Buying A Stairway 2022

Willem Boronski

2022 • Netherlands • Oil, Charcoal on Canvas

39 x 28 in

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Willem Boronski

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Artwork details

Medium : Oil, Charcoal on Canvas
Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Ready to hang. Framing on request.
Dimensions : 39.4x27.6in

About this artwork

In Buying A Stairway, Boronski brings his recurring metaphor of the staircase to an expressive climax: a monumental figure — purple, bloodstained, and seemingly adrift — rises from a crowd of shadows. The central staircase, built from rough blue-violet steps, spirals upward with no clear end. It leads nowhere — or everywhere.

The figure appears to cling to the staircase. Or has it become part of him? The title suggests a transaction: an attempt… to buy growth, possess direction, force meaning.

The figures below seem like onlookers or victims — dark, silent, collective, undifferentiated. They stare upward, or into nothing.

The composition breathes unease and longing. The colors hold a tension between hope and threat — sky blue against blood red, desire against loss.

Willem Boronski

Netherlands

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Works on commission

Willem Boronski is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, and mixed media, with a strong emphasis on process. His works are defined by masterful layering—a rhythm of building up and peeling away—where abstract fragments subtly merge with figurative elements. Each piece acts as a silent question, evoking themes of existence, memory, and transition. Rather than offering fixed interpretations, Boronski invites viewers into a space of introspection and connection, where meaning unfolds gradually.

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Willem Boronski

Buying A Stairway 2022

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