Rafal TopolewskiBorn in Poland. Lives in: Manchester
Manchester Metropolitan University
Human memory, manipulation on an image, deconstruction of idealised picture through memory and imagination, deformation of an information through new media, construct a discussion where lack of control in painting, in both areas, application of physical material on surface and initial decision of chosen image, are key points for my work, which became inconsistent in terms of image, scale, display. I try to explore possibilities of traditional medium in contemporary world through consistent inconsistency in solid structure, consciously changing the area of focus in my work. Inconsistency in my practice helps me to challenge interpretations of paint, to understand and explore image but what is the most important, it provides me a field for undefined debate.
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Work of art I would like to makeIf chosen as a New Sensation, I would like to create a series of painting which would question the status of contemporary image. I want to understand the role of an image and reaction for it of general audience, it will be a continuation/reflection of a work which I made for a degree show. The project "6.08" underlined the problem of graduates who need to confront the reality after art school. The "6.08" is an anxiety reaction, a desperate act to be a painter, where I created 156 paintings of images recognised as kitsch. Each image was created through the process of one hour. The whole project took me 4 weeks, 39 hours per week (week of full time job in England), which symbolise a whole month of work and creates in total 156 painting. Each painting was priced £6.08 (minimum wage in May/June 2012).
According to public reaction to my show, where small, cheap and tacky work captured more attention than more ambitious paintings, I will create small scale cliché images displayed with significant importance and juxtapose it with large scale more challenging images crowded in the corner. It would create manifest of logically reverse situation followed by public taste. |
My Artworks (6)
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