Ciało, nieskończoność i koniugacja. O perceptach i afektach twórczości Władysława Jackiewicza, Jacka Mydlarskiego i Romana Gajewskiego

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Body, infinity and conjugation. On percepts and affects in the art of Władysław Jackiewicz, Jacek Mydlarski and Roman Gajewski

This text reflects on the art of three Gdansk painters: Władysław Jackiewicz (1924–2016) and the two of his students, representing the next generation – Jacek Mydlarski and Roman Gajewski. It continues the author’s former discussion on the myth and specific traits of the ‘Sopot School’ and tackles the long process of modernisation initiated in that artistic circle by Piotr Potworowski and the reformation of colourism. The fluctuating art of Jackiewicz is representative of these changes. In the seventies he entered a phase that he continued till the end of his life. He was constantly looking for the equivalent of a human body identified with painting in absolute form, a pure quest for formal, colouristic perfection. In their art, Mydlarski and Gajewski represent different approaches to the transformation of Jackiewicz’s ‘lesson’: on the one hand, the contemplative, white and blue meta-paintings, and on the other critical reflection using multiplication and digital techniques to describe global reality. The proper approach to analyse their different attitudes as well as to look for common traits would seem to be Deleuze and Guattari concept of the percepts and affects that conceives art as a self-sufficient compound independent from perceptions and individual experience.

Translated by Anna Maria Mydlarska