The project Kombozycje plays for the highest stakes, as liberal capitalism produces tools that amplify atomization and polarization, motivating particular interests, exhausting exploitation, and total rivalry among groups and individuals. Conflict societies hand power to representatives of violent masculinity, yet the future of life on earth is a non-zero-sum game, in which all participating parties either lose or win, which is why the skills of conversation, cooperation, and community actions are among the most important competencies of the future.

The Flower Shop of Graphics conducts a small sabotage within the system of egos using the artistic tools at its disposal. By stimulating the emergence of trans-individual co-works, it creates a testing ground for a future that, if it is to come, must arise as a collective work.

— For the latest edition of the compositional project, the Flower Shop of Graphics invited two painters with a twenty-year friendship. Both artists operate in different thematic areas. While Rafał Wilk is mainly interested in nature, the landscape after humans, and plants occupying the space left by him, Zbiok Czajkowski's attention is directed towards cultural products, social rituals, and the capturing of observed masks. Instead of generating a single work, the artists attempt to create an equivalent series of dialoguing images. Therefore, a composition is not a single realization, but an entire exhibition. Each subsequent object is created as a response to the previous one. The exhibition is a kind of dynamic conversation, where what happens between the images is always the most interesting.

Compositions Rafał WILK & ZBIOK Czajkowski
Opening: December 12, from 7 PM to 9 PM
Flower Shop of Graphics, ul. Smulikowskiego 6/8, second courtyard, basement.
During the opening, there will be a live screen printing action, details below in the text.
The exhibition can be viewed until the end of January 2025, by prior appointment. Event on fb. We invite you.

At the exhibition, compositions will emanate from paintings and screen prints.

Composition (eng. combo — combination), a collaboratively created work by at least two artistic individuals on one substrate. Cooperation can be difficult but is worth the future. Following the iconic screen printing compositions of Warhol & Basquiat. Or from the Polish garden, the recent actions of the duo Matecki & Ciecierski, Gomulicki & Kubik, which are an excellent example of a co-work freed from the shackles of ego in favor of co-creation.