Tomasz Karabowicz: Essays
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A Dried Lake and Confusions of Young Karabowicz
A Dried Lake is a title of Tomek Karabowicz’s painting. The real dried lake is in Karczunek, the artist’s home village located in eastern Poland. I was shown this picturesque wilderness when I visited him in summer.
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Men’s Secrects
Tomasz looks for male models delighting with their innocence. He gets attracted by faces of youths free of anxieties of the mature age. Their innocence is at times emphasised by the artists by transparent glass objects set at the background. He would compare his half-naked characters to blooming flowers due to wilt soon. They are really, albeit ephemerally, powerful.
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A fleeting love for things mundane
Pure and elaborately arranged still lives by Tomek Karabowicz evoke associations with the 17th-century Dutch painting, at first glance. This is particularly true about those recent ones, with glass vessels, harmony, and absolute unity of all elements, bringing to mind the Breakfast scenes by Willem Claesz Heda.
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Things visible
Seeing things as they are. Such a task is easy to conceive, almost natural, for it boils down to seeing with one’s own eyes whatever appears in front of them. The whole thing, however, is entirely different when it comes to these things being seen by a painter, just in order for him or her to paint them instantly afterwards.
