South London Women Artists group show at the Stephen Lawrence Centre

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TENDER
39 Brookmill Road, London SE8 4HU
04-28 March 2013
SLWA is proud to exhibit at the award-winning centre during the Stephen Lawrence Centre Women’s Week. Specially commissioned works on paper will be on show and all available to buy, with 50% of the sales revenue to be donated to the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. The exhibition is in the drop-in gallery located in the foyer, during the centre’s regular opening hours.
An entire week’s activities are programmed to take place 4 – 8 March. Doreen Lawrence has extended a personal invitation to everyone to attend the free events, including workshops, pampering sessions, lectures, advice sessions and the Women’s Awards 2013.
Tender: ‘A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like.’
Private view: Tuesday 05 March 2013. 6 – 8 pm
The Tender exhibition continues until 28 March.

Open House – Open art Studio Voltaire 5-6th October

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Open Studio Voltaire


I am delighted to invite you to the OPEN HOUSE – open studio in  Studio Voltaire on the 5th-6th October 2012. 

I will be showing my new work and experimentation  (studio 6) along with other Studio’s artists.



OPEN HOUSE:

Friday 5 October  2012, 6 – 9pmSaturday 6 October  2012, 12 – 6pmFree, no booking requiredFor two days the artists at Studio Voltaire will open their workspaces to the public bringing a unique opportunity to view the diverse range of artworks that are produced within the 30 studios onsite. The event will also include a series of talks, screenings and special exhibitions.Facebook RSVP




 Beata Kozlowska, Homage to modenism- expect far and beyond…, 
installation detail,  Studio Voltaire, 2012

 Beata Kozlowska, Homage to modenism- expect far and beyond…,
installation view,  Studio Voltaire, 2012

Beata Kozlowska, The red miles of wool- procession..installation detail,
studio Voltaire, 2012

Beata Kozlowska, Glimpse of the New …coming, drawing, pen and tape on paper,
Studio Voltaire, 2012

Constructing the New Order

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Beata Kozlowska, The New Eldorado, Outdoor installation view, Aspex
Beata Kozlowska, The New Eldorado, Outdoor view, Aspex
 
The second week of my work became more settled , I gradually started using materials I chose in the first week to have a good process of figuring out/ putting elements together in the new order….  My work seems to be very controlled in many cases. But this control is derived from utopian aspiration to Harmony and balance…
The first series of work I called ‘The New Eldorado’ as a reference to pop culture and the myth built around the golden age of prosperity. Golden plastic lid, purity of blue, orange and White… Colour is another indication of unifying and enabling symbiosis within the object.  I was also experimenting with already existing natural ‘presupposition’ of brought objects. I use them in assemblages, mini- installation, Solaris, with mirrors, metal bars, round shapes of the records, lampshades…


Beata Kozlowska, Solaris, installation details, Aspex



Beata Kozlowska, Late One Evening, Aspex
Beata Kozlowska, Late One Evening, Detail, Aspex
 
The elements are assembled and constructed in a particular way, they may resemble maquette of the city, dysfunctional furniture or imaginary design subliminally referencing modernism, Post-Duchampian tradition of ready-made, interior design of Bauhaus and domesticity…the references are endless, the objects are open like a text for further interpretation…The Game is never-ceasing, established rules of having limitation within plurality was a great experiment…


Beata Kozlowska, Neue Sachlichkeit, Aspex



 



Beata Kozlowska, Neue Sachlichkeit, installation detail, Aspex



Beata Kozlowska, Neue Sachlichkeit, installation detail, Aspex
 
 
Beata Kozlowska, Volant piece upon me, Aspex



Beata Kozlowska, Volant piece upon me, Aspex



 
 
At the end of the week I was tempted to create ironic harmony, merely maintaining a balance within the assembled objects. Orange mini columns, reminiscent of negative furniture, are fragilly supporting each other balancing on the red string…
The process of creating my work was so similar to the process of my usual art practice. I found the project relieving and inspiring.  Also I had a chance to collaborate/ or rather interact not only with fellow artists ( Nicola Dale, Jason Tylor, Andy Parker), but also with enthusiastic audience.

‘Working Title’- experimental project in Aspex gallery in Portsmouth

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Beata Kozlowska, After the Fall, Aspex
Beata Kozlowska, Solaris, installation detail, Aspex Gallery
Beata Kozlowska, Broadening the View‘Working Title, Aspex
 
On the first day of my arrival to Aspex gallery on Sunday, I was impressed by the good choice of brought ‘public’ objects.
Following my intuition, I started immediately selecting wide range of objects, part- elements, prefabricates….
The selection of elements is purely improvisational and rather dictated by aesthetic symbiosis within the assemblage.

 

Beata Kozlowska, The New Eldorado, Aspex



Beata Kozlowska, The New Eldorado, detail, Aspex



My first installation is deliberately limited to round shapes, lines, reflection of stripes of randomly selected elements. It became an intriguing  Game for me as an artist and the viewer. I intend to make links between disparate elements and materials with unconscious desire to find HARMONY And CLARITY in unwanted/ rejected/ negative… The necessity to construct a new ORDER based on existing, may have some inner roots in deconstruction similar to metaphor of ‘reborning the Phoenix from Ashes’ for the sake  of clarifying and relieving…

Beata Kozlowska, AnneXing, Aspex (studio view work in progress)



Beata Kozlowska, Untitled C, Aspex



Art Residency in Klaipeda Cultural and Communication Centre- Opening of the final installation on the courtyard of Parodu Rumai

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Opening of the final installation on the courtyard of Parodu Rumai in Klaipeda

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Pilgrimage -installation, mixed media, July 2011



Pilgrimage,  installation view, July 2011



Pilgrimage,  installation detail, July 2011
Pilgrimage,  installation detail, July 2011
Pilgrimage,  installation detail, July 2011

Pilgrimage,  installation detail, July 2011

Pilgrimage,  installation detail, July 2011

Pilgrimage,  installation view, July 2011

Pilgrimage,  installation detail, July 2011

My work created during the Residency at KCCC has been predominantly influenced by the interesting mixture of historic architecture and industrial part of the City port, with overwhelming cranes, platforms and docks.

I was searching for source in order to make my work, as I usually use in my artistic practice found elements, mundane and recycled materials.
I was astonished when I came across industrial skip in Klaipeda…

KCCC Exhibition Hall presents: ‘Pilgrimage’ interview with Beata Kozlowska

My sculptural installation consists of several objects, based on found pieces of furniture, ropes, part-objects, which are assembled in an intuitive and playful way.
In my work there is a domination of geometry, visible in cubes, triangles, squares, and rectangles of the silhouette of the assemblage. Quasi-geomertical instllation is disrupted by playful interventions within the object and the whole installation space.

This geometry, hidden order of the calmness of the CITY, has its own Natural Existence, chess-like plan of streets, patterns on the road, pavements, fechwerk of historic buildings.
At the same time, Klaipeda as the CITY Port has its unknown factor of constant fussion of ideas, turists and traditions mixed with STABLE NATURAL unstappable FLOW of LIFE.

My work is also a constant reference to other aesthetic languages of moderinism, minimalism, postminimalism, constructivism and Post-duchampian tradition of ready made.

I tend to see the object as a starting point for my artistic and playful improvisation.
There is also an urge for aestheticization of EVERYDAY life through seeing beauty in unwanted.

Forthcoming Artist Residency for JULY 2011 to Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre (KKKC) in Klaipeda, (Lithuania)

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I am delighted to announce that I was invited for an Artist residency for JULY 2011 to Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre (KKKC) in Klaipeda, (Lithuania).

I will be posting my pictures and documentation of my work in such an exciting seaside location!

‘Residing artists are encouraged to produce works of art that specifically suit Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre‘s gallery and „The Yard of the Art“ space that belongs to the Centre. Artists are also recommended to engage in creative experiments, innovations, public presentation of their works (educational lectures, discussions) as well as interactive creative projects that would involve participation of local people’.

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