Maria NIEWIADOMSKA (1961), Face; 2018

Building board, acrylic; 88 x 65 x 15 cm
Signed, dated, described on the bottom of the base: OBLICZE / MARIA /NIEWIADOMSKA/ 2018/ MN

She works in painting, sculpture and applied art. Obtained her diploma in 1989 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow - Faculty of Painting in the Studio of Prof. Zbigniew Grzybowski; appendix in lithography. She is a member of ZPAP Krakow District, lives and works in Krakow. Participant of many individual and collective exhibitions including: Historical Need for Nudity, Mandala Theater, Craft Museum in Ustroń; Small Format - Raven Gallery, where she received an honorable mention; Krakow Art Meetings 2017 Configurations Painting Sculpture Drawing, Palace of Art; ZPAP Pryzmat Gallery, Krakow; BWA Olkusz. The artist's works are in private and public collections.

"Contour sculptures" were created as an idea of drawing description of form in space. The restriction of the figure to a contour can be interpreted in two ways. Either the drawing is a simplification, an essence, a reduction of the subject to the essence, where the space around is equivalent, as creating the possibility of the existence of the drawing - the object. As in the Zen tradition - emptiness is form, form is emptiness; an endless duality. A more literal interpretation of "contour figures" as empty, devoid of interiority is also possible, but such a diagnosis is not my intention. If anything, I would be inclined to ask such a question, but not as a thesis.


Maria Niewiadomska