"On the threshold of infinity" Individual exhibition 2017

This collection of artworks by Andrzej Nowacki are experiments in seeing. The way he's deployed the colour, I can almost feel him at play, working and reworking the surface. The material is crucial here. Look at the textures of the paint, how it sits on the canvas in thin veils. The colours almost bleed into each other, don't they? This isn't about hiding the process. The artist wants us to see his thinking, his feeling, laid bare. Take that single, dark horizontal band cutting across one of the pieces – it’s so simple, yet it divides the canvas. It disrupts the rhythm, and that disruption makes us pause. Nowacki reminds me a little of Agnes Martin, but with a rawer, more visceral approach. Both artists use abstraction to explore something beyond the visible, to reach some kind of infinite. But where Martin is all about serenity, Nowacki is about tension, about that electric moment just before the storm.