Album of works by Rafal Bujnowski – one of the most important and recognizable contemporary Polish painters. More than 130 paintings and other works selected from 15 years of artistic practice, reproduced carefully and accompanied by short, personal comments made by art critics, curators, collectors and artists. Bujnowski’s works are commented by Christian Boros, Adam Budak, Marek Krajewski, Marcin Maciejowski, Lynda Morris, Joanna Mytkowska, Maria Anna Potocka, Monika Szewczyk and many more.
The title of the present book – The Politics of Paintings – pertains to the multiple and multidimensional painterly strategies the artist uses, and above all, to a dilemma with which Bujnowski continually grapples: To what extent can a painter’s work be verified by criteria beyond those of art?