The Camuno Museum in Breno ( Lombarty) is located in a historic mansion from the late 15th century; houses a prestigious collection of old art.

In dialogue with the past, an exhibition of the latest paintings by Andrzej Borowski has been prepared there. At the same time, a site-specific installation is presented inside the church of St. Antony in Breno. Thanks to the support of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Milan, the event will be accompanied by the promotion of an extensive publication containing over a hundred reproductions of the artist’s works and literary texts translated by Linda del Sarto.

Andrzej Borowski’s artistic journey began with his fascination with the works of Pierre Bonnard and then Anselm Kiefer. For years, the artist was looking for his form of expression. He created new syntheses to take them back to their roots. In his art, Borowski is trying to give the viewer a metaphysical experience. The artist works with space because it is the basic category of describing the world, containing illusion and reality, past and present. “It is space that gives rise to forms.” The creative act itself is triggered by emotion and memory. The latter is sometimes incomplete and still balances between imagination and actual experience.

The church of Saint Anthony in Breno is an excellent stage for presenting the artist’s latest works. The space of history becomes the space of a work of art, and the faded traces of the distant past create a mood that feeds the imagination. The eccentric figures in Romanino’s frescoes will come to life again against the backdrop of Borowski’s deserted landscapes, in a mirage between memory and fantasy. We will meet here in whole cycles of vast worlds built with the help of colour and light. These paintings are festive, although maintained in compositional rigour. They are accompanied by a flash that remains in the subconscious.

The installation consisting of forty-five square works whose main character is the sign and colour, like a path full of riddles, will lead the viewer straight into the transcendental dimension, inviting them to explore its essence. There are different visual hinsts present: Indian roses of Jaipur city. The red dress of Madonna della Misericordia from a painting by Piero della Francesca. Frozen impressions, reminiscences from the past. The memory of prototypes, a network of associations, a wealth of references. Distant clues, unclear signs, ambiguous clues -they translate into Barlumi – a mystical conviction about the existence of the “other world”, suggested by art.

Andrzej Borowski- Barlumi
curator : Zyta Misztal von Blechinger