Uwe Kowski, born 1963 in Leipzig, studied from 1984-1989 with Bernhard Heisig at the Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst, Leipzig.
Uwe Kowskis actual works oscillate between chaos and order aiming to bring arbitrariness and liveliness into one form. At the same time the step of the idea to the abstract remains comprehensible making the viewers eyes moving back and forth between between structure and surface.
One may detects a sketch like drawings that only exist in its insinuation.
These are so deeply entwined with the colour-grid that background and foreground only exists in the viewer’s mind.
A typical characteristic of his works is an architectonical structured rhythm, directly networked with an individual option of colour. Oftentimes it is interrupted, the gaze stays on details and then finds new ways into the painting.
At the very moment Uwe Kowski is more coming back to figurative structures, the surfaces open up and the idea of a sketch is coming through much more than in the works from his recent past.
Recognizing something figurative in a non-representative structure, to make ones eyes moving forth and back between structure and surface is therefore characteristic for the viewer approaching his oeuvre.
This synchrony of used elements that Uwe Kowski combines in his works evokes the idea of infinity.