“The State is one of many projects that I have completed over the last 20 years. Several of them were created using various media and materials. In some of them there was no painting at all or it appeared as one of many elements, and at that time I was painting all the time. Where does my need to create objects or even entire installations come from? Some motifs that are created in two dimensions, on canvas or on paper, are so important to me that they come back as motifs to work on. They’re demanding a repeat story. Every once in a while, two dimensions aren’t enough. That’s when I reach the third dimension. This is how sculptures and objects are created.”
Things inside me. Interview with Adam Mazur / Postmedium
“There are motives to which Slezkin remains faithful for many years (or which haunt him for a long time, demanding to explore and deal with them again and again). The oldest of them, like the form of the black arm, which was once submerged in the crimson monolith One / The One, go back to its roots in the 1980s. The artist organizes his current works in cycles, which are a kind of typologies of existential problems addressed in the space of painting.”
I didn’t dream anything by Stach Szabłowski / Szum