The work’s three letter title, SSS, refers to the sound made by a snake. The protagonists of the work are Strzemiński, Stażewski, and the music band, Siekiera. The author admitted: “I have always wondered what would happen if they all got together.”
Tomasz Partyka’s work often features intricately constructed collages that reveal the author’s fascination with art history, which is, nevertheless, accompanied by a particular kind of irreverence that draws on daring attempts at a new reading of canonical works of art.
O artystce
Tomasz Partyka, born 1978, is a painter and filmmaker. Between 2000–2005, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, where he attended the painting studio of Prof. Jerzy Kałucki and Prof. Wojciech Łazarczyk, as well as the video studio of Marek Wasilewski. Associated with the Le Guern Gallery in Warsaw, he lives and works in Warsaw. His most important solo exhibitions, among others, include: Bęc, Bęc, Galeria Le Guern, Warsaw; Georgia on my Mind, Galeria Pies, Poznań; Films and Paintings, Les Complices, Zurich; Painting, Galeria Kont, Lublin; Born and Bred, Galeria Le Guern, Warsaw.