Collaborative Painting
August 21, 2017:
During our summerly meeting in Warsaw, Artur Zmijewski, renowned Polish visual artist with whom I already collaborate for almost a decade, and I painted together. Collaborative painting is an essential part of Artur's artistic practice and has become a fascinating method of exploration for me too. As a form of communication. Modes of expression. With much space for chaos and abstraction. Intuitively the complexity of our inner worlds is being put into images. However initiating a process of creation can be a painful task. Shock. Depression? We put most of the paintings in a 'waiting room', since we are both not sure whether they are done. Distance is needed. At least for a few hours. Sleep and digestion. On the following morning we decide to sign the images and leave them as they are... Warsaw, 17 and 18 August 2017 Christina Lammer
During our summerly meeting in Warsaw, Artur Zmijewski, renowned Polish visual artist with whom I already collaborate for almost a decade, and I painted together. Collaborative painting is an essential part of Artur's artistic practice and has become a fascinating method of exploration for me too. As a form of communication. Modes of expression. With much space for chaos and abstraction. Intuitively the complexity of our inner worlds is being put into images. However initiating a process of creation can be a painful task. Shock. Depression? We put most of the paintings in a 'waiting room', since we are both not sure whether they are done. Distance is needed. At least for a few hours. Sleep and digestion. On the following morning we decide to sign the images and leave them as they are... Warsaw, 17 and 18 August 2017 Christina Lammer