Paris Internationale Milano

Individual presentation by Tomasz Kręcicki directly references the character of the art fair’s venue. The multi-storey glass office building not only embodies the post-war development of bureaucracy, but also provides the perfect backdrop for the work of an artist fascinated by the mundanity of everyday life, as well as clichés and representations of corporate work. In Kręcicki’s paintings, the protagonist often appears as a middle-level office employee whose tools of the trade include generic furniture, cables, stacks of paper, pens, and waste bins. The artist’s hyperrealistic work often evokes the neutrality of office spaces with the laminated tabletops, pastel backgrounds and general fluorescent lighting. Kręcicki plays around the ambiguity of the artistic practice – in his narrow frames and close-ups, it’s difficult to distinguish the everyday work of a clerk and that of an artist. 
For the presentation, Kręcicki has created a series of paintings referencing the office workstation. A large-format painting depicting hands clasped over a blank sheet of paper serves as the starting point here: is this going to be a sketch of an artwork or a draft of an agreement? A goodbye letter? A contract termination? The presentation consists of works that construct a situation that is characteristic of the artist, in which the slightest movement can bring about unexpected consequences, the direction and meaning of which depend on the viewer’s interpretation.