WALDEMAR KOLBUSZ

In 1999 Vogue Living hailed Waldemar Kolbusz “Design Aficionado” and purchased a piece for its own collection. Since then his work has been hotly collected by award-winning architects and interior designers, hip hoteliers & restaurateurs and can be found in numerous international corporate collections including KPMG, IBM, Clayton Utz, the Insurance Commission of WA, CapitaLand Residential Limited and Singapore Technologies. Kolbusz's artworks truly seduce the viewer. His large canvases in oils combine rich colours which are often butted against deep, dark-stained backdrops. Kolbusz layers his colors in luminous glazes rather than applying them alla prima. This may account for the subtle modulations he achieves with hues that seem to overlap like filmy veils, creating a smoky sense of depth, even while his bold rectangular forms hold fast to the picture plane, asserting its two dimensionality. Waldemar Kolbusz has been able to extend the lessons of the Abstract Expressionists and turn them to his own ends in order to forge a visual vocabulary altogether his own. Geometry and gesture converge dynamically in his canvases to achieve a vigorous synthesis that is at once sensual and architectural.