Marcin Zawicki

The eponymous Homoiomeries is a term from Anaxagoras’ philosophy describing the ‘parts of all things’, the qualitatively indivisible elementary particles of the universe. These elements, mixed together, set in motion by the divine, gave birth to matter. Zawicki, in turn, arranges these into models and mock-ups, sculptural prototypes, and simultaneously creates compositions based on Dutch still life paintings, in order to subject the resulting forms to the illusion and reality of the canvas. Contemporary objects appear in these tangibly organic, hallucinogenic representations-visions that make it impossible to identify any leading or coherent history. Small plastic toys or fragments of everyday plastic objects will exist in this world of matter for a long time, because their time of decay is much longer than that of vegetables and fruit in the compositions of Dutch masters.

• Object type:
  oil on canvas, 4 elements
• Year:
  2016
• Dimensions:
  25 × 75.5 × 4.5 cm; 200 × 150 cm each;
• inv. no.:
  MNG/NOMUS/32/D/1-5
• Własność:
  Deposit of the City of Gdańsk, part of the Gdańsk Collection of Contemporary Art