on an interpretation of a human figure and human condition.

Untitled, wire, glass, clay, mixed media

Twins, paper, pencils, fabric

2. Works on paper.

Untitled, photogram, inks, bleach

Mother and Child, mixed media, oils

Galactic, print (1/2)

And here is a video featuring the whole first year: