Alicja DOMAÑSKA (b. 1984), BLACK UNIVERSE, from the series: TALISMAN OF ABUNDANCE, 2022

Own technique, canvas; 120.5 x 80 cm;
signed, dated and described on the reverse: ALICJA DOMAŃSKA / BLACK UNIVERSE / TALISMAN OF / ABUNDANCE / 2022.

Painter, Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, has had numerous exhibitions in Warsaw, Paris, Berlin, London, Stockholm, among others. Winner of the "Sopot Muse" award in the field of culture and art.
Her paintings are individual talismans of energy, expressive and yet sensual matter of abstraction derived from the free vitality of the painterly gesture, often showing a parallel world of emotions and subconsciousness.

...It is possible to take a completely different view of black, and this is probably what Alicja Domanska does, invariably dressing in black and most willingly painting in this way as well. After all, the Bible mentions: "the darkness that was over the deep" and that: "God called darkness night." And in alchemy, which must not be forgotten, darkness is, after all, what is called matter prima, because from it everything begins. Most likely, it is the same for the painter, who decided to close her art in this "first matter" - Boguslaw Deptuła