Cezary Poniatowski
Cezary Poniatowski, photo. N.Maliakos
CEZARY PONIATOWSKI (b. 1987, lives and works in Warsaw, Poland/ Crete, Greece) is an interdisciplinary artist who graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He began
with printmaking, transitioned to painting, and now primarily explores installation, sculpture, and site-specific interventions, employing various forms of expression. This shift to three-dimensional work has enabled him to delve into the intersection of meticulous craft, design, and unconstrained creative freedom.
Poniatowski's artistic practice navigates between the familiar and the unsettling, often exploring the materiality, identity, and memories associated with objects. He transforms
everyday materials and historical references to evoke ambiguity, discomfort, and thought-provoking associations. His work draws inspiration from cinematic nostalgia, retrotopia,
tribalism, and the polarization of contemporary societies, reflecting on introversion in an age of emotional externalization.