meet the real: Rafal Topolewski

My practice is based on the understanding and interpretation of information through memory and it's divided between abstract and realism, which finds its result in recalled images. Paint application provides a solution for long-term, short-term and sensory memory and builds a dialogue between information, picture and interpretation. The information which is used to create composition is various. It can be serious, trivial, accidental, planned, mechanical, spontaneous etc. Through paint I explore memory and define it by surface, gestural marks, colour and shapes, which helps me to understand the human ability to remember. Through the successive process of refreshed memory accumulation I try to build a new space for discussion about approaching the deconstruction of truth. It opens a new stage of explored reality.

My paintings are an exploration about different types of representation, about the fascination and power of painting, which can have an impact on human perception and on the creation of the modern world. Questioning myself what painting means in the 21st Century, I try to find diverse paint explanation.