I'd recently mentioned Tom Pfannerstill's work in a previous blog post, but now I have found yet more amazing trompe l'oeil work. The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is showing paintings and videos by Wojciech Gilewicz in the Front Room that create illusory effects with various elements of architecture and landscape. The videos document the addition or removal of paintings into various settings for which they were produced, including outdoor landscapes, urban architecture, museum displays and junk heaps.
Like Pfannerstill's replicas of trash, these pieces explore the effect of human development and our detritus, the ephemeral nature of existence and a questioning of what is truly real in a humorous manner. But with the addition of video, Gilewicz toys with our perceptions in a much different way, causing us to reassess both our perceptions of our own realities and that which has been depicted. Video acts as a distortion of reality onto itself by preserving a particular moment in time and by numerous effects that can be applied without the viewer's awareness of them, so the use of video brings another element into play in the work.
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