Orphan Painting

Robert Szczerbowski (read: Scherbowski) Conceptual artist, painter, writer, born 1959, lives and works in Warsaw, Poland. He started his artistic activity as a writer. However, he consistently moved away from the sphere of language, increasingly incorporating visual elements into his work. "The artist builds his own fictional dimension, regardless of the medium he uses. His books, objects, paintings and films are subject to the deconstruction of learned ways of perception. They break illusions, often evoking the feeling of absurdity. He uses the language of "high-tech" and analyzes its impact on the inner space of man, his spiritual needs and imagination. In objects and installations Szczerbowski uses, among others, hermetic computer programming languages, and in paintings refers to fractal geometry. In most works, he strives to obliterate the subjective element, trying to authenticate their fictional and apocryphal reality as much as possible. Some of his books were published anonymously, and many artistic works are simulacra. He creates films that reveal the mechanisms of the hypnotic reality of mainstream cinema. His versatile work is characterized by the trickster's approach. " (D. Misiuna Chaosmos) His "cybercanvas" (a cycle called Fractal paintings) constitute an attempt to relate painting to modern-day mathematics and geometry, and, on the other hand, to the computer virtual space that has become the new reality of the digital era. Szczerbowski represents structures composed of pixels painted with oil and acrylic on canvas. He is inspired by a similarity between forms obtained through purely mathematical operations and with the use of a machine - and motifs from the realm of human imagination, manifested once in, among other things, art and religion.