The Rock and the Thread I

Karolina Bielawska

The Rock and the Thread I, 2023180 x 160cmSign in to view price
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acrylic, gouache, bitumen paint on canvasGaleria Wschód
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This abstract artwork features a minimalist composition with a prominent curved black line and a soft, elliptical shape in muted shades of beige and cream. The overall effect is one of simplicity and balance, emphasizing the interplay of negative and positive space. The artist's use of clean lines and subtle color palette suggests a focus on form and geometric elements, characteristic of the geometric abstract style. The work likely aims to evoke a sense of serenity and contemplation through its elegant, pared-down visual language. ...

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Karolina Bielawska
Artist
Karolina Bielawska
B.1986, Polish

Karolina Bielawska (b.1986) is a Polish Warsaw-based artist, working with the medium of painting and sculpture. Her characteristic style centers around a monochromatic palette complemented by carefully selected colors. Her forms offer ambiguous narrative modes: fractal lines and marks, accompanied by biomorphic and asymmetric shapes reminiscing mysterious silhouettes. Bielawska’s work signalizes the inter-dependability between elements that surround us. If one component crumbles, then the whole piece falls apart. There is thus an intimate relationship between the macro and the micro, between the compositions and the emotions they invoke, and between the detail and the whole. Bielawska’s visual language communicates a desire for harmony that constantly collides with violence, oppression, and brutality, turning the canvases into sites of tension and conflict. Bielawska takes this chaos and totalizes it into patterns. The controlled figures have a soothing effect on our senses. There is a calmness in anticipating what might come next. Bielawska sees her works as products of her contemplation about feelings and the possibilities of portraying them. The internal and personal sphere is what the artist is preoccupied with. She also finds that the energy, the emotional charge, and the memory of a particular place influence her work, herein shaping a site-specific sensibility. Among Bielawska’s distinctive methods is the use of bitumen paint. She shares the concept behind this strategy: “I started using bitumen paint a few years ago when looking for a material that would relate to a resistant, heavy, flooding mass, similar to asphalt. I painted a series of paintings that referred to the idea of home – as a dream asylum. I wanted to find examples of such houses in the urban space and I chose villas from the interwar period. One of them was demolished because it hindered the construction of a new asphalt road in Warsaw. I decided in some – but not literal – way to use such a destructive, flooding element in my own pieces. Bitumen paint turned out to be the right solution. I liked its earthy black and its roughness. I began using it in subsequent paintings and installations because it fit well into the broader context of my works – wrestling, struggling, persevering despite instability”. ...

Karolina Bielawska: Artworks
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Karolina Bielawska
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The Rock and the Thread I
Karolina Bielawska
The Rock and the Thread I, 2023
180 x 160cm
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. ...

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