A Painting Cycle – Agnieszka Brzezanska
Agnieszka Brzezanska, A Painting Cycle. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori
Agnieszka Brzezanska, A Painting Cycle. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori
Agnieszka Brzezanska, A Painting Cycle. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori
Agnieszka Brzezanska, A Painting Cycle. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori
Agnieszka Brzezanska, A Painting Cycle. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori
Agnieszka Brzezanska, A Painting Cycle. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori
Agnieszka Brzezanska, A Painting Cycle. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori
Agnieszka Brzezanska, A Painting Cycle. Installation view, Nomas Foundation, Rome. Ph. Giuliano Pastori
Curated by Cecilia Canziani and Ilaria Gianni
April 19th - May 1st, 2012
Opening April 19th, 2012 from 6.30pm
Nomas Foundation, viale Somalia 33, Rome
On Thursday 19 April in occasion of the fourth appointment of A painting cycle, Nomas Foundation presents the Polish artist Agnieszka Brzezanska. The artist's researches on science, nature, art and metaphysic, merge in her practice and are translated in her canvas by constant shifts of rhythm, fluidity and colour. Every work is a result of the tension stemming from a profound investigation within both the abstract and the figurative dimension, which is transposed through a spiritual and mystical construction of the image itself.
Agnieszka Brzezanska will be in conversation with Tenzing Barshee, a writer, from Basel. His texts have been published in various international magazines and newspapers. Currently he is running Elaine MGK with Nikola Dietrich, Scott Cameron Weaver and Hannah Weinberger. More recently he started assisting Fabrice Stroun at the Kunsthalle Bern.
After A Performance Cycle (2010) and A Film Cycle (2011), again this spring Nomas Foundation's programme will be marked by a project taking the form of a cycle as a mode of presentation that aims to explore specific languages within art declined in their different nuances and forms.
A Painting Cycle reflects on painting, a language that the public tipically identifies as art tout court and that is today, increasingly gaining space, attention and momentum.
What does painting mean today? How did it change - if it has - in dialogue with the variety of media that in the past century artists have adopted? Is it still possible to speak about style, technique or use the term ‘representation’? With which awareness is painting addressed at the present moment?
These and many more are the themes of A Painting Cycle, which aims to confront the public with a dialectic of positions on a specific language rather than with a solution.
Every two weeks from March 8, chapter after chapter, Nomas Foundation becomes a picture gallery hosting conversations, workshops and a thematic library open to the public.
Through a selection of works, the five invited artists, offer different positions of the interpretation of painting, addressing specific aspects and key terms that will be discussed in a public conversation with an art critic invited by them.
As part of their presentation, the artists have been asked to indicate an art work /monument of the city that has had a particular influence within her or his artistic research, all of them together drawing a virtual map of the cultural heritage inscribed in the city of Rome.
In addition to this, A Painting Cycle is accompanied by a workshop lead by artist Alessandro Sarra, which intertwines with the exhibition programme and constitutes yet another point of view on what painting means today. The workshop Progettare un cielo offers a visionary approach through which to consider the very fabric of painting, and is organized in ten weekly appointments abridging Nomas Foundation, the artist’s studio, and some museums of Rome. The material produced during the workshop will be posted regularly on Nomas’ website.
Media partner: CURA