Michal Budny. Inflorescence at Raster Gallery, Warsaw
Michał Budny’s art – the post-minimalism which the artist has been faithful to from the start – takes on vital forms. Strong colours and movement. The reliefs and objects are made of wood and metal, partially covered with paints, but their geometrical structures have a living, individual personality. This natural, organic quality is symbolized by Source, located in the heart of the exhibition, a suggestive composition of twisted and painted steel pipes, forming as it were the heart of the garden.
The “inflorescence” in the title of the show is a metaphor for “blossoming” and a longing for intensity of sensations, while the individual works, viewed one by one, form a spectacle in which varied shapes, textures, colours and reflections of light interplay harmoniously. This garden is thus a narrative of stimulating the senses and sensitivity, but also about materiality and corporeality, with a surprising, almost erotic punchline.
Michal Budny combines restraint with biological and sensual power in his own original fashion. His latest works draw us into an enticing mystery and evoke succulent fruit picked straight from the tree.
Place/ Raster Gallery, Warsaw
ft/ Kate Zaniewska
