Polish Pener Takes a “Vacation From Reality” in Christschurch, NZ

Christschurch in New Zealand has viewed a boom in street artwork for the last 10 years, which lots of attributes to the devastating earthquake that killed approximately 200 individuals in 2011. Growing like a imaginative phoenix on painted walls, road artists’ flood of public works is credited for summoning a group strength and elegance right here in Ōtautahi, the title given to this town to start with by the Māori.

A growth in the gallery scene promptly adopted, and Jenna and Nathan Ingram opened Fiksate in 2015. The white box gallery is known mainly as a respected hub for the street artwork/urban present-day art genres. They have a steadily escalating roster of neighborhood and global artists, some of whom you could identify.

At this time, they are hosting a display by the Polish artist Pener, whose saturated abstractions have developed from his deconstructing graffiti letterforms and his fascination with the mechanized environment. Now he confesses that his forms are softening rather because of to his maturing approach and gentle way of seeking at lifetime. Portion of a increasing college of Polish artists creating summary performs, Pener (Bartek Swiqtecki) has come to be pretty passionate about this non-figurative type that enables for specific interpretation.

He arrived in NZ following a 30-hour journey from Poland and labored quickly for a 7 days to mount the exhibition “Vacation From Reality.” The clearly show capabilities 8 substantial first canvasses, 3 minimal-version prints, and some abstractly grey shadowed partitions on which to dangle them.

Pener spoke of his process and headspace with nearby street art pro Reuben Woods, an artwork historian, writer, and curator. He writes a column for the site “Watch This Space”.

From the interview, we share with you just one Q&A from their dialogue that marks this exhibition to give BSA visitors with bigger context and perception.

Reuben Woods: As an abstract artist, you have said you commence with an emotion and the procedure, and when I appear at your work, I just can’t support but feel it captures the nervousness and emotional fracture of contemporary modern society. Is that intentional or a outcome of our ability to go through abstraction as we need to?
Pener: I normally get the impact that the paintings are a bit like mirrors in which we can search at our thoughts. My paintings serene me down and give me peace. Usually, in the procedure of portray, I freeze in front of a painting. I seem at it for so extended that I cease thinking. It’s the very same experience as if you swim for a extensive time in the swimming pool or climb in the mountains and quit thinking about day to day complications. It normally takes you somewhere within or outdoors.

Almost certainly everybody has a a little bit distinctive interpretation of is effective of artwork – which is very intriguing. Some folks see precise designs in them, other individuals only experience emotions. I am pretty pleased when someone interprets my paintings in a way that I did not know and did not see.