ART EXHIBIT

"Altona" by Andrzej Nowicki

Venue: What if the World... @ 208 Albert Rd, Woodstock. Tel: (021) 448 1438.
Gallery Hours: Mon - Fri:  10:00am - 5:00pm, Sat: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Duration: 1 - 31 Oct 2009

As a follow up to his acclaimed debut solo exhibition The Gloaming, Whatiftheworld / Gallery announces a new solo presentation by up-and-coming young painter Andrzej Nowicki.

Drawing on references and influences outside of the traditional highbrow art context, Andrzej Nowicki shows a playful engagement with ephemera from popular culture. Nowicki makes paintings and drawings that create parallel universes where people and objects multiply and metamorphose into ever more strange visions.

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His disquieting dreamlike tableaux combine the seductive allure of a fairy tales with the perverse playfulness of Surrealism and the insight of speculative fiction to create disordered narratives.

While continuing to work with these narratives in his newest body of work, Nowicki begins to engage with the more formal aspects of his practice. Consciously exploring the use of pattern and repetition in the medium of watercolour and collage.

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