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GRzEGORz GREG GIERLOWSkI
Lives and works in Lodz, Poland
SEARCH THE ARTIST ONLINE www.artinterior.com.pl/gg.htm
“Light coming through an artwork. There are two sides or surfaces to be visitors alike love to have him at various international art-festivals (twice
worked on, even more when you join two or more translucent artworks London, Berlin and qualification for vI Florence Biennale 2007), as well as
together like a sandwich to get more depth. Fascination and obsession in the press and Tv. Practical art-lovers again tend to have modern, useful
of greg gierlowski, subject of his never ending explorations that is very applied-arts’ objects around them everyday, in their living spaces. Passing
visible in his backlit works and that led him to invent patent-pending his experiences to others shows best in his educational publications and
translucent arts display method called BAP (Backlit Art Picture) that frees teachings. Often relations with the music appear in his visual arts for he
translucencies from dependence on day light. Modernized approach with traveled the world over for decades, working simultaneously as a pro
roots in traditions of old Asian silk paintings or later glass painting but done musician, accumulating sounds and images everywhere and transposing
by rather painting with the glass than on the glass, as Tiffany used to say. them into each other. See his art in Translucent Arts gallery – galeria
It’s clearly seen that gierlowski practiced in late ’70 under one of original witrazu in Lodz -Teofilow. Poland…” (Excerpts)
Tiffany’s students and collaborators in Chicago. To astounding visual effects, Teofilow, “gazeta wyborcza” June 2004
unusual, fortified moods his art is able to create. No wonder curators and
GeNesIs, 2003 gLASS / BACkLIgHT IN BAP 37x24 IN. / 70x62 CM.
UNrest at DaWN, 2003 gLASS / BACkLIgHT IN BAP 24x28 IN. / 63x78 CM. mUsIC - seLF-POrtraIt, 2002 gLASS / BACkLIgHT IN BAP 23x27 IN. / 60x70 CM.
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