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SCULPTURES
Empty Sky, 2000
/ National Centre of Sculpture, Orońsko - plaster, mirror
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untitled,1993 14 Artists From Poznan / Yad Labanim Museum, Petah-Tikva, Israel
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The Converted Image, 2004 Japanese Culture Center-Manggha, Cracow
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Diploma works 1990 / Gallery Wielka, Poznań - ceramic
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The language of shape is the source of the sculptor’s art. Agata is drawing from that source calmly and with great tenderness. She removes from nature fragments of reality, she juxtaposes various matters, placing them with great care in the space she has found. She approaches with equal care the space she enters and the object she has created. The forms of objects and entered space are like water and vessel. The sculpture flows, softly permeates the place, sometimes hiding the subject. There is always a kind of symbiosis, one results from another. The contrasts employed, of black and white, cloth and stone, smoothness and roughness, light and shadow, subdued hues and strong, aggressive colours are not exhausting, but are felt to be essential. Everything is marked with discretion and harmony, is sophisticated.
EMPTY SKY 2000
presented in Orońsko Polish Sculpture National Gallery
This work
was created inside an old orangery and possible to see from the outside glass
walls of the building. The distance between created situation and outer world
is emphasized by unnatural white floor covered with an alabaster gypsum. In the
closed, clean, ascetic interior space, in the two opposite rooms there were two
objects: a gypsum cast of a kneeling woman cut in the waist and a round mirror
sunk into the floor. this work was giving a feeling of lack of the fulfillment,
emptiness and distance. Just like the viewer could not to cross the
conventional border appointed by an artist, that kneeling, frozen figure,
symbolizing detachment from the world of senses and emotions, was fated for the
unknowableness its own face.
UNTITLED 1993
presented in Lad Labanin Museum, Israel
In the beginning of the
ninetieth the artist realized a series of works in which appeared motive of a
dish- jug, a very symbolic form. multiplied, gypsum casts, in different sizes,
used to create usually consistent arrangement of supporting each other
elements. The apparent stability of forms, connected to each other by metal
bars, ropes, ingots, metal sheets seems to loose its balance and get destroyed
in any sudden moment. The work realized in 1995 on the Negev desert in Israel closed
that series. Now, the jugs are reduced to shiny, white semiballs, spread for
several dozens meters. The strong construction, chained, existing in the prior
works, here is replaced by a thin, metal rope, functioning more as an esthetic
than constructional element.
THE CONVERTED IMAGE 2004
presented in Japanese Culture Center-Manggha, Cracow
Artist
fills the space of the gallery with dozens of picture frames, covered with
white canvas. Three of them are illuminated by the bright-yellow light emitted
from the projectors located on the floor. According to physics, the light,
coming through the lenses, creates an upside -down image, but we cannot see it
unreal, just like we cannot to judge where is the top and where is noticing.
Only a clean, potential, symmetric situation waiting to be filled up. The sole
sure and immutable element of the exposition is the line, created by a thin,
yellow thread, crossing each canvas in the middle, creating a specific horizon,
stopping our sight and giving us feeling of confidence. Everything what is
beyond, can be put upside - down, can convert in any moment, it can become
something else. It also relates to us.
DIPLOMA WORKS 1990
presented in Gallery Wielka Poznań
The work, composed of
numerous ceramic, openwork cubes, occupied the central part of the gallery. The
fragile, delicate walls set on the plan of a cross were a counterweight for the
stable architecture. The project implying a possibility to go beyond the space
of the gallery and to extend (stretch) the arrangement in all directions began
a series of “site specific works” interacting with the surroundings.
UNTITLED 1999
presented in CSW Ujazdowski Castel -Centre for Contemporary Art
This is one of many
projects with which the artists attempts to “describe” space. She introduces
into the interiors seemingly unrelated elements: a long, plaster surface, a
white scroll ended with metal blades, a metal bar fixed between the floor and
the ceiling, panels covering windows. They constitute a kind of words,
expressions, which together can be read as a full sentence. The artist
perceives space as a place that is alive, has its own history which can be
uncovered and understood.
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