Hauser & Wirth New York
32 E 69th St
212.794.4970
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June 30, 2010 – July 30, 2010
Mondays–Fridays (10am–6pm)
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“The canvases of Jakub Julian Ziolkowski — whose work was last seen in the New Museum's 2009 group exhibition Younger than Jesus — negotiate the intersection of the perverse and the playful, the living and the decayed. While his brightly colored renderings of mutant skeletons, disembodied breasts, and surgeries attended by villagers bear hints of the folk traditions of his small-town upbringing in Zamosc, Poland, his work transcends his geographical roots, drawing deeply from the masters of centuries past. His paintings recall the macabre tableaux of Hieronymous Bosch and James Ensor, and the fauvist art of Henri Matisse, showing that Ziolkowski is fully engaged with a broad artistic lineage. But his work has an ornamentation, religiosity, and eschatology that is all his own.”
Rozalia Jovanovic, Flavorpill
Hauser & Wirth says:
On June 30, Hauser & Wirth New York will unveil the first American solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, bringing together more than 50 new works. The exhibition will be presented on two floors of the gallery and will remain on view through July 30. The exhibition is titled ‘Timothy Galoty & The Dead Brains,’ named for a fictional rock band that appears in some of the artist’s images (the word galoty in Polish means ‘short pants’ of the sort worn by Eastern European circus clowns). Among the paintings on view at Hauser & Wirth are several that evoke promotional posters for such fantasy bands. Their members can be counted among the large and colorful population of characters inhabiting Ziolkowski’s work, standing in for the artist’s own moods and serving as composite portraits of both human types and states of mind.
