Tea Route<\/em> poem<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Still Life <\/i>is a presentation of works by Koji Kamoji and Jacek Sempoli\u0144ski. Although the artists knew each other in person and their works have already been displayed together at group exhibitions, this is the first time their creations have been juxtaposed as a duo, on the initiative of Koji Kamoji. Jacek Sempoli\u0144ski was an artist belonging to the \u201cArsenal 55\u201d generation, a painter and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Koji Kamoji is a Japanese artist who has lived in Poland since 1959 and has been associated with the Foksal Gallery since 1967. The circumstances of the debuts of both artists mark turning points in Polish art history. The exhibition Against War, Against Fascism<\/i> at the Arsenal was a manifestation of new forms of painting that reverberated with post-war traumas, and broke with the doctrine of socialist realism prevailing in art at the same time. The Foksal Gallery is the place of creating conceptual art, the first happenings and the processes of dematerialisation.<\/p>\n
The work of both artists, trained as painters, is devoted to exploring and developing an abstract visual language. Their artistic practice can be defined by the slogan: minimum expression, maximum emotion. Koji Kamoji\u2019s works are translations of nature, the elements, life and death into minimalist installations, spatial forms and reliefs. Jacek Sempoli\u0144ski\u2019s painting is based on the power and intensity of the painter\u2019s gesture, expressing pain and existential dilemmas.<\/p>\n
The Still Life exhibition presents the works by Koji Kamoji from the Air<\/em> and Still Life<\/em> series, created over the past two years. The selection of pictures by Jacek Sempoli\u0144ski has also been narrowed down mainly to those painted in the last years of the artist\u2019s life. In the late works of Kamoji and Sempoli\u0144ski, means of expression are reduced to the most sparing form possible: straight lines and placing pebbles in the right place (Kamoji), delicate brushstrokes, tiny hand gestures or squeezing paints straight out of tubes (Sempoli\u0144ski). The modes of artistic expression start to create a form of dialogue between the works on display, resounding like elaborate assumptions that have been underpinning the artists\u2019 work from the very beginning.<\/p>\nFranciszek Smor\u0119da<\/p>\n
The exhibition was realized in collaboration with the Jacek Sempoli\u0144ski Foundation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"class_list":["post-6207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wystawy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6207"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6827,"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions\/6827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}