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City - Residential Quarter - Studio - Apartment is the latest project by the young painter Wojciech Gilewicz, which is on display in the Laboratorium Gallery of the Center for Contemporary Art (CSW) through September 2 2001.
A student of Leon Tarasiewicz, Gilewicz tests the nature of visual perception, relations between painting and photography, visible and presented reality. The present project is the second version of his work City - Residential Quarter - Studio - Apartment shown in Saska Kępa; this version is adapted to the conditions in the Laboratorium Gallery. "This is an attempt at creating a space in which the places where I live, work and relax intermingle, and all changes and mutual relations observed in them expand the context of the entire project," said the artist.
By using illusionist oil paintings and photographs that compliment them, the artist has depicted his city, residential quarter, studio and apartment. The paintings present a block of flats in Warsaw's Saska Kępa and the sky above, while the photographs show the kitchen, a room, a view from the window, paintings displayed at the exhibition, the artist in bed after waking up and at work. The opening point is the cityscape as seen from the artist's apartment at the ninth floor. Then, the view stretches beyond the window frame, it moves to the interior of the studio, to a wall where a painting is being created, and then to the rest of the apartment, a second large painting, and then back to the view from the window. Small photos pasted on the paintings make a coherent whole, even though they somewhat disturb the perspective in the pictures.
In a simple way, the work of Gilewicz displays the truth of human perception. It teaches that our perception of a broad panorama consists of a number of glances at different angles, and visual observation of even a static environment is far more dynamic than simple painting or photography.
