PROTOTYPE

Andrzej Zieliński

Friday 15th July 2011 - Saturday 20th August 2011

CCAS Gorman MIDDLESpace

Some of the most interesting contemporary painters walk the contentious line between abstraction and representation, and Andrzej Zielinski does it adeptly. Zielinski makes paintings of electronic devices- laptops, ATMs, mobile phones, paper shredders- that we no longer know how to live without. For him, these objects have become part of a modern mythology, and he treats them with reverence.

The paintings in Prototype serve as icons for worship, but they run on painting's latest operating system. Upgrades to the system ensure that painting is still a poignant mirror in a world of ever-expanding media and technology. (Annika Harding, 2011)

Image: Andrzej Zielińksi, Bank Machine at Night, 2011, Acrylic on linen, 183cm x 183cm