The works from the series CountryUrban images refer to cities, spaces and what constitutes their character and identity. Urban landscapes-vedutes so widely spread in the painting of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries become the starting point of my works. Oil paints are replaced by felt-tip pens, pencils, coloured paper and photography. 18th century urban capriccias-“primitive collages”, in which artists freely juxtaposed various places that did not necessarily exist next to each other in reality in the urban tissue of the city, became an inspiring contribution to the creation of this series. The collage technique in the strict sense initiated by Pablo Picasso and George Braque at the beginning of the 20th century, developed by many artists, including Hannah Höch, Man Ray or Dora Maar, Barbara Krűger, art books, illustrations, dioramas, comics and 18th century silhouettes cut out of paper before photography was invented, constitute the background of the technological inspiration of the exhibition. At the exhibition “Urban landscapes” I present 16 works showing places that I have visited for a longer period of time or where I have lived, including Warsaw, Paris, Oxford. Some of the works are based on my own photographs taken with an analogue camera, including developing the films and processing them in the darkroom. The second part of the photographs is a digital photograph also taken by me. For uniformity, the photographic layer of the works is printed on matte paper. 

In the content layer, I refer to stereotypical representations of the city, sometimes I duplicate them and sometimes I replace them with new, unconventional combinations. I also show situations that can often be found in vibrant cities. Sometimes I go back in time, referring to the colors or models of cars circulating on the streets of Polish cities, especially Warsaw in the 60s or 70s. This transfer in time was inspired by furniture, old things, washing machines, armchairs or abandoned cars found on the streets of Praga Południe, where I live, or restored buses full of tourists circulating in these areas. Thanks to this exhibition, you can look at the city with a slight twinkle in the eye, and the works have the character of loose, sometimes funny associations on the subject of the urban landscape.