ROBERT SZCZERBOWSKI

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.