VOLARE is another instalment of the series LOTY [Flights], originally inspired by the dreams of flying of a peasant visionary, Jan Wnęk (1828-1869). Bogumił Książek ventures to carry out an experiment in his discipline to learn what the application of the principles of designing flying machines could produce in painting.  He constructs his paintings the way Jan Wnęk constructed his wings which he called “flights” (Polish “loty,” as Książek also entitles his paintings) – maximally light, with exposed mounting elements, eliminating whatever is superfluous, using a half-transparent, tightly stretched canvas. In the case of the painting, the element driving it is not air, but light – whose rhythms and actions are necessary for the work to come into existence. Aeroppitura (Aeropainting), an Italian offshoot of futurism popular in the 1930s, consisted in professional painters creating their artworks from their experience of flying planes and observing the world from a previously unknown perspective. Abstract sceneries, inspired by this and painted using an airbrush, became a coequal dimension, alongside formal postulates, of Bogumił Książek’s paintings, amplifying the impression of lightness, of being lifted and of gliding. . .