Polish Contemporary artist and muralist Robert Proch was recently in Glendale, California where he painted a mural at the Brand Library & Art Center.
Titled In Women We Trust and curated by Thinkspace Projects, the mural is part of a takeover at the Brand Library & Art Center in occasion of NEXUS II, a group exhibition curated by Thinkspace projects featuring a curated selection of international artists belonging to a New Contemporary Art Movement: Kathy Ager, Liz Brizzi, Stephanie Buer, Adam Caldwell, EINE, Evoca1, Benjamin Garcia, Molly Gruninger, Stella Im Hultberg, Leon Keer, Huntz Liu, Natalia Rak, Joanne Nam, Laurence Vallieres, Cinta Vidal, and The Perez Bros.
Owner of a unique picturesque language composed of many stylistic expressions, Proch’s work consists of to intricate mini narratives that examine the modern human condition focusing on aspects of motion and processing taken from the urban environment creating beautifully deconstructed and futuristic snapshots of reality. Just like this one, featuring the image of two women; reclined and floating in a deconstructed environment, that make the whole seem like we are observing a dream unfolding in front of our eye.
NEXUS II runs through January 11, 2019 at Brand Library & Art Center located on 1601 W Mountain St, Glendale, CA 91201.
About the artist
Polish artist Robert Proch is a muralist, painter, and animator known for dynamic paintings that loosen the representational towards the abstract. His works at times, near cubist or futurist deconstruction of figure and space, remain grounded in a language of relatable, albeit stylized, realism. As emotionally charged as they are formally complex, Proch dis-sembles and reconstitutes shifting spatial planes through the elemental reduction of form and movement to its most essential geometries and fragments. Interested in this graphic distillation of motion, Proch has studied the technical reduction of form extensively and works primarily from imagination rather than photographic resources. This freedom of stylization evolved early on for Proch, when, working as a graffiti artist on lettering, he became increasingly expert at abstract composition. Now the urban landscape and its inhabitants are the artist’s primary source of inspiration, incorporating its architectures and daily activities into arresting scenes of controlled chaos.
Author: Fran
Founder and editor of Urbanite. Street Art lover who after the finishing her MA thesis on the Mexican and Norwegian muralist movement in the 1920-50s, developed a fascination for street art and graffiti that eventually led to collaborations with different art blogs, including the creation of this one.
