oil on canvas, 50 x 120 cm, signed right bottom, 2023
Graduated from the Faculty of Art at the Pedagogical University of Cracow in 2011, defending his diploma under Piotr Jargusz. His works are in private collections at home and abroad.
People in Lozinski's paintings are usually slender figures, without faces. Capturing us like commas in a literary story of life , on a canvas covered with paint, the author tells the story of us, speaking primarily about relationships.
Alone but not alone. Big but small. What is the shadow? Is it our Ego? Is it the way we think of ourselves? Perhaps..When we are alone or so we think we grow in our own eyes. The image in our heads becomes bigger, caricatured. Our belief about ourselves also has another much larger always different dimension. It all sheds light even if we are turned to it ...with our backs.In Philip's paintings it is sometimes difficult to see what direction it is.And that's a good thing.
Or maybe that glow is something beyond us. Something independent. Something that has always been there, that always manifests itself when we need it...Maybe it's hope, maybe it's faith for someone.... Our shapes do not merge with each other, do not cross, do not intermingle. We are always separate in Lozinski's painting. ...But are we always alone? At a particular distance from each other as if we MUST keep our distance.In a crowd, when there are more figures proportions return to their place. The figure and its shadow become proportional.As if we are ordered by proximity.Following this pattern, the story of the relationship is, for example, the painting Guide where the very title even before viewing the painting suggests that this is a canvas about dialogue. What kind of dialogue? Perhaps without words. Here there is already room for our interpretation of what we see.Two figures in the lower part of the canvas.Guide.Is one certainly older than the other? More experienced-certainly because he supports himself with a cane, but this does not necessarily indicate the experience of the body...perhaps only or as much as- years.Or is it an indicator? One like in school when we were taught geography? Maybe it's a lesson. Maybe a simple conversation. Something becomes a pointer to us, and we, playing the role of the other character, for example, become a listener. We are guided. We learn, ...coming out of the bottom of the painting we have a huge space in front of us, an unknown place to which we go at our own pace....and direction.
On some of Philip's earlier works, this is painting in the genre of surrealism and fantasy., The author takes us to places where there seems to have been life until recently. Shreds of buildings, figures, recently erected banners...beliefs and truths. All this covers there with sand and dust but on his canvases we still sometimes return there. Deserted spaces, ragged remnants of matter, broken symbols of belief in anything, or perhaps scaffolding of what was supposed to be permanent. Graveyards of events and places we lived in.
Filip Lozinski's recent works are still experiments with space. A return to the colors of the earth and its textures. It's calm again and gets warm and quiet. We go at them together.
Perhaps we freeze in amazement, stopped in mid-step...that this brilliance though sometimes creating caricatures STILL accompanies us...?
