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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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Two Boys with
Table and Sphere
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| Still Life with
Marrows |
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| Still Life with
Glass |
41 x 34.5
Oil on Canvas |
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| Still Life with
Squirrel Skull |
SOLD |
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| Still Life with
Blender |
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