Kręcicki takes the most ordinary object he can find, here a washing machine, and paints it large enough to stop you in your tracks. The humour is deadpan and the craft is dead serious, and that gap is the whole trick. He belongs to the Krakow generation that turned the everyday into a subject worth a wall.
The painter
Tomasz Kręcicki (born 1990) is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow and a co-founder of the Potencja group, which reshaped young painting in the city. He turns the most ordinary objects into monumental, deadpan paintings. He has shown at Zachęta, MOCAK and the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art.