INFINITY
painting | video
04.02 – 26.02.2010

opening: thursday, february 4, 6 p.m.

Many, if not all artists spend their whole lives pursuing a single theme. They produce an endless sequence of approximations in the form of novels, musical scores, poems, or paintings.

“Infinity,” a show of Wojciech Gilewicz’s work at Entropia Gallery, reveals the artist’s painting in progress.

Process is always present in Gilewicz’s painting, either as the subject of representation, as a creative method, or as a mode of the painting’s existence which tends toward disappearance and blending with the environment. Sometimes, his paintings are the outcome of technological activities of various professions. At other times, as in his latest project for Entropia, they are installed in urban spaces, exposed to the weather and not-so-predictable human intervention, and remain there for months. In many cases film footage is the only trace of their existence, with video documentation often forming an integral part of the artist’s multi-phase painting projects.

In “Infinity,” the creative process is interrupted. The paintings, cut from it like frames from a film, can be looked at as transitional, as-yet-unfinished forms.

Gilewicz began work on several of the exhibited paintings while on a grant in the U.S. He shifts his gaze from the abstract urban textures to billboards and advertisements, an area of representation in which he discovers traces of destruction. He represents the already represented while documenting the intervention of chance. Several other paintings are autonomous abstract compositions which seem to be accumulations of afterimages of colorful chaos in constant flux and change.

A.J.