Exhibitions
11th - 25th October 2014
Carnival of Monsters
11th - 25th October 2014
Open Daily 12-6:30pm
Barton House, 61 High Road, Chilwell, Nottingham, NG9 4AJ
Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery
12 October 2013 – 10 November 2013
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
B e t w e e n t h e L i n e s
M a r e k T o b o l e w s k i
14 September to 23 November 2013
Terrace Road
Buxton
Derbyshire
SK17 6DA
Sunday & Monday: Closed
Tuesday to Friday: 9:30am to 5:30pm
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Previous Solo - Continuum in Symmetry - New paintings and Drawings
Djanogly Art Gallery
Nottingham UK
8th May - 13th June 2010
Installation shot
Djanogly Art Gallery Nottingham UK
Taking a Line
by Mark Rawlinson
Extract from catalogue Essay
"... Let us consider the process behind Prussian on Cobalt to explore what this might mean.
Tobolewski’s sketches on tracing paper, which like the history of his abstraction still begins with circles
made by a compass, hint at the ways in which the artist is creating lines and taking them, almost against their ‘will’ and incrementally moving them from point-to-point; already the swooping arcs seem less prevalent.
In these original line drawings one sees the emergence of an anatomical taxonomy; pelvises, eye sockets, elongated skulls. Plus, there is the convergence of line through its mirrored self-creating symmetrical paths and threads. Transplanting these symmetrical lines from the sketch onto the picture plane takes place after what appears to be a continuous white-line has been marked out on the linen surface. Notice how this line has the characteristics of a squiggle and that, as the eye traces the path made by the line, it becomes cleat that this might not be one line but several.
What follows is the immersion and then redefinition of line as the artist adds colour to the surface; filling in voids, creating spaces, colonising areas in-between lines, submerging lines, highlighting others.
Quite often, Tobolewski appears to rescue a line, picking it out of the immersive blue and then illuminating intersections between lines and surface. As the picture is filled, lines never quite disappear but their character, their place, the position in the work alter dramatically, producing an almost anatomical image, one filled with veins, arteries, organs, alive beneath a gossamer sheen of skin.
Tobolewski’s lines, then, are not what they seem.
The source of each line is not an additive, continual stroke of the artist’s pencil applied to the work’s surface but circles made by a compass whose arcs are artificially conjoined to form the appearance of gestural, expressive line.
This process of inventing the most convincing line possible is ongoing and Tobolewski goes to extraordinary lengths—from the initial sketch through to the finished work—to eliminate evidence of both the originary circle-forms and, crucially, the ‘joins’ or better, ‘grafts’ that actually create the line (see detail). As such, one can read these lines as chimaeras; where lines of differing trajectories are grafted onto one another to produce what is to the naked eye a contiguous whole. But neither are these lines made only of bands of colour; their self-definition relies as much on at what takes place long their edge, where these traces or threads ‘meet’ the surface of picture. And this is where the history of the line meets the history of surface, because you cannot have one without the other. ..."
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Previous Exhibitions - Sym Solo + Salon Open + Occidental Dimension Group
6 - 29th October 2011
SYM
27 August - 24 September 2011
Occidental DimensionUniversity of Brighton Gallery UK
26th April - 15th May 2010
Occidental Dimension is an exhibition curated by Marek Tobolewski in collaboration with Source the Planet and the Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton. It is the first of a touring show which is intended to be staged in China.
The show builds on the University of Brighton’s commitment to advance and debate new art in tandem with the theme of the Brighton Festival. This year Brian Eno, festival creative director, has positioned culture as an ecology of ideas, exploring how cycles and the recycling of ideas can sustain the vigour of the arts over time.
Exhibiting artists include: Arina, Kate Brinkworth, Julie Fagan, Mik Godley, Tom Hackett, Paul Lewthwaite, Ruth Solomons, Marek Tobolewski, Inge Tong and Julian Wild.
26th April – 15th May 2010
University of Brighton Gallery, Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 0JY.
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