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Joanna Woś

Untitled, 2024170 x 80 x 3cm18000 EUR
Details
MaterialGallery
Oil on linenGaleria Wschód
Description
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The artwork features the bold, minimalist text "DOCENT" in a neutral gray hue against a clean, white background. The typography stands out as the central subject, emphasizing simplicity and directness. The overall composition is striking in its elegant visual clarity, reflecting a contemporary, conceptual approach. The use of just a single word as the focal point suggests an emphasis on language, communication, or the role of the docent (guide) in interpreting and presenting artwork. This minimalist piece likely explores themes of education, art appreciation, or the relationships between art, language, and institutional frameworks. ...

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Joanna Woś
Artist
Joanna Woś
B.1991, Polish

Joanna Woś's artworks examine the topics of sexuality and power dynamics, and they are created in a dreamy style inspired by the elaborate symbolic language present in traditional painting. By referencing scenes from pornographic films and religious compositions from the Catholic tradition, Woś blends multiple perspectives and spaces into her canvases to depict female protagonists caught in several parallel psychological realities. Her paintings' spectral and figurative scene is full of emotional and narrative intensity. Instead of trivialising sex, Woś portrays its complex power, including its potential for manipulation, danger, and even death, as well as its connection to love and affection. Using a grisaille style and applying thin layers of oil paint, Woś's work evokes the erotic paintings of the 20th-century brother painters Pierre Klossowski and Balthus. The critical difference is that the female figure is not portrayed as a fetishised object but as a conflicted subject grappling with sexual and moral uncertainty. ...

Joanna Woś: Artworks
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Joanna WośUntitled, 2022Price on Request
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Joanna WośUntitled, 2022Price on Request
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Joanna WośUntitled, 2022Price on Request
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Joanna WośUntitled, 2022Price on Request
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Joanna WośUntitled, 2022Price on Request
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Joanna WośUntitled, 2022Price on Request
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Joanna WośUntitled, 2023Price on Request
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Joanna WośUntitled, 202322896 USD
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Joanna WośUntitled, 202324531 USD
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Joanna WośUntitled, 202420000 EUR
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Joanna WośUntitled, 202420000 EUR
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Joanna WośUntitled, 202418000 EUR
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Joanna WośUntitled, 20248000 EUR
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Joanna WośUntitled, 20248000 EUR
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Joanna WośUntitled, 20243500 EUR
Galeria Wschód
Gallery
Galeria Wschód
Warsaw, New York City, Köln

Wschód /vshood/ translates to sunrise, new beginning. It also refers to geographical east. Wschód is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2017 in Warsaw by curator and critic Piotr Drewko. The gallery represents international artists working across a wide spectrum of practices including video, sculpture, installation, painting. Apart from the exhibition program the gallery initiates a wide range of cultural activities – publication, institutional projects, podcasts in collaboration with artists, curators, critics. In 2018, Wschód initiated a gallery exchange program Friend of a Friend. In 2022 the gallery conceived a time-shared exhibition space ECHO in Cologne. Starting from the Fall of 2023, Wschód has expanded to New York with a yearly curated program of exhibitions and video / film projects. ...