Biomorphic, anthropomorphic constructions
„Jojo Darski is a multilateral and multilingual artist - he is quasi a kaleidoscope of producing artistic ideas. He is nearly the incarnation of the studied ordered artist. There can surreal worlds, fancy appearances, primordial worlds, biomorphic and also anthropomorphic constructions come into being. There are no complete and rationally comprehensible results in his images. He is leaving a lot of space for free interpretations and accomplishes therewith, that there is also with the second and third contact with his works something new and other can be detected. His art is creating a correlation between the artist and consumer, but is also engendering an interdependent relation between artist and recipient.“

Harald Nowoczin, 1. chairman Bergische Kunstgenossenschaft 2004
 
A game with forms, colors and words
"The first encounter with the works of Jojo Darski is intensively and a mixture between fascination and irritation. Fascination because of the technical perfection, by courtesy of which these pictures are captivating and irritation because of the subjects, that arise from manual skills and imagination. The dependence on great surrealists like Tanguy or Dalì are intruding in the first moment, but this remains by deeper analysis a purely formal parallel. Jojo Darski developed in the course of 15 years an individual style, which he is naming Organistic arts (in dependence on the organic forms of the subjects in his works).
His works are abducting us into a world of unknown/fantastical form shapes, either floating in an eye-catching continuum or crooked in bizarre landscapes. Different organic and nearly geometrical forms, and also citations of human or animally bodies, are growing into each other and from each other and form in each image different living things. These receive their liveliness and energy out of the strong colors and the perfectly elaborated plasticity of all individual parts. The varicolored essences and landscapes are jumping towards the spectator and force him him to a deeper analysis, in which the following questions are unavoidable: „Who or what is this?“ or „What is happening in this image?“
The recipient starts observing, prodding to many forms and colors, hints of human being, animal or plant, is finding coherences and movement, but no unequivocal answers to the intruding questions. Probably he is following the allure of the pictures, is pulling strings to his imaginationand is giving the artworks new names. But probably just irritation takes place and so the recipient is searching for help in the titles. Paradoxically he is joining here similar extraordinary conceptions - now indeed written words like 'bus teats', 'shrieking midge' or 'ensilage'. We are learning quickly, that the titles are meant neither as description, nor as help for interpretation, but they are part of irritation as humorous and intelligent suggestions.
The artist has packed his point of view in humorous wordplays, which you have to understand first, before you can pursue your mystery tour. The process of analyzing the artistic statements is starting again from an other point of view. If irritation or fascination is prevailing, is depending on the recipient. The titles have one important function: they are referring to the intention of the painter, that his art can be seen in a humorous way. This is dissociating his art clearly from symbolical heaviness and profound interpretations of apparently related styles.
Darskis artworks and titles are paltering with forms, colors and words - with the intention to please and inspire. The individual style of Jojo Darski is not just molding his paintings, but also in a similar way his extremely attractive graphical work. By the principle of contingency also here unknown tempers are rising on bright grounds - sometimes anchored allusively in space.
Thick lines and fine ink-ramifications are forming the outlines of these beings, which come into being by strong-colored and perfectly composed surfaces. So between the lines swollen and flagged, rutted and crinkly, transparent and proofed parts of the body are rising, which reinforce plasticity and materiality to the ink armatures. These so arisen entities evoke anthropomorphized insects, birds or other animals.
Typical for all graphic works are the fine ink-ramifications, which are growing in small or large tussocks out of the different body-parts. They act like innumerable hairy or bristled spider legs, that are peppering up the form-entities. The great attraction of the graphical works is lying - as well as in his paintings - in ambiguity of the plotted substances. Similar to a picture of clouds the recipient's fantasy is floating through the pictures and is searching for own titles. These facts account the highly aesthetic attraction of his graphics.

Claudia Enkrodt, Dipl. Kunst-Päd. 2005

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