Tomasz Kręcicki Support, 2025
Oil on canvas
47 x 42 cm (18 1/2 x 16 1/2 in)
The work is from a group of paintings depicting potted plants produced in the context of the artist's exhibition Move. The motifs suggest a past and present, as well as a human presence: Someone cared for them, they may be gifts from friends or family. Represented in various states, they speak of care, neglect, resignation but also resilience.
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 brings a cinematic dimension to the exhibition, where each painting functions as a storyboard frame, with details that invite viewers to construct their own narrative. Evoking an entire parallel realm of impressions and even sensations, Kręcicki's paintings 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 brings a cinematic dimension to the exhibition, where each painting functions as a storyboard frame, with details that invite viewers to construct their own narrative. Evoking an entire parallel realm of impressions and even sensations, Kręcicki's paintings 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.