About
JOANNA KAUCZ
THE ART OF SELF-CONTROL
A painter or a journalist investigating a crime, a documentary filmmaker or a photographer coolly recording a difficult-to-capture moment of violence, a state of transition? The film frame is frozen still, as if everything were really happening, all the time, only we don’t know it.
Who is Joanna Kaucz? Why does she pose nude for herself, why does she use such realistic obviousness to create an illusion of colourful, pretty and nice works, so that a moment later we get the message that what we see is not quite what we are supposed to see?
She kills herself, causes herself pain, enjoying her excellent technique, showing us her distance towards life and herself.
The extraordinary magnetism of her paintings allows us to move beyond figurativeness to the world of imagination.
The exhibition THE ART OF SELF-CONTROL is the first show of works by Joanna Kaucz in a Wrocław art gallery in nearly ten years. At mia ART GALLERY, the artist will present a selection of her latest paintings, complemented by the best works from the earlier stages of her career.
She reaches for enormous canvasses one moment, only to make a precise painting on a tiny cutting board the next. She is unpredictable. She shows mainly herself, but it is only a pretext to show humanity in general.
What will you see?
Joanna Kaucz
Born in 1981 in Wrocław. Graduate of the Eugenius Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. In 2007, she defended a diploma at the Faculty of Printmaking in the Professional Drafting Studio of Prof. E. Get-Stankiewicz, and in 2009, at the Faculty of Painting and Sculpture in the 9th Painting Studio of Prof. A. Dymitrowicz and the Painting Design Studio in Architecture and Urban Design of Prof. W. Kaniowski. Since 2012, she has been an assistant at the Department of Painting of the Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. Author of individual exhibitions and participant of many group exhibitions in Poland and abroad. She paints, draws and make computer graphics. She lives and works in Wrocław.
JOANNA KAUCZ
THE ART OF SELF-CONTROL
painting exhibition
24.03 – 7.04.2018
mia ART GALLERY
Św. Mikołaja 61-62
50-127 Wrocław
Partners:
All That Art! Foundation
Sleepwalker.pl
Fabrykasensu.pl
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