MAREK TOBOLEWSKI
NEW PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS
For the last 25 years Marek Tobolewski has devoted his creative energies to making ambitious large-scale abstract paintings and drawings. These have been exhibited in galleries internationally including Brussels, Paris and New York.
The new work in his Continuum series has been concerned with symmetry and reflection. Rotating and mirroring linear forms, layering surfaces of pure colour and exposing under-painting through negative lines.
A constant in the artist’s formal abstraction is the arc of a circle - albeit in a state of perpetual evolution - and a preoccupation with the endless reinvention of his own compositions; he continually returns to existing works, adjusting structures and refining each individual flow of a line in an attempt to reveal balance and perfect form.
Marek Tobolewski is currently artist-in-residence at Lakeside Arts Centre where he is engaged in completing a new commission for the University’s Music department. This is the first major solo exhibition of the artist’s work in the UK for over a decade and presents an important opportunity to survey the key developments in his current practice.
LECTURES
THURSDAY 13 MAY 6.30-7.30PM
DJANOGLY ART GALLERY LECTURE THEATRE
ADMISSION FREE
Marek Tobolewski introduces the themes and preoccupations of his past and present work prior to a viewing of his exhibition.
The lecture is free but space is limited so please book in advance by calling the Box Office on 0115 846 7777. If after booking you are unable to attend, please let us know so that we can offer the place to someone else.
1LC SymR-Neg Black on White, 2009
1LC DipSymR Red Deep on Ivory Black 2010
1LC DipSymR+M Ivory Black on Indian Yellow 2010
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1LC DipSymR-Neg Ivory Black on Red Deep, 2010
ICL SymR+M Prussian on Cobalt © The Artist
Installation shots of Marke's exhibition 'Continuum in Symmetry in the Djanogly Art Gallery
8 May - 13 June 2010
".. Tobolewski's artworks are liberatingly abstract, freeing the viewer from the obligation to locate a hidden story. .." - Mark Patterson, Nottingham Evening Post
".. Despite their apparent aesthetic gracefulness, there is something almost obsessive in these relentless organic abstractions. One cannot but wonder at the artist's patience as he works with no end in sight to these seemingly aimless graphic meanderings. It is this very slight sense of unease that establishes a kind of psychological undertow. .." Rob Clark - Guardian