Filip Wierzbicki-Nowak
Born in 1985 in Poznań, graduated in painting from the University of Arts in Poznań, Prof. Dominik Lejman’s studio (2012).
Filip Wierzbicki-Nowak’s works transgress the scope of the so-called classical painting. Using a variety of media, the artist tries to define anew the space which surrounds him and which he calls “reality”. In his new activities, he continues the process of determining space, the task he first undertook in his diploma work. He creates optical illusions, specific visual traps, in order to focus the attention of a random viewer on the immediate reality, i.e. closest surroundings – lawns, road surfaces, pavements, textures of dirty snow. Using transparent materials like e.g. a mirror, glass or polished sheet metal, he attempts to make the accidental viewer realize that it is the seemingly boring, familiar reality which is truly elusive and in fact just an illusion. The artist creates objects, usually transparent, which do not reveal what they are. The material disappears, thanks to which the viewer has an impression that something incredible has happened here. At the same time, he asks the question of control over the painting, reality and its perception. I appreciate Wierzbicki-Nowak’s work for exactly that – departing from the canvas and using a variety of media and materials in creating a new, spatial picture without a brush or paint.
Iwona Bigos
Filip Wierzbicki-Nowak
Selected solo / duo exhibitions:
- “Space Delusions”, solo exhibition, ABC Gallery, Poznań (accompanying event of the Mediations Biennale and Polska Biennale Conference), 2012
- “Me in the Centre of Poznań/Perception”, solo exhibition with Irene Russo, Post Office Gallery, Poznań (catalogue), 2011
- Solo exhibition with Karolina Witowska, Kulturalna Cafe, Dramatyczny Theatre, Warsaw, 2009
- “Taken Down from the Notion”, solo exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznań, 2010
Selected collective exhibitions:
- “BMW Art / Transforms 2012”, Wielki Theatre – National Opera, Warsaw, 2012
- “To Draw. All-Polish Exhibition of Drawing”, Wozownia Gallery, Toruń, 2012
- “Superficial”, collective exhibition, Nowa Gazownia Pavilion, Poznań, 2011
- “Memento III”, collective exhibition, Enschede (Holland), Cork (Ireland), London, Bristol (UK), Valencia (Spain), Brussels (Belgium), Braunschweig (Germany), 2011
- Collective exhibition of artistic books, Under the Library Gallery, PWSZ, Konin, 2011
- Collective exhibition “Graphic Art of the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań”, Jesuits Gallery, Poznań, 2010
- Collective exhibition “The Sieve of Poznań’s ASP”, faculty of Fine Arts, Copernicus University in Toruń, 2010
- “Unkempt Thoughts Part 2”, Actions Gallery, Warsaw, 2009
- Post-plein-air exhibition “Taken Down from the Notion”, Post Office Gallery, Poznań, 2009
Achievements:
- Finalist of the All-Polish Workshops BMW Art / Transforms, 2012
- Honorary Mention, All-Polish Drawing Exhibition, Toruń, 2012
- Rector’s Scholarship 2011-2012, University of Arts, Poznań, 2011
- Award winner in the International Competition “Me in the Centre of Poznań/Perception” organized by the University of Arts in Poznań
- Erasmus scholarship in Enschede (Holland), 2010-2011
Publications:
- “Heterogeneous Worlds in the Centre of Poznań/Perception”, introduction to the exhibition catalogue, text: Sławomir Brzoska, Post Office Gallery, Poznań, 2011
- “Mental Maps”, text: Marta Tracewska, “Me in the Centre of Poznań/Perception” exhibition catalogue, Post Office Gallery, Poznań, 2011
- “Autonomy of Drawing Thought”, text: Katarzyna Zadworny, Actions Gallery, Warsaw, 2010
- “Kunstlerische Raume in Dodenburg”, text in Eifel Zeitung, Heckenlandforum, Germany, 2009
