Agata Nowosielska „Into Baroque”

The multithreaded contemporary world is like a focus in a camera, through which it is observed. The reason behind the Baroque’s re-entry is, that it tells stories, which are complex; the structure of contemporaneity is like Deleuze’s notion of fold.  The book by Mieke Bal (Quoting Caravaggio.Preposterious history) reveals clear references to this figure by various artists (e.g. Ken Aptekar). A fold is a composed multiplicity – multidimensional; it is the present day: irregular like a baroque pearl, crooked like the face of Caravaggio’s Medusa representing plentitude and the fading of the consumerist world on the one hand, while on the other it appears like a spectacle torn by hybrid wars seen on TV screens.

By interpenetrating one another, Baroque and Camp are for me the points of reference in painting. I like Jeff Koon’s-like exaggeration, artificiality of baroque interiors, I admire multiplication and theatrical fakeness. (I like Haendel’s music and the figures of Freddy Mercury and Kate Bush, which exemplify the fusion of both terms in musical creation).

The Into Baroque exhibition is about exaggeration and artificiality; it is a show of consumption abounding in gold and ornaments, which interpenetrate with death concealed behind decomposing matter. This painting is lined with camp stylistics and perverse forms.