Pejzaż z dna oka
2015
olej na płótnie, [2x] 175 x 175 cm
The gleam of the flash, flames licking at scraps of paper, a light at the end of a tunnel—the blinding effect returns obessively, harmonizing with the remarkable diptych representing the ‘Eye Fundus Landscape’ (2015). The view of dry branches against the sky, referring, in turn, to the earlier series titled ‘Death of a Partisan’ (‘Śmierć partyzanta’, 2005), transformed into a diagnostic image of the eye, which manifests signs of illness. Rogalski touches upon fundamental issues tied with the act of seeing and of creating a work of art, entering, at the same time, into the anatomy of the eye and its metaphysical properties—a landscape painting of a crown of tree branches against the sky is part of this idea.