2222 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong / T + 852 2291 0006 / www.thecatstreetgallery.com
7 MAY - 13 JUNE, 2015
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D I R E C T O R ’ S F O R WA R D
The Cat Street Gallery is thrilled to announce the opening of Waldemar Kolbusz’s first solo exhibition ‘Aerial’ in Hong Kong. After resigning as an accountant in 1997 and a year of travelling, Kolbusz ended up driving solo in the deserts of Arizona and Nevada between Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon. This experience, along with inspired meetings and art in Portugal, New York and Tokyo that same year, lead to a monumental shift in thinking for him - from formula and exactness to freeness and expression. This new charge took hold not only on Kolbusz’s ideas of career and life but more specifically about how to practice his art. This is where Kolbusz’s ‘Freeway’ series of work began and continues. “I am interested in painting for the painting’s sake itself – abandoning previous representational work and it’s ideas and focusing only on colour and shape, responding to marks as they appear on my canvas. I try to generate an original awareness of colour, something which saturates our existence”. Perth based artist Waldemar Kolbusz creates non-representational paintings that resound with vibrant colour and pulsate with a particular form of abstract energy. Through his gestural mark-making and energetic application of paint, Kolbusz generates an expressive sense of immediacy in his work. Utilising the varied textural and aesthetic possibilities available in his chosen medium of oil paint, such as dribbling lines, hard edges, visible brushstrokes and the occasional presence of aerosol spray techniques, Kolbusz allows his compositions to develop from his intuitive engagement with the act of painting itself. The resulting works which resonate with vibrant colour and an organic sense of aesthetic balance, arouse a powerful emotive response in the viewer. Whilst being as expressive and spontaneous as possible, this new body of work also has purposefully included repeated scribbles and marks of past works, testing the relationship between considered and unexpected. Kolbusz’s work is represented in major national and international corporate collections He has developed an impressive exhibition history and exhibits in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia.
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CONTENTS
Page 4
Directors Forward
Page 6
Slipstream
Page 7
Overgrow
Page 8
Fandango
Page 9
Stargazer
Page 10
Lover
Page 11
Waylay
Page 12
Blueprint
Page 13
Floodlit
Page 14
Racket
Page 16
Calmer
Page 17
Gallop
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Slipstream Oil on linen, 183 x 122 cm, 2015 HKD 100,000
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Overgrow Oil on linen, 91 x 122 cm, 2015 HKD 52,000
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Fandango Oil on linen, 102 x 102 cm, 2015 HKD 50,000
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Stargazer Oil on linen, 102 x 102 cm, 2015 HKD 50,000
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Lover Oil on linen, 91 x 91 cm, 2015 HKD 45,000
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Waylay Oil on linen, 91 x 91 cm, 2015 HKD 45,000
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Blueprint Oil on linen, 91 x 91 cm, 2015 HKD 45,000
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Floodlit Oil on linen, 91 x 91 cm, 2015 HKD 45,000
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Racket Oil on linen, 66 x 183 cm, 2014 HKD 58,000
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Calmer Oil on linen, 102 x 102 cm, 2014 HKD 50,000
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Gallop Oil on canvas, 102 x 102 cm, 2013 HKD 50,000
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