Miscellanea
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Love song
In 2017, Jacek Łydżba came across a stack of old opera programmes and music notebooks at a used book shop. Yellowed, ragged, nibbled by time, visually magnificent, they additionally provided a record of history.
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Painting of the Year 2001
Dear lovers of Mikołaj Kasprzyk’s painting art, It is a real great pleasure for me to notify you that the Main Prize in the contest Painting of the Year 2001 was awarded to a work by Mikołaj Kasprzyk. The contest is held by ‘Art & Business’, a leading Polish visual arts magazine.
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Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed from a Skull
Apparently, Byron established a new Order of the Skull at Newstead Abbey, electing himself Grand Master or Abbot of the Skull. During its ceremonies, the goblet was filled with wine and passed about, “in imitation of the Goths (…) whilst many a grim joke was cut at its expense”. (Op. cit., p.71)
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My Yard
Edward Dwurnik painted his Moje podwórko (My Yard) in 1994 as he was back from his yearly scholarship in Germany. After his stay in the West he could all the more painfully feel a contrast between the European level of life and the Eastern-European style.
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Do you like Brahms?
The scene is always seductive - a girl’s head leaning over a music paper. She is absorbed by music and is just about to start playing.
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Atelier
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.
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Atelier
I definitely need a break, so I work in my atelier. There’s a very good light there and I always paint in natural light. Atelier is where I experiment and carry out some proven elements of design.
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From the beginning
Edward Dwurnik is an indefatigable worker. His productivity is legendary. Art critics, exhibition curators and journalists alike all revel in giving the numbers of pictures he can create in a week, a month, a year.
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Skulls
Questions to a painting: A portrait or a still life? Is it still a portrait or already a still life? Reminiscence of life, proof of human existence, or merely an object, a bone, Vanitas, end, nothing more.
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Cumulative stimulus study
Wiktor Gorazdowski’s colourful drawings are a fascinating combination of form and content. The artist uses his own rules of perspective and his own rules of painting construction. He draws everything out meticulously, with the precision of an engineer. In the outline, he fills the shapes with colour, using cheap markers.
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Maurin
Katarzyna Karpowicz’s narrative paintings are practically begging for a literary story. Writer and literature researcher Eliza Kącka took a look at the Maurin exhibition and added stories to several selected paintings in perverse miniatures.
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The Pink Cloud
‘I am a Colourist painter,’ says Murawska. And this simple definition should be enough. We should accept it as sufficient explanation in itself, if we wanted to explain her art at all, this art which simply seduces with colour at first sight.
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Oh, Bébé!
The current exhibition by Katarzyna Karpowicz in Galeria Promocyjna is entitled Ludzkie historie [“People’s stories”]. The title is very fitting, as each painting by the artist urges the viewer to guess, to build a narrative.
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Grand Prix of the biennale Jeune Création Européenne for Magdalena Sawicka
Magdalena Sawicka received the Grand Prix during the biennale Jeune Création Européenne (Young Europaen Art) held in Montrouge near Paris.
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Touch
Sawicka’s courage in representing intimacy, otherness, disability or sex is not aimed at cheap effect; it is not pornography, but a modern romanticism, curiosity about and reflection on the corporeal world as an enclosed space, as well as on relations between people: a diary and sociological study rolled into one.
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Roman Holiday
For me, Rome is a band of endless possibilities and delights – you can do a multi-day Caravaggio-themed excursion, and another one following in the footsteps of antiquity.
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On the Silk Road
Improvisations on mythological themes, or patterns on scarves in the artist’s own commentary.
Daniel Zarewicz explains the world in poetic phrases. And it is a world full of lightness and love at its most liberal, a world of beauty and dreams coming true.
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Framing the Moments
As far as the eye can see, the moment rules the world. Whatever happens, it is all equally important and interesting, comprehensive and contemporaneous, worth capturing.
