Biography
Born in 1974, painter, architect, academic lecturer and art collector; member of the Union of Polish Artists. He studied at the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology. For his doctoral thesis, Pawel received a distinction from the Faculty Council of the Warsaw University of Technology and an award from the Minister of Infrastructure. His greatest passion is painting. He also engages in sculpture, photography, architectural design and the history of architecture. Pawel is primarily interested in the relationship between architecture and visual arts. In his paintings he explores optical illusions, the perception of colour and its effect on space.
creators about Paweł WĄSOWSKI
Key to the art of Paweł M. Wąsowski is the Bauhaus tradition in art and architecture with its laconic language and simple splits of form and field. In a sense, Wąsowski can be considered a 21st century-follower of geometric abstractionism. (…) The purpose of art is to stream and to talk, to inspire reflection in the artist and the viewership. This fundamental truth appears in Wąsowski’s work as homage to the square and colour. What is more, the artist goes even further and deeper. He weaves colours within the square in a manner so organic, contrasting and dynamic that he ends up creating specimens of opart, conjuring up a fleeting impression of a spinning motion and instilling the square with the properties of a levitating mandala.
MARIS CACKA,
Art Director
Rothko Museum
If you want, your eyes to be deceived, then Paweł Wąsowski does it masterfully. For long contemplation.
ANDRZEJ PĄGOWSKI
illustrator & graphic artist
A perfect technique even while being informed by the classics – Victor Vasarely or Julian Stańczak! These squares by Paweł Wąsowski float and move in space. His work has all the elements of good op-art. This is not an easy achievement. Chapeau bas!
MICHAŁ ZABOROWSKI
painter
I am impressed by this painting – a static composition and an equal number of squares on all sides imparts so much depth, undulation and mystery. (…) When nothing shines on it, the painting is like a cloudy day that holds back its charms and says: you didn’t deserve anything better today. Try harder and you will be rewarded…. but give it some light and it returns the favour by going wild… in op-art, and certainly in the paintings of Pawel Wąsowski, logic has made a pact with emotion. (…)
MARIUSZ SZCZYGIEŁ
writer
Paweł Wąsowski considers op-art the best medium for his artistic expression. He unites the potential of the world of colour and imagination with the precision of an engineer. He searches for the inner light in images and arranges colours into harmonious or contrasting chords. He achieves a fluency of technique, which has not erased the feeling that we are encountering the raw painting materials created by the artist.
STANISŁAW WYSOCKI
sculptor
At first glance, the work of Paweł Wąsowski seems close to op-art. After deeper analysis, there is much more – apart from the optical illusions and efficient use of the language of geometry, which play an important role in his work. In particular, his carefully considered solutions to the application of colour come to the fore. They seem to be an expression of a deep reflection on colour and its place in art, which refer to themes from the conceptualism movement.
dr AGATA CZEREMUSZKIN-CHRUT
painter
The works temples of this time thus introduce, already from the title, the last cycle of the artist’s works, characterized by a square format, a refined manual creation – as in the case of his entire pictorial work – and an extraordinary capacity to vary textures and chromatic gradations, based on a modularity established a priori as a design model, with extraordinary perceptual effects arising from the meeting between forms. Works that are templates: as the title suggests, followed by a progressive number and ancient Egyptian gods.
ILARIA BIGNOTTI &
VERA CANEVAZZI
curators for
IAGA Contemporary Art