Jarosław Paluch
Jarosław Paluch (1967 – 1999).
He lived and worked in Warsaw.
Studies in the years 1988 – 1993.
Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the studios of professors: Konieczny, Kalin, Tarasin, Winiarski. Graduated with honors from professor Gierowski. Participation in individual and collective exhibitions. Shareholder activity (dzialalność akcjonerska) – traditional and smoke painting, speculative objects, works bordering on jewelery and art, video art, collage. Collaboration with artists from various fields of art – musicians, poets. Author of visual poetry, records-documentation.
Absurdity and irony were at the heart of the artist’s artistic path in the chaotic moment of the collapse of the old world and the uncertain vision of the new. The idea of smooth mixing of art and drawing energy from strong emotions associated with popular culture was significant.
“… taking over a certain energy and vitality from other fields of culture, which is lacking in the field of art. But also experimenting with new places where art is created and functioning … ”(Łukasz Ronduda).
In 1989, Paluch began attending Marek Konieczny’s guest studio, newly established at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. This meeting had an extremely significant impact on the entire work of the artist. The work of students with a professor was not about communicating postulates to them, but about provoking certain situations in which students usually had to intuitively sense what their professor was about. The artist uses fire as a material for a work of art, creating ephemeral and very controversial one-off artistic actions. He consciously does not give titles to his paintings, although in some cases these are ironic references to mass culture. Together with his friends from the Konieczny studio (Uklański, Bodzianowski), he participates in informal art exhibitions (e.g. exhibitions of the MASONS group, in places not related to the official exhibition circuit), or as an „informal artistic group” he carries out provocative artistic activities during punk concerts.
The spirit of Paluch’s works is best reflected in the opinion of Professor Ryszard Winiarski: “Jarosław Paluch’s creative work is situated on the border of poetry and visual activities. It is a kind of reflection on the human ability to perceive and understand. It takes place on several levels at the same time, individual images are a record, or perhaps a scenario of unreal, symbolic situations, the reading and understanding of which is a form of making them real .. He does not play with the audience and does not think about the social function of art, it is rather a game with his own imagination . He uses irony, mystification and demystification, he tries to save the meaning and value, by visiting them from the conventional and formal accretions of representations of the subject. Being convinced of the impossibility of understanding – grasping the truth about himself and the world, he subconsciously follows the suggestion of S. Beckett that the only way out of such a situation is to multiply his own possibilities, fulfill all his potencies, hence art is understood as a form of extending the limits of one’s presence in the world, even at the cost of falling into fiction. Individual images or objects are a kind of impulse, inspiration for those states of our self that would never appear in everyday life „