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In art, I often focus on fundamental work, inherently free, on craftsmanship, experiments with materials and tools, and on technologies. By education, I am a painter, yet I continuously expand my practices, directing my interest towards sculpture, assembling collages, combining objects, fabric, and installing scenography. I constantly strive to confront the challenges of the professional environment.

 

In doing so, I broaden awareness of constructing my own artistic language, which in my conviction should primarily be based on skillful management of visual means. These means in themselves carry a sum of perceptions, metaphors, associations, allusions, emotions, or dramaturgy, constituting a unique narrative code.

 

I believe that my art is an intuitive illustration of free whims of fantasy, defined by the emerging perception of an idealistic-artisan, a romantic-fantast, and a plastic-maximalist.

 

I trust that my creative work is shaped in a form suggestive enough that each person, open to the experience, has the opportunity to surrender to their own fantasy, their own interpretation, their own conjectures, or the game of implications. Let the entirety of my exhibition be a playful digression, a naive suggestion of a smile, a surge of passion and humanism.

Tomek Haładaj  

 

Tomek Haładaj - born in 1996; graduate of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. In his artistic practice, he mainly engages in acrylic painting, collage, drawing, sculpture, and the assembly of ready-made objects. The artist often experiments with technologies and materials in the spirit of "patent-making." He frequently incorporates found objects from the street, trash, or vacant spaces into his works, which, through the artist's imagination, are reformulated into new qualities and contexts. Haładaj primarily references experiences of surrealism, Dadaism, and art brut in his art, aiming to practice unbridled, bold, and honest creativity towards his own views and observations. He has participated in collective and solo exhibitions including at the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko, Rondo Sztuki in Katowice, Szaber Gallery in Kraków, and OFF Gallery in Łódź. His artworks can be viewed daily in Łódź at the BookArtMuseum and at the Działania Foundation.