Bohdan Wincenty Łoboda

Bohdan Wincenty Łoboda is a contemporary artist currently involved in painting, and in the past he designed scenography and dealt with colour woodcuts.
He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź.
He continued his education in postgraduate studies at the State Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw, at the Department of Directing of the Puppet Theatre in Białystok. This artistic journey later included designing scenography for performances in many State Puppet Theatres, including in Gdańsk, Poznań, Lublin, Będzin, Bielsko and Radom.

ABOUT CYCLES OF PAINTINGS AND GRAPHICS
His works often depict "fairy-tale" characters and situations taken from theatrical performances for which he created the scenography.

However, the subject matter of the works is quite diverse. The artist creates cycles (series) of paintings. The latest series of works are "Sport" and "Ballerinas".

Slightly older cycles include "Jazz", "Metropolis", "Animals" and "Dialogue" (women's conversations).
The latter cycle is associated with colour woodcuts created in the past (although also with theatrical experiences).
These woodcuts usually depicted two female faces, two personalities - a dialogue or conflict expressed with the most economical graphic means possible.
It is worth mentioning that individual cycles are assigned separate means of expression and painting techniques.
For example, the "Mertopolis" cycle used light reflections and had a very disciplined form.
In contrast, "Jazz" is a free improvisation in the world of painting styles and techniques, but always set on a solid base (as if the floor) and illuminated from above by stage spotlights.
In the "Ballerinas" cycle, the creator experiments with the so-called "mapping" of dancers' bodies and creates an unreal, as if "biological", disturbing space in the background.

ON PAINTING TECHNIQUES AND A CERTAIN MESSAGE
Thin, free, tangled lines are often present in the artist's paintings, but they are usually juxtaposed with geometric, disciplined forms.
A similar, contrasting combination also applies to texture; the artist combines areas of "thick", tangible texture with spaces of a glazed, as if "airy" character.
The artist's works are usually quite large acrylic paintings on canvas, although sometimes, when a very thick texture or collage is involved, the substrate is a board.
Finally, we can talk about some permanent determinants of the artist's work.

This is certainly figurative painting, so the subject is people and their mutual relations.It seems that the artist treats the canvas as a kind of stage on which he arranges and animates invented, unreal (although sometimes taken from the distant past) characters, performances, concerts, conversations and meetings.