No. 94488070

Janusz Kik (1956) - End of the Day - Start of the Evening with Her (Fin de la Journée - Début de la Soirée avec Elle)
No. 94488070

Janusz Kik (1956) - End of the Day - Start of the Evening with Her (Fin de la Journée - Début de la Soirée avec Elle)
"End of the Day - Start of the Evening with Her" - 60 x 73 x 2 cm - Acrylic on canvas
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And there it is... the day that slowly expires, like a warm breath on a quivering nape. *End of the Day – Beginning of the Evening with Her*... just the title already smells of the alcove, the shirt barely unbuttoned, the glances growing heavier and the bodies drawing closer. Janusz Kik does not paint a simple landscape. He slips a hand under the light, opens a space where time melts, where colors sigh, where the sea and the sky embrace in a slow rise of desire.
The sun is no longer that radiant king who reigns at noon. It has become a lover. Less sure of itself, but more gentle. It stretches across the sky like a body lying on wrinkled sheets, offering its last flames to the coming evening. It no longer dazzles, it embraces. It licks the horizon tenderly, lingering on the curves of the boats like a loving tongue on a bare shoulder. It no longer wants to reign, it wants to love.
And then there is this sea. This liquid mirror, this sensual sheet where colors come to bathe naked. They are no longer ashamed. They slide, they stretch, they blend into each other like sighs between two skins. The water does not reflect the sky. It prolongs it. It caresses it. It transforms it into something else, something warmer, softer, more intimate. One no longer knows where is the top, where is the bottom. We get lost, like in a bed too big, when the legs intertwine and we forget to whom this hip, this breath, this fever belongs.
The raised masts are lines stretched like nerves. They do not move, but they tremble. They wait. They know that night is coming, but not a dark night. A warm night, full of promises, whispers, secrets. A night where one does not sleep, or at least in the arms of another. These masts are expectations, desires pointed towards a melting sky. They are invitations to climb, to hoist sheets to better hide beneath.
And she, she is there. We do not see her, but we sense her in every color. She is the soft blue lingering to the left, still a bit shy. She is the cheeky yellow that lights up in the center, between the damp oranges. She is the deep red, almost burgundy, that trembles in the water, like a yearning that we do not express immediately. She is that feeling of warmth on your skin when you are alone in front of the painting. But not so alone after all. Because she, she accompanies you. She comes.
She doesn't speak loudly. She says simple things. That she thought of you. That she put on makeup just for this moment. That she loves your end-of-day smell, that mix of fatigue and skin. She approaches. She sits next to you. She does nothing. And yet everything ignites. You feel that this evening will not be like the others. Not a conquest. Perhaps a reconquest. Or an offering. Or just a surrender.
The painting is silence. But a silence full of music. A music that can barely be heard. Like the one we play in the background when we don't want to distract the hands searching for each other. It is not a clamor of colors, it is a rise. Like a hint of wine on the lips. Like a button undone on a blouse. Like the first word whispered in the ear when the light dims.
And then there is this blue... this blue at the top of the sky. It stays there, discreet, at a distance. It watches everything, but does not judge. It is the eye of the painting. Yours perhaps. The one that remembers. Or the one that dreams. It will still be there tomorrow morning, when everything has slipped away, when the sails have been folded, when the reflections have fallen silent.
But for now, she is here. With you. In this day’s end that stretches on. In this painting that doesn’t want to finish. In this slow, caressing warmth that is no longer the light of the world but that of a skin that waits.
So look a little longer. Put your hand on the frame. Close your eyes if you want. She just placed hers on your thigh. Do you feel it? It's not a painting. It's a meeting. The first or the last. But surely not the only one.
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Janusz Kik was born in 1956 in Chorzow, Poland.
He has been working creatively for thirty years in Poland, Germany and now in France.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice.
His works can be found in numerous private collections around the world.
His inspiration comes from the world of the sea.
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