Ecce Homo
Ecce Homo

Summary/Abstract: In 2004, Regional Museum in Toruñ organized a retrospective exhibition of Bogdan Kwaoeniewski’s art-work. Anna Kroplewska-Gajewska was the curator of the show. The artist concentrates on the humanistic and religious themes. He is an optimistic artist who likes shows the murky abyss of the earthly existence, nevertheless, while considering the primeval void or chaos before the Creation, he tries to find the Ghost, who offers the artist (and ourselves) the gift of proportion and measurement. Kraoeniewski paints, for example, naked people walking towards the Purgatory. He seems to be quoting from St. John of the Cross and from Master Eckhart. He knows that the white color is considered by Hindu scholars as the symbol of mourning. He likes to paint the human figures against dark background. they are show as if trying to escape the drama of black rectangular spheres and other geometric forms. I believe that Kraoeniewski follows some ideas of Kierkegaard, Sartre, Camus, and Kafka. He often uses such colors as the black, graphite-gray, white and blue colors. Sparingly, he adds red and green colors. His work can be considered in terms of the allegorical drama, the characters of which personify abstractions, such as Vice and Virtue, Everyman, etc.

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