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THE BORDER OF SHAPE | exhibition of paintings by Joanna Głażewsk
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THE BORDER OF SHAPE | exhibition of paintings by Joanna Głażewska and sculptures by Michał Wietrow
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Artists: Joanna Głażewska i Michał Wietrow
Place: Galeria 101 Projekt
Date: 19.11-02.12.2021
Curator: Paulina Świerczyńska-Brzezińska
The work of Joanna Głażewska, which addresses the challenges characteristic of abstraction, is based on unusual precision in building rhythmic sequences combined with a deep sensitivity to color. Compositions of contrasting color combinations are compiled into geometric arrangements, filling the picture field. Joanna Glazewska's works do not illustrate specific places or situations. They are rather a a representation of a fragment of reality. It is not space itself that is the focus of attention, but only a certain part of it, or the memories and emotions associated with it. Exceptional precision in creating harmonious sequences ensures that there is no place for randomness in this painting. The artist moves freely in the world of abstract forms, and the choice of these is always dictated by the subject of the paintings. In a way, she puts our existing reality into some kind of order, combining various ways of experiencing the surrounding world, and turning them into pure visual experiences. The content, however, is never a slave to the form. One can admire the artist's skill in operating within diversified formal means, but it should be noted that her technical prowess would not produce the appropriate emotional effect without a deep sensitivity towards the relationship between form and content.
The main area of inspiration for Michał Wietrov's creative search is the human body. The artist's patches are sometimes firmly rooted in a specific narrative - as in the case of the sculptural series "Hern", in which the cultural context blurs with time, giving rise to a characteristic stylistic group of sculptures, to which the artist has been returning for several years. The realistic depiction of the human body is juxtaposed here with a surrealistic vision of the surrounding environment, unambiguously referring to the mythological origins of the series. The silhouette of the eponymous Hern is presented as people probably must have seen it centuries ago. It has a clear human shape, but there is also a distinct element of strangeness to it. What is seemingly familiar has something dark and mysterious about it. It arouses fear, but also fascination. Apart from this ongoing group of sculptures, the exhibition also presents quite different works. They are focused on a single figure - usually female. The artist, who - despite his young age - has already proved that he can work in traditional figurative sculpture, exceeds certain literal limits, heading towards synthetic forms, occasionally bordering on abstraction. Generalized, simplified silhouettes carry fewer and fewer distinguishing marks, sometimes only suggesting certain features to the viewer. An ideal female body, a concept understood through the prism of generally accepted norms, becomes a starting point for the analysis of not only formal sculptural questions, but also for the artistic problems.
Paulina Świerczyńska-Brzezińska
(born 1973, Ruda Śląska) - a graduate of the Faculty of Painting and Drawing at the Władysław Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Łódź. She grew up in Upper Silesia, but now lives and works in Warsaw. Her work is an attempt to draw attention to the pleasure of disconnecting from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, its cacophony of sounds, and the overwhelming experience of living online. She values silence, listening to one's own breath, communing with nature, and relationships with other people as a special kind of respite that many of us no longer experience. Each of her works seems to whisper - stop, you are missing something beautiful. Joanna Glazewska's works can be found in companies, institutions and private collections in Poland, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Canada and the USA. She also produces set designs for domestic and international film productions.
(born 1995, Mrągowo) - in 2017 he graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture in Krzysztof Bednarski's studio. In 2020 he received a master's degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw at the Faculty of Sculpture in the studio of Andrzej Sołyga, bronze annexe in the studio of Mieczysław Kozłowski. The artist creates mainly in bronze technique, and the human body is the main area of inspiration for his creative explorations.
