Collection

Paweł Śliwiński frequently leaves things to chance, making no attempt to control the way paint drips off the brush. When creating works organic or animalistic in nature, he seeks inspiration in old biology albums, as in this work, a rendition of disturbing underwater creatures. In a slight gesture of placing two perpendicular lines on canvas, the artist trapped ocean-dwelling predatory fish behind an aquarium wall.

Painter. A graduate of the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, where he studied in Prof. Leon Tarasewicz’s studio, he identified with the “worn out by reality” scene, a movement born in the early 2000s including artists employing a surrealist poetics in their work. Śliwiński approaches his paintings as a palimpsest, applying one layer, detail and background after another until a satisfactory composition is created. He lives and works in Warsaw.