How does one experience the world when they lack the capacity of abstract thinking? Is our experience of the world "natural" or "artificial" — "abstract"? Such questions have always been asked from the scientific and philosophic perspective. Polish painter Mela Yerka sees the death of painting as an opportunity for this medium to ask these questions from a new standpoint. Painting, she says, is always abstract. It is as artificial as can be. It is not part of this world. Therefore it is an ideal medium to question precisely this world. (Review by Cristina Bogdan)
Discovery of Moses after Rembrandt
40.5 × 30.5 cm, Oil on canvas, 2012
Discovery of Moses after Luigi Garzi
50 × 50 cm, Bleach on linen, 2012
Genie Wiley (younger)
56 × 47.5 cm, Green velvet, 2012
Genie Wiley with Family
100 × 85 cm, Oil on linen, 2012
Genie Wiley (glasses)
60 × 70 cm, Oil on linen, 2012
Genie Wiley (older)
47 × 56 cm, Acrylic on linen, 2012
Ivan Mishukov
120 × 80 cm, Egg tempera and acrylic on linen, 2012
John Ssebunya
46.5 × 35.5 cm, Oil on velvet, 2012
Kamala
60 × 70 cm, Acrylic and silver leaf on linen, 2012
