Tobiasz Kenio

Born in 1979 in Gorlice, lives in Warsaw. His name is Paweł Pecuszok. He mainly deals with painting, medicine and classical singing. He works professionally as a doctor and at the same time as an active singer, chamber musician and opera singer on stages and in recordings. These three entities can be defined as three types of art concentrated in one person, reflecting the nature of the creator, his horizons, temperament and sensitivity. This time a painter appears under the artistic pseudonym Tobiasz Kenio. Since he is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at the Medical University of Bialystok (2004) and the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music (2010) in the solo singing class of the outstanding singer Urszula Trawińska-Moroz, he ambitiously combines his professional medical and musical activities with a passion for painting. He regularly appears in chamber concerts and solo recitals, and participates as a soloist in opera and oratorio works. He was a scholarship holder and laureate of artistic grants from the city and the Podlasie province several times. He has been interested in painting for a long time, and has been painting for several years using oil and mixed techniques, oil / acrylic, relief. She creates varied, exceptionally "own" images in an unforced, pattern-free style. Considering himself to be an abstractionist, Kenio does not represent any current, nor does he refer to any schools in his paintings. The perverse use of colors and structures does not allow the work of Tobias Kenio to be classified into a specific category, which is why his painting is based on surprise and unpredictability. The images of Tobias are usually devoid of any illustrative features, and the artist does not try to imitate nature, objects or human figures. By using various means of expressive expression, such as colors and contrasts, he makes it impossible to define his work - apart from a few exceptions - with a single theme or a specific leitmotif. They are highly expressive and fanciful, thanks to which the author's emotion is expressed in the semantic form of the work. Large image formats additionally strengthen this emotion. What draws attention is the mysterious, or rather understated, character or message of a large part of this collection. Although the author sometimes suggests or guides the recipient with the title, we should not be tempted to interpret his works unambiguously, especially since some titles contain a clear element of irony or self-irony. A lot is happening in abstract visions, although apparently nothing is happening - the viewer's imagination is certainly exposed to stimuli of great power. at the same time, remarkable precision and meticulousness, especially in geometric compositions, where a cascade of figures (or solids) falling into the abyss bordering on obsession creates an individual, quite free interpretation in the audience. Flat images of triangles, seen with other eyes or through a different prism, may appear to be three-dimensional pyramids. These figure abysses (oblivions) represent an intriguing interplay of colors, light and shadow. Other abstractions are dominated by a jungle of colors, but the jungle is usually friendly and tame. There are only a few different, more illustrative and close to realism canvases in this exhibition, with scenes of city-street Warsaw at night (the bus line 504 probably functions in the capital), which in this case brings to mind a nice association with primitivism. However, there is one feature that connects all these paintings: they are struck everywhere by the bold use of expressive intense colors and contrast, as well as fighting or dialogical colors.