ADAM HAWRYLKIEWICZ. Abstract composition, signed, marked Stockholm 07.

Image dimensions: 26 x 32 cm.

Adam Ancuta-Hawrylkiewicz is a Lithuanian-Swedish painter with a long and multifaceted artistic trajectory. After studying art and architecture in Poland, he moved to Sweden in 1971, where he soon established himself and came to participate in a series of collective exhibitions, including at Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm Art Fair and Münchenbryeriet. His art has also been exhibited internationally, including in Boston, Nice, Cape Town, Rome and Madrid. In 1993 he was awarded a scholarship from the Danish Arts Council.

His visual world is characterized by a visual purity where color is at the center. Drawing inspiration from the Bauhaus and artists such as Josef Albers, he explores the ability of colour to create space and depth. The viewer often encounters works in which the surface gradually opens up towards a three-dimensional experience — an optical and poetic shift that requires reflection. Small distortions in shape and angle act as artistic grips to break the purity of the strict geometry and add a subtle human presence.

In the auction's painting, the contrast between the heavy black and the brilliant blue painting gives a tangible spatial effect, as if the colors were penetrating inwards or outwards from the canvas. The red line acts as a visual pulse, an interruption that causes the eye to stop and experience a subtle warping. Precisely these slight shifts from the strictly right-angled are typical of the artist; avoiding the strict abstract and introducing a human, non-perfect, dimension into the work.