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Artist Statement:
"Imagination is the mainspring
of every artist's actions"
T. Kantor
Undoubtedly, such mainspring
of art for me is theatre - the
most important source of
inspiration and spiritual
experiences both, as a viewer
and an artist. Both aspects
are equally important for me
anyway. The first directly
influences the topics...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Polish Consulate General in
Malmö/Konsulat Generalny RP w
Malmö
31.05-06.06.2009
Adolf Fredriksgatan 13,
SE-200 74 Malmö, Sweden
tel. (0-04640) 26 74 16, 26 89
86, 26 87 86
tel./fax.(0-04640) 91 43 39
www.malmokg.polemb.net
Canfin Gallery
june/july...
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Artist Galleries:
Art Affair Galerie, Regensburg
Neue-Waag-Gasse 2
93047 Regensburg
Germany
T 0049 (0) 941 5999591
F 0049 (0) 941 5999594
Opening Hours
Tue - Fri
11am - 1pm and 3pm - 7pm
Sa
10am - 4pm
Canfin Gallery
39 Main Street
Tarrytown, NY 10591
Phone: (914) 332-4554
Fax: (914) 332-4554
www....
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Icons of Modern Times
On a scorching afternoon this June, I met Anna Bocek in the Old City of Gdañsk under rather unusual circumstances, at the opening of the Amber Museum. The presence of the artist was not accidental as her design was used to arrange the interior and the amber treasure exhibition in the medieval walls. The modern and daring production clearly showed the experience gained by Anna in her set design work for many, often famous, plays.
However, the main area of artistic expression for Anna Bocek has always been painting. This conscious choice sets her roots and sources of fascination in European expressionism; however, she does not simply continue this trend or its postmodernist parodic development. One could say that the figures and faces painted by Anna are expressionistic in spirit as a result of her deep psychological fascination in man. The brilliantly captured gestures, grimaces and emotional states, as if with feminine intuition, are a real gallery of the most diverse dreams, depressions, ridiculousness, pride, sometimes reflection and melancholy. Moreover, these images of men and women are a clear sign of the artist’s distress: our modern life in mega cities means passing by hundreds and thousands of human faces, every one of them with its history, drama and individuality.
A mass character of modern culture and our limited perceptions exclude any personification of this unique stream of information. Suffice it to make a simple exercise: how many faces seen during the last underground or bus journey are still in our memory? Have they given us some important information? Emotion? Fascination?
Anna Bocek tries to extract from this magma what is the most interesting to an artist: differentiating, individual and outstanding elements that form an icon in modern times. Unlike Andy Warhol, who only reproduced what was repeated and popular. Perhaps this is the reason why the painter is searching in expressionism for some communication techniques. With these strong means of expression, she wants to leave a permanent trace in her and the viewer’s memory. At the same time, she is perverse, ironic and witty, which adds true value to her studies of faces and figures.
Her pictures also remain in one’s memory because they are very subtly based on deep archetypes of our consciousness. They use colour and light contrasts boldly, often drawing psychological or social situations of people depicted. However, her images are not journalistic: the painter deprives neither media men nor sociologists of their jobs. Rather from her work they can learn many interesting things about us: entangled in modern times like in an enormous, gigantic network of visual information.
Painting means reflection, not production. This simple, though often forgotten truth, is brilliantly reminded by Anna Bocek.
Pawe³ Huelle 29.06.2006
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