Jakub Julian Ziólkowski

Polish painter Jakub Julian Ziolkowski (born 1980) mixes elements of the carnivalesque, the decorative and the fantastical in his wild cosmos of mutant humans, lumpy forms and strange circulatory systems-as though Paul Thek had used the hand and eye of Philip Guston to paint his sculptures. Ziolkowski belongs to a generation of Polish artists who have erected their own personal universes as a bulwark against realisms.