Allen MACK (b. 2001), Solaris; 2021

Oil, spray, canvas: 150 x 120 cm
Signed, dated, and described on the back: Solaris/ Allen Mack '2021

Currently a student of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the University of Arts in Poznan.As of 2019, a member and co-founder of the art collective MZS Młodzi Zdolni Seksowni and co-founder of Galeria Piec in Poznan.
Allen Mack's artistic activity, especially in the field of painting, points to the dualisms present in the world: utopia and dystopia, past and future, man and machine, organic and technology. He does not shy away from pop-cultural references, portraying the characters populating the collective imagination of the younger generation and placing their images in new contexts. Allen Mack raises topical issues about the condition of the modern world and society.
In the shadow of the crises bombarding the world, we think intensely about returning to the foundations of life - to local resources, to nature, to nurturing relationships with others, to improvisation, also to new sources of magic. We ponder the possibilities of the human senses. The pessimistic climate of our time, in the shadow of the environmental catastrophe, the coronavirus, the war in Ukraine, all this makes rationalism fail, makes man helpless. Posthumanism gives much food for thought. It asks what we can learn from plants, animals, the elements. Crisis is an opportunity for change. Change asks for reflection.
"Allen Mack"