05.05.16, The new composition I 2016

Andrzej Nowacki's "05.05.16, The new composition I" is this wild optical ride, where the image appears to vibrate, swim, or flicker. I can only imagine Nowacki, brush in hand, maybe listening to some wild tunes, as he laid down each stripe with such precision. Each color choice, each stripe width, would affect the whole thing. It's a mad science experiment, but with feeling! You feel the painting, the making, you know? The texture becomes almost hypnotic. When you look at these squares, they’re less about what they represent and more about how they make you feel. Like a really good Agnes Martin, or even Bridget Riley. Artists are always in conversation, right? Nowacki's offering his own riff on perception and colour theory. Painting is this ongoing experiment, this big, messy conversation where we keep asking, "How do we see? How do we feel? How can we make marks that matter?”