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The exhibition showcases the latest series of paintings by Jaros\u0142aw Flici\u0144ski, completed over the past year in his studio in Zawada, near Na\u0142\u0119cz\u00f3w. Although created in 2024, some of the canvases have a longer history\u2014they are the result of successive layers applied to works begun during the artist\u2019s earlier residencies in Esteval and Brejo, Portugal. Like his previous series, this one is deeply tied to the place in which the artist worked\u2014the atmosphere of the studio, the light, and that which is felt but unseen.<\/span><\/p>\n What guides the artist in his creative process? Intuition or reason? A whim of the moment or a carefully thought-out plan? Jaros\u0142aw Flici\u0144ski invites us into his world, where answers to these questions intertwine into a complex knot of emotions, gestures, and decisions. His paintings are not illustrations of any theory nor attempts to recreate reality\u2014<\/em>they are traces of a process that is as fascinating as the work itself. As the artist says, They came to life slowly, in their own time throughout the summer, while my thoughts flowed on a more or less regular course alongside, and things just happened. <\/i>Sometimes it took many months before the moment arrived\u2014the moment of the one final touch<\/i>\u2014that completed the whole.<\/span><\/p>\n Flici\u0144ski admits that during the process, the painting guides him, but ultimately it is the artist who decides when the work is finished, giving it the full context in which it is meant to exist. It is he who sets the next blank canvas before himself. Flici\u0144ski\u2019s art is a constant balance between the conscious and the unconscious, between what is intended and what simply happens.<\/span><\/p>\n Sonia Witak<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This summer, an old friend of mine\u2014a painter\u2014visited my studio and immediately turned all my paintings sideways, positioning them horizontally. He said, \u201aLook, landscapes\u2019 (he\u2019s painted landscapes his entire life). What could I do? I just smiled. Everyone sees what they want to see. After he left, I returned to the studio and slowly set them all back upright. A painting, when horizontal, becomes a view to the \u201aoutside\u2019; when vertical, it transforms back into a portrait, an image \u201ainward,\u2019 and that\u2019s how I always position them\u2014quite naturally.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Jaros\u0142aw Flici\u0144ski<\/span><\/p>\n <\/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-7202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wystawy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202","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=7202"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7248,"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7202\/revisions\/7248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriamonopol.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}