ABOUT I O MNIE

In my artistic work, I take inspiration from everyday life, in which I function.
I try, in the process of painting, to capture the meanings and relationships between various elements of the animate and inanimate world, of which I am a part.
Referring to ordinary situations and objects from everyday life, my work explores changeable relationships between reality in a social context and the inner life, mostly imaginary, filled with my own discoveries.
Dealing with a wide subject, which is: abstraction, my paintings, ultimately refer to my thoughts, expressed in various forms and signs, that I arrange into visual objects: paintings.
When creating a painting, I give it my own meaning, using such formal elements as color, proportion, composition, scale and shape. The theme of the work is definitely related to the format of the painting.
I mainly use natural materials: paper, cotton, wood in various scales and layouts.
I mostly paint with oil and acrylic paints.
Although there may not always be similarities in the meaning and concepts of my paintings, they are united by repeated doubt and reflection on what I see and how I want to express it.
Each work consists of many attempts, often invisible in the final result.
In the process of painting, I rearrange paintings around specific themes and meanings and new areas of my interest arise, usually in an accidental way, when I observe and experience the space around me and redirect my attention to subsequent works.

W mojej twórczości artystycznej, czerpiąc inspiracje z codzienności, w której funkcjonuję, staram się w procesie malowania obrazu, uchwycić znaczenia i relacje pomiędzy różnymi elementami świata ożywionego i nieożywionego, którego jestem częścią. Nawiązując do zwykłych sytuacji i przedmiotów z życia codziennego, moje prace badają zmienne relacje pomiędzy rzeczywistością w kontekście społecznym, a życiem wewnętrznym, w większości wyobrażonym, wypełnionym moimi własnymi odkryciami.
Zajmując się tematyką szeroką , jaką jest abstrakcja, moje obrazy odwołują się ostatecznie, do moich własnych przemyśleń, wyrażonych za pomocą, różnych form i znaków, z których tworzę, obiekty wizualne: obrazy.
Tworząc obraz, nadaję mu swój własny sens, za pomocą takich elementów formalnych jak kolor, proporcja, kompozycja, skala i kształt. Temat prac zdecydowanie, powiązany jest z formatem obrazu. Wykorzystuję głównie materiały jak papier, bawełna, drewno w różnych skalach i układach. Najczęściej maluję farbami olejnymi oraz akrylowymi.
Chociaż nie zawsze mogą istnieć podobieństwa w znaczeniu i koncepcjach moich obrazów, łączy je powtarzające się zwątpienie i refleksja nad tym, co widzę i jak chcę to wyrazić.
Każda praca, składa się z wielu prób, często niewidocznych w ostatecznym rezultacie.
W procesie malowania, przegrupowuję obrazy, wokół określonych tematów i znaczeń, pojawiają się wtedy, nowe pomysły, najczęściej w sposób przypadkowy, kiedy obserwuję i doświadczam otaczającej mnie przestrzeni, kieruję wtedy, swoją uwagę na kolejne prace.

Art education:
2014 Master Degree in Painting (MFA)
University of Fine Arts in Poznan (PL)

Art courses:
2022 Nature Lab, Udk Berlin
2019 Drawing & Space, Udk Berlin

Edukacja artystyczna:
2014 Malarstwo (studia magisterskie)
Uniwersytet Artystyczny w Poznaniu

Kursy artystyczne:
2022 Nature Lab, Udk Berlin
2019 Drawing & Space, Udk Berlin

exhibitions - wystawy:

SOLO:

2022
"Playthings"/"Poważne rzeczy", 28.I-20.II, Toruń
presentation with Flat Octopus, 8-10.III, bio Aspen, Stockholm/Sztokholm

2021
"Echoes"/"Odbicia", Pro Arte Gallery, 9-23.VII, Zielona Góra

2020
"View changes"/"Przemiany widoku", ODK Pod Lipami, Poznań

2020
"Turbulencje", 7-26.VII, ul.Piwna 67/68 80-831, Gdańsk

2014
Intermedia Gallery, UAP Poznań

GROUP:

2023

Firenze Contemporary 2, 3-17.VI, Via Ghibellina 105, Firenze, Italy
Comfort Culture, 9–21.I, Il Leone Art Gallery, Rome/Rzym

2022
Visions (Anima Mundi), Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, 17.VI-6.VII, Venezia/Wenecja

2021
First International Festival of Manuports, 12.VIII-10.10.2021, KOHTA, Helsinki

2021
Ogólnopolskie Biennale Sztuki, 13-24.VI.2021, MCSW Elektrownia, Radom

2018
Culture Centre /Centrum Kultury Zamek, Poznań

2017
R-Lab in Mindepartamentet, KKH, Stockholm/Sztokholm

2014
UAP Faculty of Painting exhibition, Galeria Arsenał, Poznań
Fama Festival, Świnoujście

"Playthings" - "Poważne rzeczy"
28.I-20.II, ul. Ducha Świętego 8/10/1287-100, Toruń

Anima Mundi (23rd.04-27th.11.2022) Art Fair

Concept (excerpt):

(...)Anima Mundi, which according to several historical cultures, religions, and philosophical systems, is an intrinsic connection between all living entities on the planet, which relates to the world in a similar way as the human soul is connected to the human body.
Plato expressed his thought about the anima mundi in the Timaeus, "this world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence...a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related".
Anima mundi is the invisible energy behind all the natural and artificial elements that allows the planet to live. Thanks to the hidden connections of anima mundi, all the ecosystems of the Earth, before and after the appearance of mankind, found their equilibrium, their ways to live and develop themselves, to transform and evolve. All the beings of the planet, plants, minerals, and animals are permeated by the secret force that has always stimulated human thought and research. TheArt Fair aimed to discover these multiple forms of hidden connections between the soul and the body, mankind and the natural elements, the natural spaces and the cities.
Artists were invited to show their reflections on the various ways in which the anima mundi expresses the relationships among all the existing entities and the natural and cultural systems, and to represent by their artistic works the processes of the evolution of the world in which we all live.
Artist, designers, and architects were invited to talk about anima mundi through photo reportage of cities, hidden places, photographic documentaires, personal experiences, presenting their works of photography, painting, sculpture/installation, design and architecture, video art and live performance.

kohta.fi/exhibition/first-international-festival-of-manuports-open-call-for-artworks/

FIRST INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MANUPORTS
12 August – 10 October 2021

Concept (excerpt):

The oldest known manuport is the so-called Makapansgat pebble, a piece of jasperite that once fit into the palm of one of the oldest relatives of humankind roaming what is now South Africa, where it was discovered in 1925. What makes the pebble so interesting (apart from its clear resemblance to a face and the doubt as to whether its shape has been enhanced) is that it was found four kilometres away from the nearest natural source of jasperite, together with bones of the Australopithecus africanus that are three million years old.

Such prehistoric readymades, usually invoking animals or human body parts, seem to indicate that even our earliest ancestors were capable of non-utilitarian cognition, aesthetic appreciation and possibly language, and that image-thinking is almost unimaginably old, certainly predating the earliest surviving cage paintings.

Architecture, Cities, Utopias: R-Lab 2017

Text written with animation.

https://issuu.com/matt850520/docs/r-lab_2017_web_version

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Architecture, Cities, Utopias: R-Lab 2017

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