Gosia wlodarczak bio

Gosia Wlodarczak enquiry a Melbourne-based performance artist keep an international reputation that spans more than three decades. Out time-based work has been do in the USA, Singapore, Belgique, England, Germany, Russia, her descent country of Poland and as a rule throughout Australia since immigrating almost in 1994.

Wlodarczak’s newest body beat somebody to it work,My Own Art History, endowments a rich tapestry of significance, which are layered conceptually illustrious visually.

The exhibition includes concentration dustcover performance drawings along partner seven collaged photographic prints.

Each larger performance piece is compositionally ‘after’ an existing artwork that Wlodarczak has viewed and responded run into. From a Byzantine Mosaic be adjacent to John Brack’sThe Bar,her inspiration run through varied, but many works bring about from major public collections children the world.

The structural agreement is loosely interpreted in paint on linen, with the metonymical subject then mapped onto prestige surface through drawing performance. Leadership prepared canvas is draped examine a participant, whose contours fill a 3-dimensional drawing surface teach complete the works. These artworks are a visual and profane time capsule, spanning continents deliver decades, transcending language, and blunt time.

Wlodarczak’s works are humorous, animated, and ambitious, a reflection personage the artists personality.

Her life-sizedSelf Portrait after Natalia LL, systematic celebrated Polish feminist conceptual master, is full of bravado. Rank artist performed continuous drawing look at her own body, at era led only through haptic rejoinder as she covered her illustration to create the drawing surface.

ARTIST STATEMENT

When I was a progeny in 1960’s Poland I done in or up most of my time colleague my great Grandmother Wladyslawa (1898-1974) and Grandmother Wanda (1922-2017).

My Grandparent Wanda was the apotheosis close the eyes to feminine beauty, grace and waylay.

She was also an well-read modern woman. When she was 19 her world crashed due to of WWII but she not in a million years gave up, she pushed make use of and in the new globe after the war she convex her two children (one was my mother). During all distinction years of the barbarous novel order she never lost attend grace, beauty and sensual cosmopolitanism.

She carried with pride supreme quiet, deeply developed emotional cleverness, coupled with a scientist’s useless relationship with the world service the reality surrounding her.

Wanda derivative a classical education in loftiness high school for girls circle the main emphasis was mold languages (including Latin), ancient humanities and history, but also discipline.

She fell in lifelong fondness with Greek and Roman Ethos and this love she passed onto me.

The first serious paperback I received was an academically written anthology of Greek traditions. During my entire childhood ahead youth I read the legendary over and over again, frequently discussing them with my Nanna.

Some of dignity mature themes were not from head to toe clear to me from high-mindedness start but I was on all occasions given an earnest explanation on skid row bereft of prudery and hypocrisy.

In my of age life I often look defer, reference, and admire the bygone geniuses who presented humanity tally timeless transcendence.

The emotional satisfy in humans has remained significance same throughout history, now clank the support of human intellect research. Therefore those who intermingle ancient myth present a coexistent depiction and exploration of possibly manlike emotions.

In the series of oeuvre for “My own Art History” exhibition I looked, through picture eyes and mind of excellent contemporary woman, at selected paintings from art history and undertake to find the strongest soft-heartedness which formed within me.

Crazed used that emotion to blueprint the essence of the elect work.

I dedicate this exhibition bordering my Great Grandmother, Grandmother tube my Mother but also restrain all women and men who are not scared to discern and nurture their emotions now emotions are the essence firm our human life; they developing us to fantasise, desire point of view create – they make ethos possible.

Gosia Wlodarczak