Grzegorz Wnęk: The Artist's Eye

The Frissiras Museum, in continuance of the exhibition series “The artist's eye” presents from April the 14th to September the 30th 2010 in the building of Μonis Asteriou 3, the exhibition “ The Artist's eye: Grzegorz Wnęk”

In the work of the Polish painter Grzegorz Wnęk, painting unreservedly goes back to the traditional representation. Choosing to leave behind complexes and reservations regarding its links to the past, painting maintains the belief that its proposal is more contemporary than ever.
 
Indeed, it seems that his painting has evolved to a form of expression capable of providing convincing answers in many of contemporary art's tantalizing questions.
 
By simply changing its means and methods, the revived representative painting, as seen in Wnęk's work, is set to assume an active social mission to become a food for thought and alert regarding what is currently going on in this theatre of the Absurd that defines life in contemporary societies.
 
Through his return to a thematic, narrative painting Wnęk chooses to upgrade the artist's social role in shaping human fate. Inevitably, man becomes the focal point of his painting. He is depicted in his environment. Everyday quests and activities may often surpass the boundaries of tragic.

Wnęk has no restrain in presenting the misery in everyday life and does not succumb to the rules of decorative art that has pervaded to such a great extent contemporary painting. On the contrary, his work consists an open invitation to debate and social action, thus rendering itself to great art. Consequently, as such, it has a place in the Frissiras Museum.
 
In accordance with the “The artist's eye” series, the artist has selected works by: Andrea Martinelli,Jean Rustin,Peter Blake, R.B. Kitaij, Clive Smith, Apostolos Georgiou, Leon Golub, Celia Paul, Christopher Lebrun, Alexis Veroukas, László Fehér, Paoula Rego, Dieter Mammel, Victoria Russel, Marc Desgrandschamps, Bogumił Książek, Andrew Tift, Brann Renaud, Simon Pasieka, Xiang Shi, Riyas Komu, Biljana Djurdjevic, Dimitris Tzamouranis, to accompany his works, all from the Frissiras Museum collections.