Pomimo to, że obraz...
The title hints at numerous meanings. It is enigmatic enough to make any number of readings possible
Pomimo - in the meaning of 'alongside' - we pass over the picture indifferently and focus on what is beyond it.
Pomimo - in the sense that, despite everything, it is a picture.
Pomimo to - in spite of the fact that it has been annihilated, has fallen from its pedestal as a cult object, has been maltreated and compromised, it stubbornly resumes a kind of substitute form, like a surrogate, a stopgap, debased to the most simplistic, primitive (in the sense of its execution) form. I note only its presence.
Pomimo to - in spite of this, it clings on, exists - why? What for? Simply so that once again the crime of manipulation can be carried out against it.
Pomimo to - in spite of the fact that something is going on there, I escape from it. I try to return, unsuccessfully and hopelessly. I make use of it instrumentally, I veil it with my own impotence or impure games and intrigues. I put it on show, making of it an alibi for my deeds.
Pomimo to - in spite of the fact that it is a picture, nevertheless, this is not so clear to the end. My purpose is fairly ambiguous. As if I wanted to conceal my true intentions and, in creating a picture in such a form, say, "What's the problem?" - after all, it is a picture. If I create a picture, then I am an artist. Only this picture, is kind of not quite all there. It lacks something, pomimo to - in spite of the fact that has everything a picture ought to have. A frame, a surface, colour, texture, etc.
Pomimo - in spite of the picture, I pretend to a 'non-painting', to painting non-painting.
Pomimo - in spite of the picture's physical existence, I make out that it is insignificant, passed over.
The method of its execution indicates its insignificance, its inferiority. Done anyhow, with paltry materials which are easily obtained in a hurry, to hand, hard by - particularly in the village were I prepare them and then fashion them in my studio.
There is a disinclination in this, a reluctance toward fancy perfection, toward creating a work of art as a luxury object.

Roman Siwulak