exerpt from a review by Professor Ewa Pełka-Wierzbicka:
Through the use of a limited palette and dynamic geometric forms, Piotr Korzeniowski creates a recognizable spatial structure in his work. This formal approach highlights the transient nature of painting as a medium, creates an unique harmony with the outside world, and suggests the influence of Zen painting. The attraction of Korzeniowski's work is the result of tension emerging from an apparently calm setting. This follows an attempt to describe the oneness of nature and of the soul; one of the fundamental truths of personhood.
The Zen master Hakuin (1685-1769) maintained that art uncovers otherwise inaccessible universal aspects of the human soul. The fundamental characteristic of world described according to this philosophy is the praise of the moment- the only permanent spot within the whirl of change and impermanence. I have perceived these characteristics in the work of Piotr Korzeniowski. The fluidity of his structures, which recall op-art impressions of movement and offer the real possibility of changing the modules which together create each piece, enable different interpretations to coexist in each painting. Despite their abstract nature, the works' compositions lead our imagination into a more tactile realm that gives us the feeling of experiencing with nature.
Korzeniowski is an artist constantly in search of, and in the process of building, his own artistic vocabulary. He avoids more popular forms of easily accessible commentary, regarding the virtual world, with the help of his own clear and distinct message. He has the bravery to translate his unique visions into an original pictorial language that challenges the more descriptive fashions of the day. His minimal use of colour creates a subtle monochromatic scale of lights and darks; in one of his statements, he declares "that which is best in art depends on limitation."
