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A vast view seen from the window on the nineth floor is here the starting point. But our eye can see more than that, it embraces also the inside of the studio, a wall with the picture being painted on it, then the apartment background, another big-size picture only to return to the view from the window. All these elements combine to form the horizon of Wojciech Gilewicz's observation. The pictures show a city reality while becoming themselves part of it. A painting and photographic combination of the stated objects make the scenery.
Wojciech Gilewicz brings together in this work entitled City - Neighborhood - Studio - Apartment a convincing panorama with two kinds of reality (the seen and presented one) and with two ways of presentation (that of painting and photography). The small photos stuck into the big picture form a surprisingly consistent and harmonious whole, despite a certain upsetting of the perspective and the colour. This makes us realize that our perception of a vast panorama is made up in fact of a variety of optics. Our perception of even a static surroundings in our daily experience is more dynamic than the pure photography or pure painting. Gilewicz demonstrates this perception in a natural way, kind to the eyes and arousing feelings.
The show at the Laboratorium Gallery is the second version adapted to the particular space of this work.
The previous brief show (1-3 July) was held in the Saska Kępa district in Warsaw in the direct neighborhood of the things shown in the pictures.
Gilewicz is very consistent in demonstrating the relationship between painting and photography, between the visual picture or reality and reality itself. Using artistic resources he investigates the complex nature of perception while trying to capture the sensual beauty. Grzegorz Borkowski
City - Neighborhood - Studio - Apartment, two pictures 360 x 240 cm, and five hundred photos - the whole 11 m at the basis is a painting - photo work trying to capture the place I live and work all the changes going on in it and with the relations between the particular items.
W.G.
