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ANTONI KOwALsKI
Lives and works in katowice poland
 www.antonikowalski.art.pl
artist contact
 artoni@interia.pl
This art cannot be categorized into any of the modern trends, though matter in the form of thin layers growing over one another gradually.
critics most often mention surrealism. In fact, Kowalski’s pictures seem The grains in wood grow in this way, but these structures resemble
to be made of dreams, divested of all reality. Although the human figure fungi, moss and lichen. They might also resemble constructions spun of
has been eliminated, the compositions give impressions of human cobwebs, tissue paper or silk. It is not important where our associations
experience. However, it is very difficult to find their equivalent in the are called up from, though. It is the variety of interpretations that
world of nature. One could think of some kind of unknown organic fascinates and attracts to recur contacts with them.
MONIKA MAŁKOWSKA -Rzeczpospolita 1997

1.PrAYer AFTer C. MOnTeVerdI (FOr MOTHer), 2002 oiL/seLF tecHniqUe 48x82 in. /122x210 cm. 2.PrAYer FOr JOHn PAUL II, 2004 oiL 46x35 in. TRENDS
/117x90,5 cm. 3.PrAYer FOr ZdZIsŁAW BeKsInsKI,2005 oiL 48x54 in. /122x138 cm. 4.MedITATIOn In THe dArKness III, 2005 oiL 27x40 in. /70x100
cm. 5.PrAYer FOr JerZY dUdA grACZ, 2005 oiL /seLF tecHniqUe 48x60 in. /122x150 cm. 6. MedITATIOn In CIrCLe V, 2004 oiL 40x27 in. /100x70 cm. 7.
MedITATIOn FrOM CHICAgO, 2001 oiL/seLF tecHniqUe 48x30 in. /122x75 cm 8. PrAYer FOr eVerYBOdY III, 2005 oiL 35x45 in. /89x116 cm.. 9. PrAYer
FOr eVerYBOdY IV, 2005 oiL 38x51 in. /97x130 cm.