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The City of His Dreams: Tytus Brzozowski’s Surreal Watercolors of Warsaw
Warsaw has been rebuilt so many times that it barely remembers what “original” looks like — which may be exactly why it lends itself so well to the watercolors of Tytus Brzozowski. The Polish architect paints his hometown the way a city lives in memory: buildings balanced on improbable stilts, trains slipping out of tunnels bored through residential façades, teapots and dice drifting through the sky.
What saves the work from pure whimsy is how faithfully it’s sourced. Lift any single element out of a Brzozowski scene and it reads as a real piece of Warsaw; arrange them all together and the city becomes what he calls “the city of his dreams.” That tension between the observable city and the remembered one is the whole point.
The result feels less like fantasy than like Warsaw dreaming about itself. Newer work turns up on his Facebook page, and many of the pieces are available as prints through Lumarte.
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