120 pages 16 x 23 cm Language: English Hardback Publisher: Hakus 2013
Bartek (Pener) Swiatecki's work mixes abstraction and graffiti. High art and youth culture, modernism and skateboarding.
"His images are based around geometric groupings and angular forms which reference futuristic architectural design. The apparent slickness of Swiatecki's productions is often at odds with the decayed settings the works are placed in. The visual language used in these pieces gives a glimpse in to a brave new world of graffiti and fine art cross over. It's a world where graffiti writers are as happy to quote from De Stijl as they are Wu Tang. As well as painting, Swiatecki's practice includes sculpture and installation. His sculptures are three dimensional workings of the paintings that carve triangular and pyramidal forms into real word space. Similarly, his installations contact together to make helixscapes of networked lines in public settings. In all of this work, outside of the art historical and graffiti elements, there is sense of the mapping of the digital world. Swiatecki's is re-humanising a reality which should exist on a computer monitor. And this is perhaps there greatest paradox. A graffiti writer making landscape paintings from his time in virtual reality". - Cedar Lewisohn
