zalinska
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Kunstart: Malerei
Technik: Mischtechnik
Statement:
These are desolate images, which Maria Zalinska shows us of the city; blind walls, empty spaces, dark shadows.
In each painting, a large and centrally placed woman dominates the view. Never does she show her face. While the city is painted with covering, heavy monochromes, the woman’s body is often not more than a pencil outline on the naked canvas.
The woman; young, pretty and powerful, stays dim.
This lonely and omnipresent one, is the only living thing in the grey and empty geometry of the city. Her sexuality is a mysterious, overpowering force of nature.
Vita / Lebenslauf:
Though my work is largely figurative, in my mind I move on the borders of abstract.
In my work I express a love-hate relationship towards people and all that’s man-made. Though subjects I work on may seem diverse, this relationship is their common ground.
Aktivitäten / Ausstellungen:
2010 -2011- Portraying walls – a continuation of the drawing series “Walls/Berlin”.
2010 - Installation “Forever Green” at the river bank in Warsaw.
2008-2009 - “Strange rituals” about the meaning of religious rituals – a combination of small paintings and collages with accompanying text backed by a research.
2008 - “Entgleitung” – location specific installation made of grass, at the II Ostrale in Dresden, D.
- “Von Maulwurfen und Menschen” – location specific installation at the KunstOrt Garten exhibition in Halle (Westf.)
2006-2010 - Regular illustrations for Le Monde Diplomatique, polish edition.
2007 - Hand painted billboard, on invitation from Galeria Rusz (Torun, PL).
- Drawing and painting series: “Walls/Berlin” and “Grey series” during the residency time in Berlin.
2006 - Curator of a group exhibition in Berlin, Germany, titled THE OBSERVER STATUS, about the disappearing of the private space. In cooperation with Natalie Espinosa (Berlin, D).
- Project “The Observers” in Berlin (indoor mural/installation experiment).
2005-2006 - ‘Elevator man’ - 18 big format drawings forming a story. Exhibited in deVishal, Haarlem, NL.
2004 - Story-book ‘Children and fish have no voice’, own print management.
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2011 - Materials Stipend from the Käthe Dorsch – und Agnes Straub - Stiftung
2006/07 - 1 year residency in Berlin, Germany, with full stipend from the Foundation for Visual Art and Design (Fonds BKVB www.fondsbkvb.nl) in Amsterdam.
2005 - Startstipendium (beginner grant 14.000 €) from Fonds BKVB (the Netherlands).
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