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ZBIGNIEW ROGALSKI - works
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Closer, 2006 Series of 3 paintings - intimate portraits. Faces lying on pillows, are depicted from too close distance - images double, facial features lose their individuality, leaving the question of gender open. |
 Closer (self-portrait), 2006, oil on canvas, 180 x 120 cm |
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 Closer (boy), 2006, oil on canvas, 180 x 120 cm; Closer (girl), 2006, oil on canvas, 180 x 120 cm |
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Private Spring (2), 2005 (Self)reflective attempt at a contemporary landscape painting. In the photograph, included in the passé-partout, one can see a refection of the artist's studio.  | |||
Funeral portraits, 2005 Contemporary vanitas. The inspiration for this series of paintings was the image reflected on the surface of the porcelain funeral photographs. Individual paintings are portraits of young deceased women, whose graves Rogalski photographed during a visit to one of the Warsaw's cemeteries. | |||
 Funeral portraits: Wanda Blonska, 2005, oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm |
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Crash Position (1), 2007 Painting about flying and the experiences connected with it - the person floats under the ceiling like a balloon, being hunched in a position recommended during an emergency landing.  | |||
Untitled (Wings 1-4), 2007 Large-scale studio photographs of miniature birds' wings, inspired by the thematically analogous series of watercolors by Albrecht Durer. An attempt to depict the elaborate and delicate build of birds' feathers with the highest degree of precision, which cannot be achieved trough painterly means and techniques. This project was prepared for the artist's individual show at Almine Rech Gallery in Paris (2007), which was devoted to various experiences of flying.
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PProjection (1), 2006 Refined multi-level project concerned with the visionariness of art, it's illusions and material dimension. An "Unplugged" video projection: a cardboard model of a projector "projects" the images on a screen, which is in fact a painted image of a video projection. The painting depicts abstract constructs made of cardboard and household utilities, which create an utopian architectural model composed by the artists - a subjective projection of the future Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. |  | ||
 Projekcja [1], 2006, widok ekspozycji w Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi w ramach wystawy "Muzeum jako świetlany przedmiot pożądania " |
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Together (3), 2004 Painting from a longer series presented at artist's first individual exhibition in griedervonputtkamer gallery in Berlin. The main heroin of this series - even if not always fully visible on the painting - is the painter's partner, Karolina. |  | ||
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Untitled, 2004 Painting alluding to the "Together" series. While painting, Rogalski used his own studio photographs and paper shapes which he employed in them - in this case the shape of an exhaust cloud. | |||
Untitled (Laika), 2003 Painting from one of the best know series - self-portraits in front of a steamed-up mirror. The words written on the steamed-up surface were usually the names of the painter's favorite musicians: Joy Division, Bauhaus, Bjork. |  | ||
Untitled (Gagarin), 2003 Work from the "Heroes" series, where the names of musicians, painters, philosophers and astronauts appeared written with a finger on a steamed-up glass pane.  | |||
Untitled (Jealousy), 2004 Painting from a series alluding to Rogalski's favorite works of modern and contemporary art - here, in the background of the word "jealousy" one can see Yves Klein's "Leap into the Void". |  | ||
About my neighbour's death, 2003 A painting inspired by a real event - the death of the author's neighbour. The body of the deceased was found a few days after the death, in an apartment adjacent to Rogalski's studio and apartment.  | |||
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