Lukasz Milak-Kalinowski, Untitled, 2022.

Lukasz Milak-Kalinowski (born 1984, Opoczno)
Untitled, 2022.
acrylic on panel, 70 x 100 cm (in light passe-partout 60 x 86 cm)
framed

The artist comes from a family with a tradition of fine arts, an admirer of visual forms in the broadest sense. Art from a young child, practically since he remembers was present in his family home. He learned the technique, the workshop from his mother and grandmother. Later in his youth he honed the instilled abilities himself. He built up his creative sensitivity from childhood. Friends still claim that he inherited his talent from his mother. He draws inspiration from literature, observations of his transient surroundings and insomniac visions. He seems to have a slight obsession with the themes of transience, decomposition, decay. For him, art is a passion and a form of a certain psychotherapy.
The thematic spectrum of his work rubs against abstraction, fantasy, surrealism, magical realism. He tries to reflect elementary emotions like pain, fear, passion or peace. A clean sub-painting is like a Tabula rasa for him, on which he paints just as a sculptor derives a shape from a piece of clay, or chisels a wooden board. He creates using a variety of techniques, mainly with acrylic paints on fiberboard. He does not specify, does not clearly define his painting. According to him, each viewer sees in his paintings a reflection of his consciousness.