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		BIOGRAPHY     PAINTINGS     TEXTS I WANTED THINGS TO SPEAK INSTEAD OF ME (EXCERPTS) JANUSZ KACZMARSKI [...] I have been driven to this way of art by my admiration for the possibilities existing in painting: enhancing the intensity of existence of what has been presented on the surface of paintings, and creating the suggestion of a new, "parallel" to the nature of life. This - as well as my contrariness gave rise to my choice of "realism", although this notion was not precise enough. [...] I wanted to watch the world independently, with my own eyes, and to show what I see in the way I understand it. For the reason that I had no trust in manifestos and programmes - being, at the same time, full of uncertainty -I preferred oblique statements than clear statements, I preferred to show than to convince. I immersed myself in a carefu study of the ordinary everyday life which surrounded me in the studio: a window, tops of houses and roofs outside the window, a radiator with a drying towel, shoes - they were my models. Problems of relations between them - light, mood, and the climates changeability - appeared. That was how my present private props room became established; I have used it for years and I still develop it. I extend it slowly and with its help gain more and more new areas of meaning. Emptiness, traces of human presence, coolness and incomprehensibility, invasion of strangeness into the privacy are the situations I suggest in my paintings and I believe they are not strange to contemporary man. [...] Indeed - work with nature is constantly letting in subsequent unexpected perspectives, and I do not think it possible to use up all the chances existing there. You may notice great things in what is small, and oddity in what seems to be ordinary. [...] Once, I wanted "things to speak instead of me". This wish comes true in the paintings I consider well done; however, it is not the things that speak but the whole painting and only when I manage to transform the intention into a form, because form is the main object of my painting endeavours.
		The 5th Polish Painting Forum - The Nature of Things - Orelec 2006