Kręcicki takes the most ordinary thing imaginable, a washing machine being carried out, and freezes it in a single moment. Sometimes I imagine the canvas is a film. A good one, where you cannot tell what is about to happen. So how is it going to go? Does he carry it through, or does he drop it?
The painter
Tomasz Kręcicki (born 1990) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and co-founded the Potencja group, which set the tone for young painting in the city. He takes the most ordinary objects, a spirit level, a dissolving tablet, a washing machine, and blows them up to a deadpan, monumental scale, less a still life than an exercise in whether we are really looking or only glancing. He has shown at Zachęta, MOCAK and the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art.