Dominik Sokolowski

Previously exhibited at the Shanghai World Expo, the Musée d’Art Contemporain of Baie-Saint-Paul and the European Contemporary Art Fair in Strasbourg, Dominik Sokolowski is a painter originating from Poland with three decades of artistic practice.

Sokolowski was born in 1976 and came to Canada in 1989, where he then graduated from the Université du Québec en Outaouais in the Arts and Design program. He experiments with a playful set of media, integrating found objects in superimposed layers of modular shapes, that weave together to create an overall effect of “shifting”. It takes shape in successive stages, in superimposed layers, by repetition of planes, colors, the use of impastos, brushing and wiping. This intricate network constitutes the recognizable and timeless "architecture" of the artist.

Constantly toying with structure, assembly and disassembly, the artist’s evolution is characterized by his obsession with continuity. While Sokolowski often repeats motifs within a series, the symbolism of each painting is always unique. However, Sokolowski’s constructions are not always meant to hold meaning: the universe they belong to is a place where time stops and starts, where new meanings are created with every viewer.