Tomasz Kręcicki

Tomasz Kręcicki con­structs his pain­tings by playing with scale, con­sciously manipulating conven­tions of depiction—from Pop Art to minimalism and expressionism. At the centre of the artist’s interest are objects and props so ordinary that he can effec­tively play on their images: to mythologize the everyday and to throw into doubt its poetic beauty eagerly exploited by artists. There is visible erotic tension in his paintings, which are inspired by erothic thrillers and b-movies. A series of pain­tings are com­posed as film stills displaying an unexpec­ted, delirious war­ping of reality: falling cars, swallowing pills, compositions with guns, knifes, or mon­strous fin­ger­tips. 

Tomasz Kręcicki (1990) lives and works in Cracow. Together with painters Karolina Jabłońska and Cyryl Polaczek has founded artist's run space called Potencja in Kraków.