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Laboratory of the Internal Detox

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Łukasz Majcherowicz - a serious man. A serious type of painting – studied and measured.

His atelier in the Warsaw Art Academy is like a meditation room, a detox after classes with youth. Students are not allowed to enter. Just by looking at these paintings one can fall into a trance, let alone painting them.

Radek Zielonka - an invader from Łódź

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A great emergence. After his studies in Warsaw and numerous travels Zielonka came back to his hometown. On the distant outskirts, in the house whose windows overlook a mobile network tower, he is trying to keep his distance from the world.

His only regret is that there is no river in Łódź. A city without a river is incomplete, so he gets away to Warsaw with its Vistula River and its parties. In his secluded home he leads the life of a reclusive artist. ‘Painting isn’t easy,’ he says. ‘Sometimes you need to get drunk with the painting, soldier on until the small hours.’

Holy Mother!

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The devil lurks behind the cross? Come to find out and hear the artist’s confession – on 22 December, in vernissage. We begin at 7:00 p.m.

Holy figures from near the Jasna Góra Monastery? Yes, but without boredom or cliché. Fantasy and a wink, instead. Jacek Łydżba deals with traditional devotional articles and plays with the sweetness of church-fair kitsch. The dress of the Mother of God flows with blood and burns with roses, while Jesus’ garments look as if they were taken from a Bollywood movie.
The latest exhibition of Jacek Łydżba’s works entitled ‘Holy Mother!’ means playing with conventions and tradition, overcoming stereotypes creatively and being free of iconoclastic gestures.

‘I have forgotten one can be so young’

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- says Homo Faber, the eponymous character from the Max Frisch’s novel, seeing Sabeth – a girl with a ponytail.

She’s smart, pretty and curious about the world. She’s becoming an adult and she may already be a woman, but she still plays table tennis with childlike enthusiasm. The terror of the future, the shadows of the past, all that real life is just an intuitive feeling.
This may actually be an appropriate beginning for this short introduction to the exhibition of paintings by Katarzyna Karpowicz.

Musical maniac (Invitation)

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Szymon Parafiniak is a musical maniac – present at concerts, a friend of jazz artists.

He has gone through periods of fascination from The Doors and punk rock to Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett. Music permeates his art – he designs album covers, posters. It was this fascination that led to the emergence of an idea to create a series of portraits of jazz personalities where he connects cold pop-art with emotional involvement. The explicit lines applied therein express a dynamic nature of these works whose white backgrounds are rather quiet and ascetic.

Friday, November 18th, 7 p.m., SZPULKA CAFE, Plac Trzech Krzyży 18
Live: MACIEJ OBARA ELECTRICALLY

Posters!

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Art ready to download, that is, your favourite artists on posters!

Galeria ART presents a series of authorial posters. Contrary to popular belief, literature and art are not on the retreat, and interest in books and paintings is not an elitist activity. We combine paintings with poetry, novels, essays on art and architecture. What does Adam Patrzyk have in common with Franz Kafka, or Maja Kiesner with Peter Zumthor? Find out in the poster. Image and word in a nutshell: a reproduction of a painting and a quote from literature.

The Idea Hidden in Things

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The marriage of painting, design and business. Painter Maria Kiesner (the ART Gallery) and Marnix van Hoe, a representative of the Belgian property development industry, are cordially inviting everyone to see the exhibition entitled ‘The Idea Hidden in Things’.

The image of architecture in the architecturally sophisticated interiors.

The exhibition of Maria Kiesner’s paintings in the IdeaMM Studio is an ideal solution for fans of painting and design. Young art against the background of the classics of world-class design.

A painting or a couch? Come and get rid of your dilemmas!

Art déco in the post-industrial Żoliborz? Few people knew about the existence of President Ignacy Mościcki’s little palace located in the area belonging to the Industrial Chemistry Research Institute on Rydygiera Street. A few months ago the IdeaMM reformed the place. The ART Gallery cordially invites you to the IdeaMM’s showroom to see the architectural surprise of this season.

Password: ‘The Idea Hidden in Things’
Date: 25/08/2011, 7 p.m. (vernissage)
Venue: the IdeaMM Studio, 8 Rydygiera Street, building No. 6
Live music

Let’s go to sleep!

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The Night of Museums disrupts our sleep pattern. Instead of heading for bed, we are queuing, yawning incessantly..

or mooning with grainy eyelids around art galleries. Our eyes can barely see anything, but the art won’t give up. Following the national programme of encouraging our fellow countrymen to experience art, Galeria Art perversely exhibits the portraits of sleeping people by Katarzyna Karpowicz. Do not let Maria Skłodowska–Curie get yawny! Maria
wants to sleep!

Curled up on bare ground, under navy blue skies, lulled by the silence of the night, the characters in Kasia Karpowicz’s paintings are calm and safe – locked in their own world of dreams. Meditative, oneiric pictures have their symbolic depth, the rhythm of a placid breath of a sleeping girl, a man, an animal. The stories that we see are more of an interval than actual life itself. Life may return there once sleep is over. Or even better, all the action takes place under the eyelids of the sleeping. The stories about existence, fairy tales with a secret, lullabies with a metaphorical key.

Orbiting

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People expecting conventional paintings happen to visit my atelier, looking for well-defined Kossak-like works and such. They go into my orbit and in their eyes I can sometimes see admiration and some other times horror. It’s because they have never ever before seen such intense colours and such verve in operating layers of paint. And I am not afraid of painting, I have no fear of canvas.

For those who are seeking new places, experiences and heights. For art connoisseurs and party animals. Jacek Łydżba’s exhibition in Soho Factory – the trendiest destination in Warsaw’s Praga – is an invitation to enter an energetic orbit of painting. Łydżba seduces his audience with bold colours and a repertoire of his favourite motifs. This is going to be a gathering of gorgeous female cyclists, tamed wolves and cult aeroplanes. For one evening that huge post-industrial hall will be filled with paintings and Jacek’s male and female fans. The guests will also have a chance to enjoy beer and live music.

Tuesday, April 19th, 8 p.m., Soho Factory, 25 Mińska Street.
Live: Maciej Obara Trio

After 23 years

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To see what it’s like to live together and paint separately for 23 years, to judge ‘the state of affairs after 23 years’, one should visit the exhibition of works by Bogna Gniazdowska and Mikołaj Kasprzyk in the Konduktorownia Gallery in Czestochowa. Both being faithful to themselves, the artists keep autonomy of their own art.

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Konduktorownia Gallery (former PKP building) – Local Society of Fine Arts in Częstochowa, 34/36 Piłsudskiego Street

All that jazz

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Portraits of musicians, bands and instruments by Krzysztof Kokoryn are being exhibited at the Levekusen Jazz Festival near Cologne.

Kokoryn is excellent at translating sounds, rhythm and the concert atmosphere into the language of painting. Being a friend of many musicians (e.g. famous for Voo Voo’s videoclips), he does not paint without music. His ability to see musical motifs is so unbelievable that the world’s most renowned jazz people identify with it. The foreword to the “Jazz” exhibition catalogue was written by an American drummer, Peter Erskine. Fascinated with Kokoryn’s art and his ability to capture “the swing” on canvas, Peter Erskine used his painting as the cover for “Music for Moderns” album by The Lounge Art Ensemble and now he has invited the artist to Leverkusen.

Adam Patrzyk - Insomnia

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Marek Bieńczyk writes in the exhibition catalogue that "the infatuation with the world created by Adam Patrzyk comes in no time and you ask yourself if you should go to these places or avoid them..."

Insomnia – the exhibition of the latest paintings by Adam Patrzyk in the ART Gallery is an invitation into the artist’s mysterious world – a world without people, where empty rooms resemble theatre decorations, and enormous book-filled libraries or facades with empty windows create inner tension and make one ponder.
This time the main themes are big city landscapes, skyscrapers with tiny spots of glowing windows, railway bridges, streets and crossroads – the city as an industrial monster at any time of day or night where hidden life takes its course.
Marek Bieńczyk writes in the exhibition catalogue that “the infatuation with the world created by Adam Patrzyk comes in no time and you ask yourself if you should go to these places or avoid them. His art is magical, which means it arouses an obscure desire to enter these paintings, dwell within their frames without realising right away whether it’s good or bad. (…) The city in some of the paintings simply becomes a towering tool with thousands of windows and stripes which become colourful keyboards playing the same recurring fabulous motif”.

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Having a talk over a carp. Just for fun.

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Having a talk over a carp. Just for fun.
Or: Still life with carp

Isn’t carp supposed to be grey?

It’s a special Christmas carp and a New Year’s goldfish. Two in one.

Have you ever seen one like that?

Carp tend to stay away from me.

But you’ve just painted a still life with a carp. Although the carp looks more active than still really.

It’s my first carp and it’s on the plate. And carp generally look much better in the water, swimming.

And as for the one on the plate, it would be…

It’s not carp that I like most but fish soup actually. And I do not associate the best fish soup with Christmas Eve, but with my trips to Hungary where they cook the best Halászlé. And this year for Christmas Eve I am hoping for some shrimps.

MCz was talking to Krzysztof Kokoryn

'We'll kiss each other's lips'

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The exhibition of paintings by Katarzyna Swinarska entitled “Pocałujmy się w usta” ('We'll kiss each other's lips')

The exhibition of paintings by Katarzyna Swinarska entitled “Pocałujmy się w usta” ('We'll kiss each other's lips') touches upon the issues of street sensitivity and romanticism: film characters, people from billboards and graffiti on flaky walls – is this not what shapes our dreams and desires?. The title of the exhibition comes from the poem by Halina Poświatowka 'Eternal FInale'.

ETERNAL FINALE

I’ve been promising paradise
but it’s not the truth
for I’ll lead you into hell
into redness – into pain

we won’t stroll through blissful gardens
nor peek through cracks
to watch peonies and hyacinths blossom –
what we’ll do is lie on the ground
by the gates of the devil’s palace

like angels we’ll flutter
our wings of darkened syllables
and sing a song
of simple human love

in the glimmer of light
seeping in from there
we’ll kiss each other’s lips
whisper goodnight
fall asleep

in the morning – a guard will chase us
from a battered park bench
and with a horrid laugh
point – at an apple core
by the roots of the tree

(Translated by Maya Peretz)

I met a friend…

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The day on the beaches of Miami. The night in jazz clubs. Strong cocktails and a total blast. Darek Pala and Szymon Parafiniak meet at an exhibition at the Café Kulturalna.

Both are from Częstochowa and both are graphic art graduates from Krakow’s ASP. Seemingly this is where the similarities end. Pala is a fanatic of light and color. The world in his paintings is juicy like exotic fruit which he paints so eagerly, saturated with Florida sunshine, full of people immersed in the sky-blue tint of the ocean or a pool. He uses his favorite motifs – simple, single vases, beaches covered with striped towels. The allure of a carefree life, a siesta, sensuality. However, he still searches for new forms, experiments with abstraction, variety, moments of hesitation.

Parafiniak is a musical maniac – present at concerts, a friend of jazz artists. He has gone through periods of fascination from The Doors and punk rock to Miles Davis and Keith Jarrett. Music permeates his art – he designs album covers, posters. It was this fascination that led to the emergence of an idea to create a series of portraits of jazz personalities where he connects cold pop-art with emotional involvement. The explicit lines applied therein express a dynamic nature of these works whose white backgrounds are rather quiet and ascetic.

One shall not succumb to the catastrophism of renovations though – we still can be reached

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Krakowskie Przedmieście, the artery which used to guarantee treacle of clients for the ART gallery is currently under construction. The view in front of the gallery is a bit surreal. Construction site or Verdun battlefield?

One shall not succumb to the catastrophism of renovations though – we still can be reached. You can park your car in the following streets: ul. Ossolińskich, ul. Trębacka or in front of the Bristol Hotel and then walk the final stretch. There are special pathways in place for pedestrians and in some placed the granite pavement has already been laid. It will be beautiful. And for the time being we have a reward for those of you who are ready to sacrifice for art and get their shoes dirty: Buy one painting, get the second one half price. This special offer lasts until the Trakt Królewski renovation is over.

In the meantime, in the foyer of the Holland Park apartment building at 17 Książęca Street there is an exhibition of Rafal Kostrzewa’s paintings. Please see the photographs below:

In October we had a show of Małgorzata Jastrzębska’s paintings in Café Kulturalna at the Teatr Dramatyczny. This was a first few canvases painted for the exhibition at the ART gallery. Jastrzębska is our latest ‘discovery’. A full series of those paintings will be shown at the ART gallery in two months. For the time being please see the photographs from Café Kulturalna:

January is a month for doing inventories. Therefore we would like to show you an inventory – a spiritual, artistic one. The ART gallery will have an exhibition of Jolanta Wagner’s drawings entitled The Inventory. Had you enjoyed Peter Greenway’s film, The Draughtsman’s Contract, you will instantly understand what Jolanta Wagner’s drawings are about.

You can also see the best pieces recently acquired by the ART gallery – by Kokoryn, Patrzyk, Kasprzyk, Łydżba…