Storyteller

Grzegorz Siembida
Storyteller

STRABAG Kunstforum is pleased to invite you to the exhibition Storyteller by GRZEGORZ SIEMBIDA.

OPENING
Thursday, 15.2.2024, 6–9 p.m.

WELCOME
6.30 p.m.
Alfred Watzl
Board Member STRABAG SE

ABOUT THE ARTIST
Goschka Gawlik
Curator, Author and Jury Member STRABAG Artaward International 

A sky full of dreams, a dazzling painting space filled with the lively lightness of clouds, straight from the comic universe - this is Grzegorz Siembida's current world of painting.
The works from his "Storyteller" series are canvases whose image sequences - mainly arranged in "rectangles" and clouds - refer to the nature of comic stories. Siembida uses their structure to vitalise the narrative forms through the articulation of different visual languages. The process of using speech bubbles, familiar from comics, is a form of creativity in which Siembida combines expressive gestural abstraction with a narrative element. His comic paintings are broken down into formal components: In each sequence a different painting problem is accentuated, and so in one of the marked areas there is a clean splatter mark with circular hand movements, in another a watercolour underpainting conceals a dense drawing. But there are also splatter marks reminiscent of hasty scribbles, typical of street art. In another cloud, the colours are lined up as if on a painting palette, on which the right colour is being sought.
Grzegorz Siembida's subject is painting as an experiment in itself. Although unspoken, his usual ruminations on a capitalist structure are conveyed through an excursion of forms across art history. In abstraction paired with an inventive and humorous vigour of comic aesthetics, he produces a striking artistic language. His works move and encourage us to think about the limits of art and the possibilities of spontaneous expression.
Goschka Gawlik

ON VIEW
16.2.–15.3.2024

REGISTRATION
kunstforum@strabag.com
+43 1 224 22 2107

exhibition video 

Grzegorz Siembida on video