The essence of the painting is very often determined by something intangible, something that defies description. In the process appear · stigmatas of Presence · unintended cracks, seizure and injury. These small disturbances animate the painting, they give it depth and open it to the invisible»
Mieczysław Knut
On Friday, April 22, at 6.00 pm Kohan Gallery opened an exhibition of Mieczysław Knut "reticence", which presents the latest works of the artist.
At the exhibition was presented ascetic selection of works by Mieczyslaw Knut“s three cycles - closed triptych UMBRAE and two still on-going; KRYPTÉ and images-icons.
UMBRAE from Greek means shadow, and three small images are an etude dedicated to black. Despite the overwhelming superiority of dark color paintings in this exhibition, they are de facto only ones painted with black pigment.
In a similarly dark tones, though only apparently black, there are four large paintings from the KRYPTÉ series, which in Greek means something hidden. The basic color ink is - kind of very dark, deep green. Symbolically, this color refers to the source of life, and for the images to their origin, their source, and more specifically the color, from which they are born. These images are painted on the edge of visibility. We can compare the situation to the feeling when we enter a dark room and the eye slowly begin to see shapes as if they emerged from the darkness. It is similar to those black paintings, which after a while start to reveal something that is hidden.
Three of the still nascent series of icons, the paintings of the dignity of the iconic tradition; lime on the boards of oak. Icons Prosoche, Aoratos Eikon and Puros, in typical Knut painterly way link to the Greek qualities and objects, which in turn: perseverance, icons and heat.