The Date
Wiktor Dyndo
November 25 – February 24, 2023
The works depicting fragments of landscape, contrary to the genre, present themselves not in a horizontal format, but in a vertical one, which is characteristic for portraits, and are divided in the middle by a date written with digits (day) and letters (month). By today's standards, the paintings are realised with extraordinary attention, with the artist carefully rendering details such as the play of light, or the perspective. To paraphrase Kandinsky, anything could be reduced to a digit, a letter and a surface. First of all, we see the date written in English. Some dates are self-explanatory and refer to well-known events, others were associated with the first news programmes not so long ago, but hardly anyone remembers them today. There are also dates that tell us nothing, but should they? Twelve large paintings, measuring 200 x 150 cm, are like sentinels of memory, striking the eye with dates painted in white paint.
