maria malczewska-bernhardt veil of illusion
15 September - 29 October 2017
BWA SOKÓŁ Gallery
vernissage:
15 September 2017, hour 18:00
Maria Malczewska graduated from the State High School of Visual Arts in Opole. In the years 1970-1977, she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow at the Faculty of Painting in the studio of prof. Włodzimierz Buczek and prof. Zbyluta Grzywacz. She obtained her diploma in 1977. In 1980-1982, she completed post-graduate studies at the Theater and Film Stage Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. He has been performing artistic activities continuously since graduating.
The artist's works can be found in museum, city and private collections, including Austria, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland and the USA.
Participant in the International Pastel Biennale in Nowy Sącz. The laureate, among others: 1st Prize of the Artists' Union in Düsseldorf and the 2nd Prize of the 24th Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting in Szczecin.
"Painting by Maria Malczewska-Barnhardt is a living, constantly developing and open process." Despite achieving a high degree of technical skill in the field of photorealistic imaging, the artist in her last paintings sometimes returns to the principles of the aesthetics of expressive figurativism, thus referring to the beginnings of her own creativity. mostly sentimental motifs, but in this case something much deeper is going on, about the desire to maintain a creative balance between the rational and cool stylistics of photorealism and emotional impulsivity, which is the deepest source of artistic creation. Feelings and reason complement each other and like in life, just like to art, they are like two poles between which extends the space of a sensibly ordered whole.
The paintings, painted by Maria Malczewska-Bernhardt, painted both in a controlled manner and concealing emotions, or on the contrary, revealing the source of artistic emotions, oscillate around the intention of presenting the aura of mystery as an important component of human fate. They stimulate the viewer's imagination, move the images and symbols stuck in the subconsciousness, oblivion and reminders. They tend to reflect on the hidden essence of the thing hidden behind the veil of impenetrable matter. "
Franciszek Chmielowski
Participant in the International Pastel Biennale in Nowy Sącz. The laureate, among others: 1st Prize of the Artists' Union in Düsseldorf and the 2nd Prize of the 24th Festival of Polish Contemporary Painting in Szczecin.
"Painting by Maria Malczewska-Barnhardt is a living, constantly developing and open process." Despite achieving a high degree of technical skill in the field of photorealistic imaging, the artist in her last paintings sometimes returns to the principles of the aesthetics of expressive figurativism, thus referring to the beginnings of her own creativity. mostly sentimental motifs, but in this case something much deeper is going on, about the desire to maintain a creative balance between the rational and cool stylistics of photorealism and emotional impulsivity, which is the deepest source of artistic creation. Feelings and reason complement each other and like in life, just like to art, they are like two poles between which extends the space of a sensibly ordered whole.
The paintings, painted by Maria Malczewska-Bernhardt, painted both in a controlled manner and concealing emotions, or on the contrary, revealing the source of artistic emotions, oscillate around the intention of presenting the aura of mystery as an important component of human fate. They stimulate the viewer's imagination, move the images and symbols stuck in the subconsciousness, oblivion and reminders. They tend to reflect on the hidden essence of the thing hidden behind the veil of impenetrable matter. "
Franciszek Chmielowski
