Polygonal crystals, effluent, amoeba-like shapes, vivid, contrasting colors, imbued surfaces – these are the characteristics of the unique painting of Tomasz Piars. The unique world of his abstract works is at the same time reminiscent of microscopic images of biology and mineralogy and of the sight of fragmented rocks of the interstellar space – making his art a borderline between fantasy and rigorous composition.
Tomasz Piars was born in Poland, but graduated from the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Budapest – he has been living in Hungary since 1992. After graduating from the University of Fine Arts, it became certain to him that he would settle down in Budapest and pursue his artistic career there. In addition to his artistic activities, as a cultural manager he also exhibits the work of other artists, has worked as a curator at the Polish Institute and currently organizes exhibitions of Hungarian and foreign artists in his own studio apartment (Art Salon Contemporary).
Piars thinks in terms of series. In his opinion, a pictorial idea, which in his case usually starts from the development of structural contrasts, can never be realized in one given work, he always further thinks about the initial idea, better analyses the possibilities and creates more and more new versions.
"Chrystals of Memory" captures the feeling of how memories of the past come together in our minds. There are certain, stable points, but there are also vague layers, which together form a fabric that represents the relationship of the remembering person to the past, and thus their identity. In his paintings, Piars deliberately creates systems that can be perceptibly continued in the plane beyond the frame of the image, so that they continue to take shape in our imagination.
"Liquid Spaces" and "Soft Impact" are series of other compositions on paper in which a single "angular" element or geometric pattern is in dialogue with a more freely treated group of forms floating in space in front of it. In these series Piars was intrigued by the contradiction between spatiality and planarity.
The pieces in the "Pointing the Spatial" series are made up of a multitude of circular elements and lines connecting them, evoking the complexity of molecular structures and their depiction possibilities. The possibility of connections is infinite, their spatial arrangement represents new and new variations, which here, like the metaphors of network diagrams, diagrams of conceptual maps, represent only a multiplicity of abstract, contentless connections.
Finally, the title of the series "The New Alchemy" refers to art as well, which, based on creativity and imagination, can create imaginary and organic systems on canvas and paper that appear in his art as a creative force, a new visionary natural order. Tomasz Piars' vision of the world follows a unique path.
Zsolt Petrányi