mixed media, canvas, 135 × 165 cm

purchased in 2022

The acquisition reflects one of the artist’s experimental paths, where the canvas initially served quite literally as a notepad — a space in which visual information merges with (now concealed) text or numerical symbols. In the entire Unspoken series, the original texts — personal dark tautologies, strong opinions, expressive outbursts or classified ads — were painted over using gestural strokes. The only remaining visible trace on the painting is the compositional structure of these erasures, which allude to the former textual layer. Through this conceptual and process-oriented approach, Rodek pushes the boundaries of painting’s semiotic foundations. The energy once carried by the words remains only subliminally present — transformed into a visual puzzle of form.

Translation created with the assistance of AI (ChatGPT).