SZYMON CHWALISZ

„…from other painters it distinguishes me that I only eat paint with chopsticks".

In Szymon's life classic painting is really a safety valve in everyday „craft-like treatment” of his painting workshop. During the process of creating paintings in the years 2014 -
2017 the painter focuses on figurative forms complemented by surreal and at the same time mocking vision of the world he lives in. His paintings are in private collections of collectors from around the world. Ideologically I treat painting equally to the profession of a shoemaker, woodcutter or accounting. There's no hidden philosophy in it. The painter has to create the best possible work,take care of his perfectly shaped composition faultless perspective and analogous color temperature. For figurative forms very important is the knowledge of human anatomy. In my paintings I do not follow
the artificially espouses trend of contemporary art. I think that performative works and paintings based on the geometry or literature is a perfidious attempt to convince the viewer that he does not know much about art. I think that the peak of painting absurdity will be hanging a clean, nothing defiled canvas and calling it „the modern art”. Painting that I am trying to represent is subject close to surrealism, symbolism ... Every time I start a new image I have the same goal - the viewer should be able to read and understand it. In the years 2015 - 2017 Szymon Chwalisz has prepared a collection of oil paintings, mostly depicting the figure of a woman in the absurd visions of unreal scenery. The collection called "Pesticides" contains mostly paintings on the plates sizes of 50 cm x 70 cm, 103 cm x 69 cm and 140 cm x 98 cm.

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On January 12, Szymon's dream came true. His paint got Slash and took with him to Los Angeles. It was a special, surrealistic vision of the artist with an elephant coming out of the artist's characteristic hat. Slash gave autographs on 5 limited prints. They will be sold at charity auctions Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity