Tomasz Kręcicki Support, 2025
Oil on canvas
55 x 33 cm
The work is from a group of paintings depicting potted plants. The motif with its well-kept round vessel and dried plants suggest a past and present, as well as a human presence: Someone cared for the plants, they may be gifts from friends or family. Represented in various states, they speak of care, neglect, resignation but also resilience.
Tomasz Kręcicki’s conceptual approach to painting has a cinematic dimension. His works often seem to functions as a storyboard frame, with details that invite viewers to construct their own narrative and that become stepping stones for our imagination: The monumentally enlarged details of seemingly ordinary objects amount to brief glimpses, in close-ups, of a narrative that extends into the past and, importantly, will continue.
Kręcicki uses the subject to demonstrate his extensive knowledge of and admiration for painters who have represented plants in domestic settings, both the historical genre of vanitas still-lifes and more specifically 20th century and modern depictions as metaphors or symbolic representations.
Tomasz Kręcicki’s conceptual approach to painting has a cinematic dimension. His works often seem to functions as a storyboard frame, with details that invite viewers to construct their own narrative and that become stepping stones for our imagination: The monumentally enlarged details of seemingly ordinary objects amount to brief glimpses, in close-ups, of a narrative that extends into the past and, importantly, will continue.
Kręcicki uses the subject to demonstrate his extensive knowledge of and admiration for painters who have represented plants in domestic settings, both the historical genre of vanitas still-lifes and more specifically 20th century and modern depictions as metaphors or symbolic representations.