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Wroclaw, Wroclaw Poland
Represented By: EC Gallery, Chicago, IL United States
Agata’s style can be described as a mixture of a new figurative representation and geometric movements of the 20th century, when color was the most important. But for years Agata’s main theme has remained the same - the human body. The way she pa... more
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| Gender: | Female |
| Artist Statement: | Agata’s style can be described as a mixture of a new figurative representation and geometric movements of the 20th century, when color was the most important. But for years Agata’s main theme has remained the same - the human body. The way she paints the body is becoming clearer and clearer and she is more conscious of it with each work. The new series of her oil paintings are inspired by the human figures in pure biological sense. She gets inspiration from mass media, especially from pictures and texts. Statement: The human figure has been the main object of my interest for a few years now. I consider it to be the most complex and intriguing topic when it comes to painting. To some degree, I would agree here with Francis Bacon, who claimed that abstract art results inevitably in decorativeness while the one which turns a human being into a hero can move the spectator more deeply. My paintings are the result of my efforts to synthesize the image of a human being. A lot of their space is devoted to controlled accident and freedom of choice. I am often challenged by risky combinations of colours and inspired by press, photography and lettering. However, I am not interested in the messages they carry. I dissect them, strip them of their meaning while giving them a new one. Therefore, the elements of lettering included in my works have no communicative value whatsoever, but only a visual one. In a way, they are a manifestation of the modern world. Images just fall into my head and evolve into new ideas – they generate new images, create various stereotypes, largely condition the way I think. This is how a painting/image is created – processed and filtered by the mind – but with its source lying in other images, most often seen on TV or in the press. We are constantly bombarded with images which settle deeply in our unconscious minds and control our behaviour. Created by a human being, now they lead their own independent lives. We made them alive but we lost control over them. Agata Czeremuszkin |
| Education: | 2003 - 2008 Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (painting department) 2007 Edinburgh College of Art- scholarship UE Socrates-Erasmus 1998 - 2003 Art College, Czestochowa, Poland (graphic design - publishing) |
| Awards & Distinctions: | 2007 “Around the Coyote” Curator’s Choice (curated by Shannon Stratton), Chicago, USA 2007 education grant from City Hall Wroclaw 2007 art grant from City Hall Wroclaw |
| Exhibitions: | 2009 "Pisz Litery" Dluga Gallery - Boleslawiec, Poland 2009 "Reflections" Polish Center of Wisconsin Gallery, Franklin, USA 2009 "Works on paper", EC Gallery, Chicago, USA 2008 Drawings, EC Gallery, Chicago, USA 2008 "Bloom" project, Brussels, Belgium 2008 “Podwodny Wroclaw” Festival, group exhibition, Browar Mieszczanski, Wroclaw, Poland 2008 BWA Awangarda Gallery, Wroclaw, graduated exhibition, Poland 2008 127m2 of painting-realization of mural painting in Browar Mieszczanski, Wroclaw, Poland 2008 International Screenwriter's Festival in Bourges, France 2007 "Girls of the professor" exhibition in Browar Mieszczanski, Wroclaw, Poland 2007 "Around the Coyote" (curated by Shannon Stratton), Chicago,USA 2007 “The best of the Fest", Around the Coyote Gallery, Chicago 2007 "Examination of self and body", Chopin's Theatre, Chicago 2007 “Blue and Black"- Edinburgh College of Art, group exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland 2007 „The First student biennal of small forms” 2007 Tymczasowa Gallery PWSZ in Raciborz; Epicentrum Gallery in Jastrz?bie Zdroj, Stalowe Anio?y Gallery in Bytom Poland 2007 "International Drawing Competition Wroclaw"- Museum of Architecture in Wroclaw 2006 City Gallery of Art in Lodz, Poland and Neapoli Gallery in Thesalonikas, Greece 2006 "Green" exhibition in Edyta Stein's house (with a group "Blond w sztuce") 2006 “Around the Coyote" festival , Chicago, USA 2005 exhibition with group "2+x" Akademia Gallery, ASP Wroclaw , Poland 2005 exhibition of studio 114 painting department (ASP Wroclaw) , Under the plafond Gallery, Wroclaw , Poland 2005 “500% of art" - "Place for art" gallery, Studio BWA Wroclaw, Poland 2005 "Think-animal" group exhibition in Browar Mieszczanski Wroclaw, Poland 2002 "Around the Coyote" festival , Chicago |
| Artist Tags: | painting, mixed media, figurative, abstract, color, contemporary |
