Karolina JABŁOÑSKA (b. 1991), Support, 2015

Oil, canvas; 130 x 100 cm; signed and dated on reverse: K. Jablonska / 12.15.

PROVENANCE:
- Purchase directly from the artist;
- Private collection, Poland

Karolina Jablonska's art is a harbinger of change, the advent of another era in trends in Polish art, of which her early paintings are an excellent example. After years of dominance of conceptual and neo-expressionist art of the 1970s and 1980s, and the crystallization of the
of the critical art trend dominant in the 1990s and early 2000s, the voice of another, younger generation of artists has broken through into the public consciousness. This is a renewed insight into the artist's persona - his experience, which, with the apparent generational change followed by the technicization of the world, is taking on a new form in art. Karolina Jablonska treats the self-image, in a way, as an archetype of the
of the generation she represents. Therefore, although the characters in her paintings have her features, and the events recounted on the canvases relate to the activities of her peers, a range of emotions can be read in the artist's paintings, not only those that are potentially positive and presented, for example, in social media. That's why Karolina Jablonska's paintings can be disturbing, which the artist emphasizes by the often overscaled elements in the painting, the cramped frame, in which sometimes the whole figure does not fit, the stretched, unnaturally flexible limbs of the characters. Karolina Jablonska, along with Tomasz Kręcicki and Cyril Polaczek, form the Potencja art group. The artist is a graduate of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. In 2014-2015, she studied at Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová in Prague. In 2018, she was on an artist residency in Leipzig. She is a laureate of, among others, the Eugeniusz Geppert competition in Wroclaw and 2nd prize in the 43rd Bielska Jesień Painting Biennale. Her most recent paintings were shown during the Przetwory exhibition at the State Art Gallery in Sopot, and one of them is on display at the new headquarters of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.