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Press Release
Desire, sensuality, flesh, original sin, salvation, evil, lust, disgust, wound, necrosis, decomposition, life and death. Human emotions, fears and appetites, twisting around in the minds. Heavenly delights and earthly tortures put on show in John Zilewicz' paintings. Visiting his current exhibition, we get ENTANGLED between CONCUPISCENE and GANGRENE, fleshy matters with explicit insinuations. Fanned out soft structures, body tissues, bright colors shading off to dark cavities, mysterious voids and osseous formations.
This work was conceived from my interest and familiarity with the figure. I wanted to offer my response to the complex living machine, particularly the human anatomy. Spawned from a central twist. My images deal with grotesque, entangled masses of fleshy matter. Constantly pulling, twisting and stretching, trying to fight their way free from the confines of their captor.With his paintings, John Zilewicz leads us into the convolutions of the brain, revealing another secret human anatomy, an inner world, where desires and fears take control. And he takes us back in time reviving the dark Middle Ages, where Christianity and pest reigned. The conflict between sin and reason occupied canvases and altar screens terrifying people with dramatic scenes and unsparing images. Dutch painter Bosch created his nightmare entitled The Garden of Earthly Delights in 1504, Surrealists celebrated dream and nightmare in their artwork in the early 20 c. The conflict, the twist between reason and desire, pleasure and punishment explored and explained, but never solved by psychoanalysis, inspired many artists to drastic imagery. But instead of pitiless descriptions of these subjects, John Zilewicz chooses another way. His figures and formations unfold beautiful sceneries of colors and forms. They oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Although painted and thus plain, his compositions are particularly sculptural. The smooth surfaces and perforations are reminding of the sculptural work of Henry Moore or Jean Arp. Both worked on the abstraction of the human body, but focussed on the outward shape. John Zilewicz shows us the complex inner shape of man, the abysmal beauty of our private Garden of Delight. John Zilewicz currently teaches Visual Arts at Niles West High School.
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