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Urszula Madera

Within and Without Frames

Curator : Opening : 28.05.2022 | mia ART GALLERY

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Urszula Madera "Within and Without Frames"
28.05 - 18.06.22
curator: Bogusław Deptuła
mia ART GALLERY, Plac Solny 11

The frame, is quite often the conclusive component of a painting… I know it may sound a bit strange, but on the other hand, it’s hardly surprising. The frame can indicate that the painting is finished, or even in some sense closed – because the frame can also close it.

While preparing works for her latest exhibition, Ula Madera bought wooden frames. The natural colour of the wood stood out strongly from the often strong contrasting colours of her paintings and reliefs. Purple, blue, pink, and orange are the strongest chords in the range of works created at this time. On the one hand, the purchased frames, on the other, the simplest wooden slats, which can also become frames or, on the contrary, components of reliefs.

She has also prepared carved plywood forms, with sigmoid shapes, which, when painted, are to become part of the reliefs. They have already appeared in earlier works. They have an individual character; they are something of a trademark for the artist. During the preparations, while the necessary components were being assembled, the idea arose to place these unobvious sigmoid shapes directly on the wall. To paint colourful backgrounds in the gallery space and attach these forms onto them. Therefore, the compositions to be created are, so to say, open, not just not-closed or not-framed, but not even having their usual wooden or canvas existence. Forms not only without frames, but also without a canvas, colourful reliefs in the temporarily colourful space of the gallery.

But they are not there yet. I haven’t even seen sketches or designs. They will appear at the last minute on the walls and in the space of the gallery. As I write about them, I am not at all sure of their final appearance – forms, colours, sizes. Ula and I have talked, yes, but how can I be sure of their final shape? The thing will happen a moment before the opening and will be a premiere event many times over.

Bogusław Deptuła



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