‘Days in Even Numbers’
oil on canvas 100x90x4cm
2015
Still in progress.
Testing layers and colors, painting from the photograph creating different narrative and tension between elements on the surface.
Recent bits and pieces from my studio.
Working on some inspirations and adding up to my reading list.
'Kora' oil on canvas 100x90x4cm 2015 Trees, woods, nature and Autumn inspired brand new series of paintings.
I'm extremely pleased to be featured in Saatchi Art first ever catalog. It's brilliant and full of inspiring artworks, have a look here http://www.saatchiart.com/catalog
1. 'Monday' oil on canvas 90x90x4 cm 2015 2. 'Interior with Wooden Table' oil on canvas 90x90x4 cm 2015
New studio in Manchester city centre, moved in and unpacked, also made a mess already. New season of painting, research and deadlines. Meeting new artists that work with me now. Exciting challenges.
New painting in progress. After long summer break I'm back to painting and research. It's been long holidays that I definitely needed. I rested, spent time with my family, visited my country, and most importantly read loads of books I collected last year. I did sketches and became interested in hopes, frustrations and dedications put in the human form of prayers. After reading books of Amos Oz and Isaac Bashevis Singer I got inspired by the way Jesus and Judas are presented in Catholicism and Judaism.
New feature and article about me, enjoy!
Non-Painting Days
Apart from painting that usually fills my days (and nights, and days..), sometimes I take some time off and also pretend to be a model. I do a little bit of posing for a friend photographer and I really enjoy slow motions of feeling pretty. Those photo shoots are rare moments I get to see myself in a different context, out of studio, paints or brushes. It’s weird and uncomfortable not being in control of the image, in charge of its aesthetic visual choices. My role is entirely limited to being an edited ‘’object’’ on the final piece, representation of someone else’s idea. Silent hours of standing still, frozen thoughts and words. Beautiful lesson of listening, hearing and reacting. Huge challenge for a control freak like me. Moreover, those photos taken in various places make me notice something new and inspiring in every little bit of reality flattened on them.
Degree Show in Manchester School of Art 2015 is finished. All of the paintings are either sold or taken home. While I’m waiting for my new studio to be ready to move in, I collected some photo souvenirs from those three years. Those photos are different because they have been taken by someone who was an observer of my journey, taking photos spontaneously, showing new side of painting. All the mess, process, staging photos, my obsession with finishing paintings are documented here. When I’m creating piece my mind is focused purely on visions, ideas, frustration and developing shapes. I barely notice what surrounds me, today here’s my chance to notice and appreciate it all. I wish I could Include ‘smell’ of this studio, probably the thing I miss the most now.
12.06.2015 Manchester School of Art Degree Show . All that have a chance come to see the show before 24.06. It's amazing exhibition and was brilliant experience to be part of it. Off to have a holiday now I'm really in need of an artless break ! :)
SUBMISSION
My work is about layering again and again.
Constant process of removing, and adding to the composition erratically, allows me to freely explore the contradictions of materiality and colour within painting along with the balance between meaning and explanation, vision and gesture, word and unspoken thought. With visible liquidity in the way in which the paint is applied to canvas, I often use white as a neutralising aspect to the works – a personal form of eradicating what is deemed unsatisfactory or unnecessary, juxtaposing its use as a base, starting point, main element of composition and medium to alter the presence of colour. http://karolinazglobicka.com/
Profile featuring my paintings for my fine art course degree show. 12.6.2015 Manchester School of Art
Setting up for a degree show.
Painting walls, painting floors, curating paintings, hanging work, printing tones of documents...
And that’s it, that’s all, my degree is finished !
Everyone who is interested in seeing final effects of my efforts, feel invited to Manchester School of Art Degree Show 2015
12.06.2015
‘Family of Saltimbanques’ - Family of Saltimbanques (La famille de saltimbanques) is a 1905 painting by Pablo Picasso. It is considered the masterpiece of Picasso's Rose Period, sometimes called his circus period.[1] Its dimensions are 212.8 x 229.6 cm (83 3/4 in × 90 3/8 in).The painting depicts six saltimbanques, a kind of itinerant circus performer, in a desolate landscape. The composition groups them together but they seem disconnected and do not look at one another.[2]It was painted during a period from late 1904 to early 1906 when Picasso explored themes using the saltimbanque. Picasso frequently attended the Cirque Médrano in Montmartre. Critics have suggested Family of Saltimbanques is a covert group portrait of Picasso and his circle, symbolized as poor, independent and isolated. The painting was removed from the Spanish salon at the IX Biennale of Venice in 1910, because considered inappropriate by the organization.
ATEMPORALITY - In a book titled ‘Forever Now’ - Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, Laura Hoptman speaks about curating the exhibition in MUseum of Modern Art in New York by the same title. She says ‘What characterizes our cultural moment at the beginning of this new millennium is the inability - or perhaps the refusal - of the great many of our cultural artifacts to define the times in which we live. This is unsettling and wholly unique phenomenon in Western culture and it should come as no surprise that it was first identified by science-fiction writer, William Gibson, who in 2003 used the world ‘atemporality’ to describe a new and strange state of world in which, courtesy of the Internet, all eras seem to exist at once. Since that time atemporality has been observed in literature, popular music, and fashion, and subsequently called many different names, including retromania, hauntology, presentism, and super-hybridity.
‘Atemporal Show with Three Hired Actors’ - oil on canvas 150x180x4cm 2015
Idea of creating a painting on a painting with added references of Picasso’s work inside the shapes I painted. Historical description of people Picasso painted on his original piece, such as poor, isolated, disconnected matched the layers of my work. The painted sequence of words is in Polish, not many viewers of my works can understand what it means then. It may seem coded, mysterious, may force the viewer to search for it’s meaning, for it’s connection with the painting or historical annotation. It seems in mentioned ‘Atemporality’ we watch everything from the perspective of re-reviewers, re-painters, re-students, re-critics and re-thinkers. We either already know the meaning of everything or we avoid to know one, because what is familiar in English this time ‘we can’t be bothered’. What if we are the ones being referenced all the time? What if painted motifs stays the same to re-invent representing them painters. What if we are not the ones in charge of atemporality in post-post-modern world, what if it all rules our work?
Words don’t make sense and I just hired actors to make a scene.