Tomasz Setowski-the next exhibition.

Nadejscie wiosny - Tomasz Setowski ( the Arrival of the Spring)

For the 'lovers' of Tomasz Setowski's art, I have some new information.

The next his big exposition is in Dubai, in April. This is a great occasion to visit Dubai, the most hot and hip and sky-scraping place of this moment.

For those under us who are not exceptional rich but still would like to see the work of mr. Setkowski, I have a nice announcement. There is a great possibility in Poland to see his work and during the whole year round. Namely, in Częstochowa mr. Sętowski has own Gallery with his own paintings, of course. I am planning to be there at the end of May. I hope to see you there too.

Here the address, the name of the gallery and the phone/email.

Muzeum Wyobraźni - Galeria autorska Tomasza Sętowskiego
ul.Oławska 2
Częstochowa 42-200

tel: 034 366 66 28
email: muzeum_wyobrazni@O2.pl

Tomasz Setowski

I've just got back from my Christmas holiday in Poland. My partner Jim and I spent the first night in the Marriott in Warsaw. We arrived in the late evening, and while searching for a restaurant in the Marriott to celebrate Jim's birthday I noticed some very unusual paintings on the walls. They were fantasy art paintings, it was incontrovertible. They name of the artist was Tomasz Setowski. I had never heard about him before this particular moment in the Marriott in Warsaw. They were paintings he created between 2000 and 2007. Some of the works have previously been displayed in New York, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and elswhere. He is a very original, extraordinary, unique, surrealist Polish painter and I have never heard about him. Not good!

And he is very famous, actually. The next day in the morning I saw more of his works hanging on the second floor in the Marriott Hotel. He is a great artist, not doubt about this, but I missed something in his paintings. His imagination is so cold, so far-away. With Hieronymus Bosch or Peter Breughel you can feel the fear or the grimness or the grotesque. But here in Sętowski's paintings I couldn't find any emotion. They were very individual fantasy paintings only maybe understood by their creator. But this is only my feeling; Tomasz Sętowski is a great painter of the magical realism school.