Each visit to this showing well repays the effort. The Athenaeum site at 190 South Roselle Road, frankly, looks like a large grey barn, which is perhaps a bit of whimsy on the part of its architects, but it affords ample space for fine art, and allows time and tranquility in which to enjoy it. Any overview, however, must be partial and selective, even with every effort to assess all objectively. May start with Leszek Wyczolkowski, a Polish-born peintre et graveur , who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Ontario College of Art, Canada.
Genesis does indeed seem a surrealist ideal of biological generation.
In Genesis , the central focus is a globular mass composed of numerous smaller spheres which vary within a noticeable range. This collective mass is anchored to a thin, relatively uniform ground by a beaded tether. Whether all or none, Wyczolkowski's Genesis imparts a visceral intimation of seed proceeding into flower. Viewers in the gallery noted how the focus caught the eye immediately, and how they subsequently followed the composition down the tether. The content seems either a gathering about an attractor, or a history of organic evolution.