Technique - Oil on canvas, own technique
Dimensions - 80 x 60 cm
Year of creation - 2021
Work signed
The work from the series Independent Structures is a play with form, fluid shapes,
soft and delicate. Contrasted with flat and sharp planes. This
a bit like a symbol of the struggle between the organic and inorganic worlds, nature and the world
built by man. The idea of the painting is to achieve harmony, balance
between the worlds - only such a combination gives us peace and respite. This
means nurturing and constant attentiveness, in caring for the order achieved.
About the Author:
Joanna Banek born in Radomsko in 1967. For many years she has lived and worked in
Cracow. She graduated from the WSP - now the Jan Długosz University in
Częstochowa and the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow at the Faculty of Painting.
She works at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow at the Faculty of Painting. In 2018. she received the degree of
D. degree, and is a professor at the academy. She deals with painting and widely
artistic textiles in the broadest sense. She participates in numerous symposia and plein-air events.
She has participated in about 350 collective and 35 individual exhibitions in countries such as
countries such as Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Romania, Austria, Germany, England,
Hungary, Italy, Slovenia, USA, India. Her works can be found in collections
state and private collections in Poland and abroad.
The artist, in her latest series of works such as Botany, Crystalloscopy, Organik
or Independent Structures, combines elements of color and sign, reaches for motifs derived from
nature. Sometimes these are plants, structures found in nature, sometimes natural phenomena such
natural phenomena such as crystals, rain, cosmos, etc.
Color dominates the paintings, he is the main conductor. The individual parts
of the works are built from different matter, they turn into signs, symbols or
archetypes.