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FRACTAL PAINTINGS

Exhibition at the XX1 Gallery in Warsaw in 2003, and then at the AT Gallery in Poznań in the same year under the title "Algorithms", where a selection of works was presented.
X axis
Diptych (Matrix) part 1
Diptych part 2
Sierpinski
The Mandelbrot Set
Borderline
Mandelbrot evolution
Bifurcation
detail-Diptych
Algorithm 1
Algorithm 2
Algorithm 3
Sierpinski Triangle
mandel4
Pixel
Mandelfn
Fragment
default factor
imaginary corner
cursor error
flip back
test001
test003
test002
Event Horizon

Fractal paintings (2000-2003) is a hybrid of painting and technology, created from the idea of exploring virtual reality, which appeared as a new dimension along the digital era at the fall of the last century. Szczerbowski presents geometric structures composed of pixels painted in oil on canvas. His paintings "imitate" computer graphics using traditional means. He is inspired by the similarity of forms created as a result of purely mathematical operations and using a machine to astonishing motifs, often psychedelic, known from the sphere of human imagination, which have previously manifested themselves in, among others, art and religion.

The artist calls his works "cybercanvases" and adds: "A machine, calculating a fractal, thinks digitally. A human, painting a fractal, thinks analogue." He emphasizes that the most important for him is to drag in these virtual structures into the real world. In this process takes part a subjective factor related to an individual gesture, a sense of color, an error, etc.

©  Robert Szczerbowski 2026 

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