Collection

  • Rafał Bujnowski, Eye Sockets (4), 2010
  • Rafał Bujnowski, Eye Sockets (4), 2010

Rafał Bujnowski’s work mostly draws on themes from his immediate surroundings. His paintings form small or large series that analyse the painting medium, often rejecting it’s traditional traits. In his piece Eye Sockets, Bujnowski offers cold, architectural images of an unfinished block of flats, reminding us of the ongoing economic crisis, and the empty buildings so familiar from the Polish landscape—symbols of rampant ambition, feverish zeal, and money (or the lack of it). Standing on the floor, these monumental paintings perfectly mimic the texture of bare concrete walls, the shiny black window openings like hyperrealistic three-dimensional objects. This series refers to his previous piece Lamp Black (2007), in which Bujnowski painted monochrome black canvases that look different depending on the angle or the light falling on them. As in Eye Sockets, the theme underlying those conceptual works was pitch-black surfaces reflecting light

Year: 2010
Medium: installation composed of 5 images, oil/canvas
Format: 160×160 cm

Acquisition: purchase
Ownership form: collection
Source: Raster Sp. z o.o. sp.komandytowa
Index: MSN: 4300-36-4/2012
Acquisition date:
Financing source: Purchased with the support of Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

See also

Other Works From That Artist