Initially, the artist used linear forms intuitively, automatically, as it were, outside of consciousness. Over time, he began to notice the presence of lines in his work and submitted to them with full premeditation. Analyzing his actions, one can see that the line guides him more than he guides it – it introduces order, dynamizes forms, and his art takes on an increasingly distinct direction.

The artist's struggles with the line are marked by curiosity and experiment. As part of his doctorate, he faces a formal problem, exposes himself to a test of collision with the spatiality of the line, fighting with its matter and idea. Playing with form and content, he sets himself successive tasks and asks successive riddles. Those that he managed to solve are presented in this exhibition. He confronts the line understood as structure, matter, form, and finally as dynamics. He analyzes it insightfully as a drawing space, continuity, or space-time. He leans over the line that builds relations of forms; over the structure of the line that creates a plane and then the form of the object. He contrasts his linear structures with the organic shapes of nature. He uses lines to give direction to found objects used in his works.

Each of the sculptures presented here has its own meaning in this process, it is a reaction to the question posed by the artist, the result of analysis, the effect of tested solutions and the improvement of adopted methods. One completed task led to another, and after each answer developed the question followed: what next?

The development of all previous activities is the kinetic sculpture that crowns the exhibition – the culmination of the research process, an attempt to close the stage of searching. The inspiration from space visible in the object announces that it may be another step into the unknown, an opening to a new infinity of tasks and solutions waiting further.

Paulina Mazurek

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