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Fundit.ie raising money for "Self portrait" exhibition

I am happy to announce that my project at Fund it has been successfully finished.

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I was raising money toward the costs for my two forthcoming exhibitions in Cork Institute of Technology - Gallery Wandesford Quay in Cork between 24th July - 14th August 2013 and touring to the Limerick School of Art and Design Gallery in Limerick at the end of 2013. As a winner of Manifest Award 2012 - Kinsale Art Festival - I was awarded these two exhibition. The judges were: Patrick Murphy (RHA), Trish Brennan (CCA / CIT) and Mike Fitzatrick (curator of Manifest LIT).

In my show “Self Portrait” I present works based on my family’s old photograph collection. In these paintings I am not analysing my roots, or displaying sentiment about the past. Rather my intention is to reflect my melancholic mood and some feelings of hopelessness and emptiness due to the passage of time. The death theme is extremely close in my work.

 

For a generous support I want to thank to:

 

Mareta Doyle

Claudia Bloom and Richard Darby

Patricia Stewart and Michael O'Reilly

Gemma Tipton

Justyna Seniuta and Rene Satsi

Mary Conlon

Agnieszka Fejzer and Edgar Pill

Agnieszka Bloch

Maria Gasior

Aleksandra Wojcik

Cliona O'Flaherty

Anna and Stach Socha-Bystron
and
three anonymous sponsors

 

Please visit the fundit.ie website at

http://www.fundit.ie/project/self-portrait-exhibitions

 

 

 

Mind puzzles

Heroin, 46/56cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Message in a bottle, 24/30cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Mustache, 40/40cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Forgotten winter, 36/46cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Perfect wife, 46/36cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

After party, 40/30cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Melancholy, 46/36cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Mantis, 40/40cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Favor, 25/30cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Lilith, 30/25cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Picture, flower and something under, 46/36cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Ice lolly, 46/36cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Series of small works prepared for my forthcoming exhibition @ Queen Street Studios in Belfast 6.12 - 29.12.2012 where I will be showing my paintings with another artist Craig Donald (http://cargocollective.com/craigdonaldartist).

As always my work balance on the border between charm and weirdness. I want to put the viewer in the position of uncertainty and questions where the ambiguite of the situation leads to.

My characters are rooted in sad reality where lack of communication led to loss any relationships between them. Their life is a happy creation that lies beneath grief, pain and suppressed unger.

 

 
 

 

 

 

Self portrait

Look at the camera, 120/150cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

 Helen (Internal, External and Transversal), 3x30/25cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 Respectively, 189/150cm, oil on canvas, 2013

 Anxiety, 110/150cm, oil on canvas, 2013

 

 

 

In the shade of Chopin, 150/180cm, oil on canvas, 2013

First day, 40/40cm, oil on canvas, 2012

Atelier, 150c/120m, oil on canvas, 2012

She's shy, 40/50cm, oil on canvas, 2012

Retro, 30/25cm, oil on canvas, 2012

Birthday, 150/180cm, oil on canvas, 2013

 

Four of us, 40/40cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 Brothers, 36/46cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 Oak leaf, 46/35cm, oil on canvas, 2012

Wedding bouquet, 150/120cm, oil on canvas, 2012

Bow, 40/40cm, oil on canvas, 2012

Student, 30/40cm, oil on canvas, 2012

Anna, 50/40cm, oil on canvas, 2012

I have just started preparing for my solo show which is going to be held at the CIT Gallery Wandesford Quay, Cork in July 2013, touring to the LSAD Gallery, Limerick. It is an award for me as a winner of Manifest 2012  - Kinsale Festival Award - with  judges:Patrick Murphy (RHA), Trish Brennan (CCA / CIT) and Mike Fitzatrick  (curator of Manifest LIT).

This show titled "Self portrait" will present works based on my family old photographs. However I do not want to analize my roots or have a sentimental trip to the past. My intention is to reflect my melancholic mood and a feeling of hopelessness and emptiness due to the passing time. The death theme  is extremely close to my work.

Persian blue affair

Daddy's gift, 40/40cm, oil on canvas, 2012

Art is the matter of opinion and only misses the mark if it fails to encourage any comment. Art must intellectually and emotionally engage us and communicate itself in its own language, without any tedious captions. I always take a photography as a point of departure for my canvases. My paintings are telling stories people left alone in the cruel realities, in life full of physical and sexual violence, war and death. Their shelter - or rather its lack - becomes everyday life and its acceptance. I am trying to sketch life in a different way. I am not indifferent to what is going on around me. There is such a massive onslaught of cruel and violent scenes blurring the line between reality and unreality that our sensitivity has been weakened. I am exploring the complexity of human mind and personality trying to find and identify where the border between bestiality and humanity lies. If there is any. I hope my paintings are able to restore people’s sensibility, which is fundamental.

 

 

Thirty distinguished people

30 distinguished people, 150/150cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

The deep sea shade

Patience I, 50/40cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Patience II, 40/30cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Patience III, 40/50cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Patience IV, 30/30cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Patience V, 40/50cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Patience VI, 30/40cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Patience VII, 40/30cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Patience VIII, 40/50cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Patience IX, 50/56cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Patience X, 50/60cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

 Patience XI, 30/30cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Patience XII, 30/40cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

PatienceXIII, 30/40cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

Patience XIV, 90/120cm, oil on canvas, 2012

 

 

 

From Psychology blue as the colour of the sky and the ocean is one of the most popular colours. It causes the opposite reaction as red. Peaceful, tranquil blue causes the body to produce calming chemicals.

Through these paintings  I am not trying to deal with the past. I am trying to preserve the present. Awareness of the cruelty that surrounds us should teach everyone to respect life.

This album is dedicated to the victims of war and human bestiality. It is based on photographs found in various books and the internet about II World War.

I am not interested in the political, religious or nationalistic aspect of my characters. The artist’s task is to be beyond boundaries and tend to ask questions rather than provide answers. Suffering knows no faith, sexuality or skin color. Intolerance and racism they know them all….

I called this series “Patience" and the painting process gave me a lot of thoughts and reflections about the human condition.  I do believe this is an important part of my learning and developing.