Raman Kaminski: Past Garden

Free
Address Dzielna 5 lok.5B, Warszawa
Entry Free
Venue's website www.hosgallery.pl
Curator Olga Mzhelskaya

The exhibition Past Garden presents the realisations of the Belarusian artist Raman Kaminsky (1988), the result of his personal experiences in recent months. Like many Belarusians, Raman experienced a double emigration after the Russian invasion in February 2022. At that time, he was already living in Kiev, later moving to Georgia and on to France. This was compounded by a personal tragedy - the loss of his mother, whose funeral he was unable to attend due to the political situation in Belarus. In his artistic practices, Raman Kaminski synthesises techniques and colours derived from different styles and eras. His work is a constant experiment harnessing media (painting, graphics, sculpture, music, dance), but the main theme of his realisations remains everyday life and its psychologism.

In the works presented in the exhibition, the counterpoint between the subject matter and the method of realisation is important. This refers to the extremely painful, lonely and pain-filled content of the works contrasting with the bright, saturated colour palette. It is this counterpoint that creates the gap that is the portal to the artist's painful experience. In turn, the portal itself is heightened by the scale of the works, whose dominant monumentality, as a metaphor for the power of internal traumatic and dramatic feelings, affects the author and the viewer. All the works in this series were created as part of a residency in Fontvreaud, France, where the artist was given a medieval church building with stone walls as his studio, the texture of which was reflected on the canvases. In creating the self-portraits, Raman literally immersed himself in the experience of traumatic pain, dissecting it and decorating them with bright flowers in the final stages of painting. To paraphrase the artist, the collection of works is his exploration and attempt to escape his own pain. In the process, art has become a therapeutic ritual for him.

Past events

Warszawa, HOS Gallery Past Garden: Curatorial Tour
Warszawa, HOS Gallery Past Garden: Meeting With the Artist and Curator
Warszawa, HOS Gallery Opening: Past Garden

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