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From 28 January, the City Gallery in Wrocław will fill up with Eugeniusz Minciel’s art. Alongside his latest paintings, the artist will exhibit a series of previously unpresented prints produced in the 1980s.
Eugeniusz Minciel made his artistic debut in the 1980s. Thus, unsurprisingly, his art – originating in the New Expression trend that prevailed in Poland at that time – has been marked with a strongly expressive gesture which has become a distinctive feature of the artist’s work. Over following decades, Minciel has been gradually departing from representativeness in his artistic practice, simultaneously developing his own abstract painting language. For years, he has intensely experimented with colours and form, successively extending his own arsenal of means of expression. In the painting gesture area, Minciel has freely balanced between the severity of geometric shapes, harmony of flowing lines and the dynamics of sudden, casual paintbrush strokes. His latest pictures, presented on the exhibition They Circulate in the Spiral of Abyss, show a wide range of the artist’s formal search, even more visible when confronted with his graphic works dating from the 1980’s.
In the content area, the artist has been focused on the visual documentation process of his own, hardly perceptible feelings and emotional impulses. Using art as a medium to take deep, introspective trips, Minciel turns to the inner nature of things, so extensively explored by Wassily Kandinsky in his text Concerning the Spiritual in Art. Thus, in this dimension, the artist’s work has a self-therapeutic character.
The title of the exhibition organised at the City Gallery in Wrocław, They Circulate in the Spiral of Abyss, comes from one of Minciel’s laconic poems. Drawing on the reflections of the aforementioned Russian abstractionist, the artist from Księżyce village (the name in Polish signifies Moons) uses in his art compositional strategies specific to such artistic fields as literature and music. It is visible above all in the characteristic method of gradual layering of forms and colours on the canvas. The artist not only subjects the painting material to meticulous scrutiny, but also brings out the spiritual meaning of each element he applies to the painting. As a result, Minciel’s art can be experienced both with the eye and all the other senses.
The exhibition runs from 28 January to 24 February this year.
The exhibition is curated by Katarzyna Zahorska.
