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Art (Artur) Golacki is a multidisciplinary artist working with traditional and digital mediums as well as installations and assemblages. He was born in Wroclaw, Poland where he also studied and accomplished a Master Degree in Fine Arts.
While studying he co-created art group Luxus which was recognised as part of the 80-ties “new wave” art movement in Poland. Recently the group’s touring exhibition visited several European museums.
For past thirty years he lived and worked in United Kingdom, participating in many art exhibitions worldwide, please refer to updated CV at www.artgolacki.com
He prefer relaxed and playful approach to art, the way he admired from artists like Max Ernst or contemporaries like Damien Hirst. There is no need to create a recognisable style, but to transform any available means to deliver the intended message with a spacious room for interpretations.
His artistic practice is divided into several ongoing projects, sometimes formally unrelated where the only consistency required is a high quality of execution.
Art Golacki’s photographs of his one-off assemblages question the perception of reality and the limits of imagination and intuition. The artist aims to reposition common subjects or environments, evoking a reflective state of contemplation in which habits of labelling and patterning degrade.
Most of his latest projects are dedicated to the artistry of Old Masters in hope of restoring the natural continuity and simplicity somehow lost in self-indulgent art of today.
In Golacki’s enigmatic Still Live project, man-made and organic objects are covered in black paint and arranged to mimic a classical memento mori. The process renders many objects unidentifiable, and thus visually equal, creating a primal, intuitive scene devoid of arbitrary learned judgments and categorical labels.