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MAGDALENA JESIONEK biography
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Born in Krakow, living and working in Amsterdam since 1982. Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland, interior design, graduated 1981. Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands, painting graduated 1991. Teachers Training for Fine Artists (LOKV),. Utrecht and Amsterdam, Netherlands, graduated 1995. Since 1995 working as teacher drawing and painting in De Meerse/Pier-K. Centre for Art and Culture, Hoofddorp. Polish Cosmos, Gallery Dom Polonii, Cracow, group show. I dwell, I exist, Pools Huis, solo. Group...
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MAGDALENA JESIONEK paintings
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Notes on my artwork. In this process photography takes a vital role in my paintings. Photographs are anticipating on the final results of the canvas. They show the power of fragments and they inspire me to set up forms of fragmentations, which are defining the frames of our perception. Thats why I sometimes use shaped canvas. My artwork always shows fragmented architectural images, which can be read separately, although they belong to an organic unity. 2001 The Hague oil acrylic on canvas 160x160 cm.
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MAGDALENA JESIONEK paintings
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Architecture is my major all-embracing theme. Regarded within social and historical context architecture itself, ancient or utmost modern, reflects not only abstract ideas and principles of design, but also indicates the vulnerability of the human condition. Photography is so to speak the equivalent of my sketchbook. With kind of snapshots I am exploring fragments of reality. Photographic fragmentation itself often defines the forms of my canvasses; it enables a serial way of working.
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MAGDALENA JESIONEK gallery
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Oxymoron 2015 NY oil, acrylic on canvas, dyptich 100 x 140 cm U 100 x 140 cm D, private collection. The Relatively Short Episode 2015 Łódź oil, acrylic on canvas 115 x 120 cm. And What's Behind the Light? 2012 Łódź oil, acrylic on canvas 30 x 30 cm private collection. The Anvoidable Sense of Oneness 2012 Amersfoort oil, acrylic on canvas 80 x 146 (together) private collection. Solaris 2009 Den Haag oil, acrylic, graphite encaustic on canvas 30 x 30 cm. We Come, We Go, Atropos! As of Ashes 2009 Toronto oi...
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MAGDALENA JESIONEK archive
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This archive shows the development of my practice - the synthesis of my earliest studies in interior design in Poland with my later Dutch art education and how that is reflected in my work today. In 1991 I graduated from the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. At that time I was working in an impressionistic style, painting models and portraits, while I figured out my point of view on life and art. I wanted to talk about the human being but a direct relationship with the model became too limited.
