Tomasz Karabowicz graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1997.

Although Tomasz Karabowicz is still quite young, he has several solo exhibitions to his credit. Karabowicz is a realist, but that label does not do him justice. His realism is not yours or mine. He allows subtle changes in color, geometry or perspective to enter his works. His paintings cause us to question what we see, and his distortions draw our attention to the details we might otherwise have overlooked. He is not a fan of the hyper-realistic paintings of the 19th century. Rather, he is drawn to the larger philosophy of painting the world in its real sense, which he describes as "a platform of European art since the Renaissance." His details are not those that the camera captures. His are the details of one who has been at the scene and who took it in with all of the senses, communicating far more about it than would be possible with "true" realism. What, then, is real? And how is reality to be described in a medium that is in many respects entirely artificial? Karabowicz believes in and seeks to capture in his paintings the inherent order of natural things. We are left to wonder whether the order we see in his paintings is natural or the result of the artist's own manipulations. The artist can manipulate only that which the world has made available to him and it is not always clear whether the location of the objects in his paintings were chosen by the artist or by the objects themselves. Perhaps reality is all in how one regards it.

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