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In Sławomir Pawszak’s works, vague shapes drift across a white stretch of canvas. The artist explained in an interview, “I wouldn’t want anyone to try and identify in any way the fragments I painted, as my entire work is about proving that in all actuality, reality comprises abstract forms combined into larger wholes.” Pawszak decided to content himself with fragments, scraps of reality. He claims that a fragment can occasionally become the true pretext for a work; only conventional requirements cause it to sprout other largely irrelevant components.

Painter, creator of videos and spatial installations. He is a painting graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in Prof. Leon Tarasewicz’s studio. His painting does not narrate stories, focusing on one or a few details instead. Yet his works are far from abstract: stains and colour-and-form arrangements are all scraps of reality. In 2016, his painting composition was selected as the victorious project in the competition for the façade of the Museum on the Vistula pavilion, temporary home of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. He lives and works in Warsaw.