Opis wystawy
The exhibition will showcase works illustrating the evolution of the master’s visual language – from his groundbreaking works of the 1960s to compositions from later periods of his career. This selection allows us to trace the development of Tarasin’s unique system of signs, through which he recorded the transformations in science and the arts, transforming the surrounding world into a fascinating code. Jan Tarasin’s inspiration gives rise to a truly eclectic mosaic of free-flowing thoughts and isolated references. However, on closer inspection of the artist’s work, a homogeneous whole, logic and coherence become clearly apparent, as does the development of both the ideological message and the painterly form that follows it. The artist was right to regard European, continental culture as limited by a circle, a cultural code of anthropocentrism. For a culture that sets its own limits and is content with the simplest perception of things, treating, for example, the horizon as a barrier—a conventional line that gives us the impression of being at the centre. The numerous questions posed by the painter aim to ascertain whether the world ends beyond the horizon, whether order can arise from chaos, and whether it is enough to give space rhythm and structure. If so, would a schematic symbol or a simplified notation not suffice, rather than a complex ideogram which, after all, need not be unambiguous, descriptive or definitive? Should this scheme be based on imitating the mechanisms of nature, logical or mathematical principles, or should we simply leave it to chance or chaos?