New York Times about Ziółkowski
środa, 11 sierpnia 2010
The young Polish painter Jakub Julian Ziolkowski is the subject of quite a bit of buzz and clamor among collectors. (…) After making a splash last year in “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” at the New Museum in Manhattan – where his jewel-toned fantasies stood out amid the prevailing videos, installations and sculptures – Mr. Ziolkowski is now having his American solo debut with Hauser & Wirth New York. You could say he works fast. All 28 of the paintings and gouaches in this show – titled “Timothy Galoty & the Dead Brains,” in tribute to an imaginary rock band – date from this year. (…)
Mr. Ziolkowski seems to work largely alone in an area of his own devising, excavating material from layers of painting’s recent and distant past and binding them into units that are variously horrific, beautiful, pertinent and sexually charged. (…)
Mr. Ziolkowski’s paintings initially look slightly old-fashioned and juvenile, as if they have just emerged from a prewar attic or a hyper-hormonal teenager’s bedroom. He works in oil; his surfaces are smooth but not shiny, painted quickly with a distinct lack of preciousness. Small, rushed strokes predominate, with occasional forays into linear improvisations that deftly balance geometry and image. Some clear sources of inspiration include Surrealism, Neue Sachlichkeit, Northern Renaissance painting, Picasso, cartooning and children’s book illustration, all filtered through his obsessive, of-the-moment imagination.
The Body, Whole or in Parts, by Roberta Smith, „New York Times”, 5th of July 2010
www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/arts/design/06ziolkowski.html