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Dorothee Liebscher's paintings depict imaginary views of architectural and landscape spaces, which often portray run-down, abandoned buildings, partly overgrown by vegetation. For the artist, who lives and works in Leipzig, the investigation into spatial themes holds central significance. The viewer adopts the image protagonist role and experiences the architectural structures. Insinuated landscape views, as well as a deep horizon, convey a great sense of depth. This results in thoughtfully constructed spaces that interpret reality subjectively and reveal to the viewer a hidden world that always offers new mysteries and raises questions. The paintings feature a specific color palette and exist in a field of tension between nostalgia and utopia. Partially surreal pictorial worlds emerge on the canvas. Through the intertwining of reality, memory, and fiction, spatial compositions emerge that invite the viewer to embark on his or her own exploration of an unfamiliar, yet at the same time seemingly familiar world.

"Condensation is the starting point of my painting."

- Leszek Skurski

This guiding principle forms the foundation upon which Leszek Skurski builds his visual worlds. His journey began at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, where, at the age of just 22, he was honored with the Polish State Prize for Painting. Over the decades, he has perfected a signature style that moves between the fleeting and the enduring, and today is recognized as Neo-Impressionism. His works are the result of heightened attentiveness and a persistent commitment to decisions that, once placed on the canvas, must stand on their own.

In these compositions, white becomes the true protagonist. It is not an empty background, but a pulsating, expansive surface that lays bare every movement and mark without protection. What remains in this space has passed the test of reduction. Skurski’s figures, often caught in waiting or transition, do not embody mere actions but a quiet, existential presence. By letting the faces recede in favor of posture, the viewer’s gaze is freed to perceive a being that transcends the individual.

It is this deliberate omission of detail that conjures a calm in which time loses its usual pace. Fleeting moments of daily life, memories of what has been seen, and deep sensations merge here until they coalesce into a single, concentrated situation. A space emerges in which the everyday loses its casualness and acquires a timeless validity. What remains is the essential, a silent and powerful assertion of the moment that resonates far beyond the edges of the canvas.