Vernissage of Andrzej Cwalina’s painting exhibition ON THE VERGE OF LIGHT

Gardzienice’ Centre for Theatre Practices
invites to the vernissage of Andrzej Cwalina’s painting exhibition
ON THE VERGE OF LIGHT

Exhibition opening: 27 April 2025, 4.00 pm
at Palace of the Centre for Theatre Practices ‘Gardzienice’
Gardzienice Pierwsze 3, 21-050 Piaski

Curator of the exhibition: Zuzanna Zubek-Gańska
Light arrangement: Włodzimierz Janowski

The vernissage will be followed by a concert of the Piaski Brass Orchestra, playing some of the best-known pieces of world music, including rock.
Events take place as part of ‘Open Sunday’ at the ‘Gardzienice’ Theatre.
Admission to the opening and the exhibition is free.

The exhibition can be viewed until June 30, 2025.

 The light is an intrinsic element of the painting, coexisting in it on an equal level with colour or contour. Sometimes unknowingly, as a delicate glaze laid on a sheet of water that escapes any formulation. Sometimes it symbolically and mysteriously indicates the boundaries of a shadow, a furrow on the human body, an uneven texture or a crack in a rock, the time of day when the light creeps through a thicket of grass in an otherwise unremarkable patch of forest.It just exists, and sometimes it happens, but it doesn’t have to.   The light is the determinant and reveals the artist’s workshop in his work, sometimes it directly tells us that the canvas was created in the studio,and sometimes it oscillates around the time of day and then we can feel that the work we are dealing with was created in the open air. And sometimes it deceptively avoids an unambiguous answer. Many artists have faced the light.
And Andrzej Cwalina made it come out towards us. For a moment and forever. Standing still, it acquires strength, power, in the rendering of its power of luminosity.Light enclosed in a circle is the beginning and the end, it is both a closed and an open form. It vibrates and does not cease, confuses the eye and forces it to work hard,
breaking all acceptable norms.The artist’s paintings vibrate, pulse, and do not cease in the movement into which a ray of light has introduced them, and it would seem that it is the light that reclaims the space of the painting.   At the boundary of the light, everything closes in, the darkness falls silent and the background becomes a boundlessness that needs no binding frame.The attempt to capturethis and record it on canvas becomes a story, which we wish to read. 

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