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Agnieszka Grodzinska is a student of fifth year of a Faculty of Artistic Education, Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. She is doing two specializations: criticism and art promotion and artistic workshops. From the beginning of her education she participates in projects of IV Faculty of Painting managing by a professor Jerzy Kalucki and PhD Wojciech Lazarczyk. She participated in many exhibitions, as individual, as collective, among others: Art must be beautiful - students from Izabella Gustowska studio (Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan), (2008), Galeria Stary Browar, Poznan; Sme tu/ Jestesmy tutaj, Povazska Galeria Umienia, Zilina, Slovakia (2007), Nikdy nebolo lepsie, Stanica, Zilina, Slovakia (2007), Automatons , ON Gallery, Poznan (2008).
She actively acts in Starter Association, which occupies itself with promotion of young artists's art and arranges exhibitions (www.starter.org.pl). For two years, together with Natalia Calus (also a student of Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan) she creates an artistic group Rzniety Krysztal (Cut Glass). They organize exhibitions: Playground, Starter Gallery, Poznan (2007), Automatons, Galeria ON, Poznan (2008); make movies: In the eye of the storm, you can say good morning and good night simultaneously, wyliczanka; write critical essays.

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PAINTING


 

Untitled 06  from cycle Not so pretty as we think, they are ugly and they stink, 2007
acrylic, gumbit on canvas 250 x 140 cm    ■  more works


Diamont, 2007 - ovn technique on canvas  140x200 cm
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Non Optimum”  from cycle Natural Sprinters 2007
acrylic, gumbit on canvas 79 x 79 cm    ■  more works

Untitled, 2007 - ovn technique on canvas  70x100 cm
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Untitled, 2007 - ovn technique on canvas  92x110 cm
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Untitled, 2007 - ovn technique on canvas  160x170 cm
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PAINTING, INSTALLATION


Never would be better, 2008  - color chalk on the blackboard            ■  more works


Never would be better, 2008  - color chalk on the blackboard            ■  more works

Nikdy nebolo lepse
21-28.06.2007, STANICA, ZILINA, SLOVAKIA,
curated by Matej Vakula
Artists: Matej Vakula, Martin Bastyjan Sedl·k, Martin äpirec -SLOVAKIA, Agnieszka Grodzinska, Jakub Czyszczon, Daniel Szwed, Honza Zamojski - Polska

"Considering a title of an exhibition I was going two different paths, which started to close each other in time. The first one went from the childhood, time about which we used to say that itís the best period of our lives. We used to think about a young man as about unwritten page, a sponge absorbing knowledge and behavior patterns. The second path was closer to curatorís concept, who wanted to show a contemporary time of ìstorm and pressureî, the beginning of capitalistic welfare, he wanted to show this with a light batting an eyelid but also with a nostalgia. Admiration of MTV, Lego, Barbie, matchboxes, noisy music and entertainment magazines. We were the first generation of such freedom, we could bravely say then ìit was never so good!î. Installation that I made in Zilina was an attempt to join these two contexts, a reflection on an educational process which evolves proportionally with economic-cultural development, sometimes outdistancing it, sometimes slipping away control".
A.Grodzinska

Starter gallery Poznan 2007                                  ■  more works

Not so pretty as we think, they are ugly and they stink,
Starter Gallery, Poznań 2007
*within the „Stars wars” exhibition cycle.

Painting’s installation is accompanied additionally by looped sound – animals’ voices – in real fragments separated from hip hop tunes.
It’s hard to escape unclear feeling that monkeys are not just monkeys (!) – intelligent animals, who instinctively use their own sexuality.
 

 

Starter gallery Poznan 2007                             ■  more works

Action in outsides gallery, Poznan, 2007                 
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Untitled
Outsiders Gallery, Poznań, 2007

In a frame of this project an idea arose of an “appropriation” of the closest environment, of people and organize this place. A hair-clip metamorphosed into a tool, and a long-lasting process of combing concentric Earth’s circles reminds a conquistador’s invasion.

Action in outsides gallery, Poznan, 2007                      
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FILM

In the eye of the storm, you can say good morning
and good night simultaneously
2 channel video, loop

As title of the film, as its action reminds the eye of cyclone, in which wind is weak and even subsiding. In this place there is no rainfall, but a slightly higher temperature and very low pressure. We can call such state to describe human condition in the confrontation with time. Masses of information, multitude of stimuli and speed of changes cause that we cant keep pace. Rush we are subjected renders impossible to analyze and contemplate “data”. We are standing in front of the question: or to surrender oneself to this condition, or reject this. Wishing to find ourselves in this reality, we condemn ourselves to functioning in proverbial “eye of cyclone”, where though temperature rages around us, our pulse reacts disproportionately.

Some things are not gone with the time
1 channel video, 1’56’’

                                                                                            
DRAWINGS