Jakub Julian Ziółkowski

2000 Words is a series of monographs conceived by Massimiliano Gioni, each of which combines a criticial forthright essay with a survey of an artist's works in the Dakis Joannou Collection. From the vantage of a single unique collection, these small volumes give insight into the work of some of the most exciting contemporary artists. Juxtaposing the heavenly and the debased, the innocent and the peverse, the celestial and the microscopic, Jakub Julian Ziolkowski depicts a world in which perspectives are lost, twisted, and folded into the artists' vision. Tracing a lineage from Hironymus Bosch to Philip Guston, Ziolkowski's work makes a startling demand: it asks the eye not to glance but to glare, to hold focus on the unraveling chaos of his images, and to unbridle itself in the hallucinatory vehemence of his vision."