oil, canvas, 190 x 135 cm, signed and described on the back: 'TAMARA BERDOWSKA | FUGUE I'
The featured painting is one of five from the series of Fugues , comprising the artist's graduation work, which is a kind of symphony for the whole range of shades of blue.
A fugue is a polyphonic piece and is one of the most artful musical structures.
In the exposition, the melodic theme of the fugue resounds in unison. Having finished the theme, the first voice begins to weave side plots, and the theme is taken over in turn by the second voice, the third voice, and so on. The rule is that the full theme must sound in the exposition as many times as there are voices in the fugue, which pick up the theme and run with it. Hence the name of the fugue - escape. (...) In the ending of the fugue, or coda, the theme returns to its original form and tonality. The theme of the fugue is the same, but when it passes from one voice to another it changes in many details and interests us differently each time.
Tamara Berdowska, notes for thesis (courtesy of the artist)
From 1985 to 1990 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in the studio of Prof. Janina Kraupe-Swideska. She received her diploma with distinction. From 1988 to 2018, she participated in more than 100 group exhibitions and 22 individual exhibitions. Since 2000, a participant in symposia organized by Bożena Kowalska for artists using the language of geometry in Okuninka, Orońsko and then in Radziejowice. She has received, among others, scholarships from the Ministry of Culture and Art, Emilly Car College of Art and Design in Vancouver (Canada), Pollock-Krasner Foundation (New York), Creative Scholarship of the President of the City of Bielsko-Biala and awards of Prof. Janina Kraupe-Świderska, Grand Prix, Art of Two Times, National Museum in Gdansk, Egeria 2000, Mayor's Award, Ostrów Wielkopolski Museum, Witold Wojtkiewicz Award in Krakow. Tamara Berdowska's works are in the collections of the National Museum in Szczecin, the Museum in Bochum, the Studio Gallery in Warsaw, the Historical Museum of the City of Cracow, the Archdiocese Museum in Katowice, the District Museum in Chelm, the District Museum in Radom, Polish Sculpture Center in Oronsko, Historical Museum in Bielsko-Biala, Mondriaanhuis, Museum in Amersfoort, Mazovian Center for Contemporary Art "Elektrownia" in Radom, Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Museum Kulturspeicher Würzburg Sammlung Peter C. Ruppert and in private collections at home and abroad.
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