Kris Wlodarski Exhibition

News from Kris Wlordarski:

"Modern Images of Saints" – paintings by Kris Wlodarski

Showing from the 2nd until the 16th of June, 2008

Chelsea Library Gallery, 1st Floor

Chelsea Old Town Hall

Kings Rd, London

"Kris Wlodarski's series "Modern Images of Saints" places the relationship between the individual and the body at its epicentre: by reflecting upon the dynamics connecting transgression and taboo, the artist attempts to describe the isolation of those people who have chosen a sort of modern approach to ascetism in a quest for coming to terms with their identity.

"Wlodarski's paintings indeed look at the tradition of the 'still life' and approach mutated and mutilated bodies to create a composition of flesh, metal and body marks.The saints – in the artist's understanding – are bruised, pierced and scarred. Ascetism becomes a journey pointing towards the viscera, a quest that sees isolation and suffering as two of its key elements: to know oneself means first and foremost to attempt at reinventing one's body." -Albert Hofer