Polish painter Jakub Julian Ziolkowski (born 1980) mixes elements of the carnivalesque, the decorative and the fantastical in his wild cosmos of mutant humans, lumpy forms and strange circulatory systems--as though Paul Thek had used the hand and eye of Philip Guston to paint his sculptures. Ziolkowski belongs to a generation of Polish artists who have erected their own personal universes as a bulwark against realisms.
Polish painter Jakub Julian Ziolkowski (born 1980) mixes elements of the carnivalesque, the decorative and the fantastical in his wild cosmos of mutan...