GLASGOW:
MY QUARTERS
Glasgow. Or Porto. Istanbul. Paris. Florence. Cracow. It could be any city. Each of us has such a cit. A place focusing our transformation and struggle with what is in the midst of and what is outside. That is an archetypical city, universal individual point of reference, a place on the border between reality and imagination. The lens, which focuses the elementary questions and answers. For Anna Niwa that kind of city is Glasgow. A Mirror- like city. Scenery of puberty, also in artistic point of view.
The exhibition was divided into four areas-neighborhoods , these quarters in Glasgow, which the artist filled by own meaning, and experience...more
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Exhibited in Kraków - CurrentArt.Gallery
Curator - Filip Piotr Skóra
Photography / Reproductions: Olga Baca
QUARTER
NO.1
-CATHEDRAL
/CEMENTARY-
"I'm walking around. I'm searching for places formerly I've get to know (are they same, are they safe?). I pass the streets, which where the great unknown areas for me once. I'm looking in them a safe, familiar spot where I could focus. Any way, how much I would try to calm down, and make a bit more space in my head my thoughts bombarding me and I can't catch any of them for a bit longer..."
...NOBODY CARES IN PORTO...
technique: mixed media
/ own technique
42cm x 32cm
...NOBODY
CARES IN GLASGOW...
technique: mixed media
/ own technique
42cm x 32cm
...I LIKE WALKING AROUND
THE CITY ALONE..
technique: acrylic on canvas
100cm x 70cm
...I DON'T
LIKE WALKING AROUND THE
CITY ALONE...
technique: acrylic on canvas
100cm x 70cm
...IT SEEMED
TO MAKE MORE
SENSE TO ME...
technique: acrylic on canvas/ mixed media
100cm x 80cm
...I CAN'T WRAP
MY HEAD AROUND...
technique: acrylic on canvas
/ mixed media
80cm x 80cm
...LOST...
technique: acrylic on canvas
/ mixed media
80cm x 80cm
QUARTER
NO.2
--BUCHANON
STREET--
"It's now 10 years later. I'm in totally different life situation now....Maybe I haven't changed that much? Maybe I'm still the same frightened girl, that I used to be? What does mean my present anxiety associated with a seating there again, on the street? Maybe there is gear that still do not know how to roll up my path, and I'm worried about it every day? And no matter where I am, in which point in my life - this question is comming back to me..."
...WHENCE?..
technique: acrylic on canvas/ mixed media
140cm x100cm
....NOISE ANALYSIS-
-HIGH...
technique: acrylic on canvas,
mixed media
100cm x 140cm
....NOISE ANALYSIS-
-LOW..
technique: acrylic on canvas,
mixed media
100cm x 140cm
QUARTER NO.3
--PANJEA--
"Nothing has changed in here. (...) This is amazing. I'm in shock! But I don't feel this place anymore. I no longer feel here a trace of my spirit. I'm completely on the other side. (...) I am and I'm not the same girl who previously served plates here and was setting the table. I feel like I'm the same tender girl inside. The differece over the years is that I overgrown by experience and I am no longer so fragile...They saying I havent't change ...only I know the true..."
....PERSPECTIVE OF TRANSFORMATION...
installation, relief print,mixed media on plexi
50cm x140cm x12
....THREE
SKETCHES
TO THE
PORTRAIT...
tehnique: mixed media, relief print
on cardboard
100cm x 70cm x3
QUARTER
NO.4
-BOTANICAL GARDENS-
"Art exist
because living
is not enough."
acrylic on canvas,
mixed media
....SO...
WHAT NEXT?..
technique: acrylic
on canvas
/ mixed media
....IT'S
CLAMER
NOW I...
technique: acrylic on canvas,
mixed media
80cm x 80cm
....IT'S
CLAMER
NOW II...
technique: acrylic oncanvas,
mixed media
80cm x 80cm
