About the Artist
Andrzej Brakoniecki (b. Poland - 1955)
Andrzej Brakoniecki, painter and printmaker. He has made Vancouver, British Columbia his home for the past 30 years. He studied painting at the Collage of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland and
classical animation at Vancouver Film School.His paintings and prints are in public and private collections in Canada,USA,Mexico, Germany, France, England, Russia and Poland.
About the Artist
Brakoniecki constructs his visual world from elements that are close at hand. His art grows out of fascination. Fascination always struggle for the fullness of artistic experience,
often capricious and unexpeted. His iconography grows slowly. The same elements undergo numerous compositional generetions, with every new work bringing different
emotional message. The two coloured side of a tanker becames a loving leitmotif, painstakingly repeated in succeeding colouristic episodes. The more unexpected colour
combinations the more natural, credible, and refreshing to the eye. His works have the fluidity and freedom of elemental phenomena and human moods. One does not feel
the forced arrengement of external objects, and nature never becomes ''nature morte''. A raised hand, or the head of a bird that for a moment might conceal the silhouette
of a ship, do not stop being ''meaningfully accidental''. They continue to maintain their state of transience and the vibrating paint keeps them wonderfully alive.
Brakoniecki paints the world in motion. Ships sway on water that gravitates towards its own depth, an orange overpass dscribes a semicircle along the lines of its curvature;
the spontaneity of painterly gesture infuses the colour with motion. It makes both the detailed and large areas pulse with inner tension.
G. Zambrzycka
Artist Statement
In my practice as a painter I belief in endless possibilities within colour phenomena. It is liberating rather than classifying, but
liberating paradoxically, towards form and meaning. I strongly belief in the autonomy of act of painting that allows me to make
more personal and intimate statement and with each new work bring different emotional message.
The knowledge of the past artistic practices is important to me. The multi coloured wall of the Fraser Canyon or the two- coloured
side of a tanker in Burrard Inlet is as important to me as Goya's reds and blacks.
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Dom Polonii Gallery, Krakow, Poland, 'From the Shore' series
2010 on line gallery,Polish literary magazine - Zeszyty Literackie - www.zeszytyliterackie.pl
2009 Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, Vancouver, B.C.
2006 Voltije Editions ltd. Gallery, Plougonven, Bretagne, France
2005 Cotes d'Armor Gallery, Olsztyn, Poland
2004 Seymour Art Gallery North Vancouver, B.C.,'Malcolm Lowry' series
2003 Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2002 BWA Gallery, Olsztyn, Poland, 'Eridanus' series
1999 Iron Works Studio Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
1997 Cotes d'Armor Gallery, Olsztyn, Poland
1997 Sandstone City Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
1995 Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, B.C., 'East of Main' series
1994 Dundarave Print Workshop, Vancouver, B.C.
1992 Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
1991 City Art Gallery, Olsztyn, Poland
1989 Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
1988 Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C., 'Conquerors' series
1988 Petley Jones Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
1987 Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, B.C.
1987 Station Art Gallery, White Rock, B.C.
1984 Dundarave Print Workshop, Vancouver B.C.
1984 Toni's Art Gallery, White Rock, B.C.