Dimensions: 80 x 80 cm
Signed and dated on the reverse: 'A. Brzeżanska | 2022'
described on the painter's loom: 'Louise Bourgeois | 25 DEC 1911 | 10:00 | PARIS FRANCE'.
Provenance
gift of the artist
Exhibited
Agnieszka Brzeżanska, "Spells and Ancestors," Willa Polonia, Busko-Zdroj, 2023
"CONSTELLATION," BWA Warsaw, Warsaw, 2024
Literature
Visual artist. She works in a variety of easily accessible techniques thus shortening the distance between the creator and the viewer. In her works, she primarily explores ecological and feminist themes, showing the inseparable connection between man and nature.
The series "Cosmograms" are portraits of figures important to the artist, but not painted from photographs or nature, but from their cosmograms, i.e. diagrams derived from each person's date of birth. The paintings refer to the artistic practice of Swiss researcher and healer Emma Kunz (1892-1953), who, among other practices, created abstract compositions in which the artist's inner energy was expressed through the rhythmic arrangement of figures.
Biography
Visual artist, painter, photographer, video maker. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk (1992-1995), the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (1995-1997, diploma in Prof. Stefan Gierowski's Studio) and Tokyo University of the Arts (1998-2001, Japanese government scholarship). As part of the "platform_c" project, she organized a summer academy and symposium in Cappadocia, Turkey (2000). Within the framework of artists-in-residence programs, she was a guest artist in Mont Escalioso, Italy (Oreste 2000), at the scientific institute of Collegium Helveticum in Zurich, Switzerland (2004), at Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Insbruk, Austria (2005). Her works are in the collection of Saatchi Gallery, London. The artist's solo exhibitions have been held in Rome, Berlin, London and Basel, among others. Brezanska creates multimedia exhibitions, combining drawing, photography, video and music. She is interested in media reality and its influence on perception; in her works she shows what we usually pay attention to and recontextualizes found photos and frames from television. She lives and works in Warsaw and Berlin.
