Gallery SPEAK FOR
Closes Saturday
London-based, Polish artist Przemek Sobocki (www.psobocki.prp.pl) started in fashion and interior design, working with the likes of fashion designer Helmut Lang and fashion label Miu Miu, a division of Prada. Most recently he collaborated with Richio Suzuki on an exhibition for the 35th anniversary of London's Soho Adidas store.
Now, though, Sobocki is concentrating on illustration work, and his images have been published in magazines in the United Kingdom, Poland, the United States and Japan (in Comet and the first issue of Krash). In 2005 he recieved the prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum Illustration Award for a piece titled "Touch" .
Largely influenced by the photography and films of directors such as Krzytof Kieslowski ("Red," "The Double Life of Veronique"), and his roots in fashion and interior design, the images on display at "the STORY of HER," his current exhibition at Gallery SPEAK FOR in Daikenyama (www.abahouse.co.jp), are original and thoughtful prints and animated projections. Portraits based largely on true and fictional stories of women, his illustrations show a sensitivity towards his subjects that manifests itself in impeccable attention to both sartorial detail and the settings in which they are placed. Within his images he intelligently expresses the inner character of these various women, allowing viewers to observe the extremes of emotion that we experience in our own lives.
