{"id":3050,"date":"2021-11-27T13:38:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T13:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galeriafoksal.pl\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2022-01-24T13:38:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T13:38:52","slug":"izabela-chamczyk-toxic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galeriafoksal.pl\/en\/izabela-chamczyk-toxic\/","title":{"rendered":"Izabela Chamczyk, Toxic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opening day: Saturday, November 27, 2021, 12-8pm<\/strong><\/p>\n

27.11.2021 \u2013 21.01.2022<\/p>\n

Curator: Katarzyna Krysiak<\/p>\n

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Exhibition TOXIC<\/em> will be a premiere presentation of \u201cperformative paintings,\u201d a category conceived by the artist. It will be accompanied by a video montage showing the successive stages of the making of the individual works, all of which date from the last two years.<\/p>\n

Performative painting is processual and sensual in nature. It arises over time, through the artist\u2019s actions, using her own, unique technique, then in the course of transformations occurring in the structure and form of the surface of the painting itself, during the spilling, dripping, stretching, and finally in the process of the hardening of the paints and resins, which already beyond the artist\u2019s control. The result is an organic painting\/object that bursts out of the surface of the canvas, sometimes almost \u201cexploding\u201d towards the viewer. What is the essence here, however, is not the finite work, but rather the process of its formation, which is why recording the successive sequences through photography or video is equally important for Chamczyk as the work itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhotographs documenting painting actions become stories about something that could be called the physiology of pictures, and a physiology in an experimental version, conducted in the artist\u2019s own studio\/laboratory. These are stories about the functioning of painterly organisms and about the forcible materiality, or even corporeality, of paints,\u201d writes Grzegorz Borkowski about these works.<\/p>\n

Chamczyk emphasizes also the immense importance of colour in her paintings. Colour, for her, is the principal medium of everything that she wants to express. Moods, spiritual states are enchanted in it. In this context, the title of the show TOXIC<\/em> relates not only to the chemical fumes of the substances that she worked with when painting, but also speaks potently about the accompanying emotional states.<\/p>\n

Izabela Chamczyk<\/strong> is a painter, performer, and video artist. In 2009, she graduated cum laude with a major in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroc\u0142aw; she also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Pozna\u0144 in the studio of Dominik Lejman.<\/p>\n

Chamczyk makes processual, sensual, emotional art that refers to sexuality and corporeality. She has coined the term \u201cperformative painting,\u201d combining the picture with an ongoing performance. She works in multiple media, redefining their boundaries, confronting herself and entering in a living dialogue with the audience, which involves strong emotions. Through her art, she seeks to reach through to the realm of the outside world, beyond the gallery.<\/p>\n

She is a three-time recipient of grants from the Minister of Culture and National Heritage, a finalist of prestigious competitions, such as the Vordemberge\u2013Gildewart Foundation Competition at the MOCAK, the Hestia Artistic Journey Competition, the \u201cBielsko Autumn\u201d Painting Biennale, the Eugeniusz Geppert Competition in Wroc\u0142aw, or the Triennial of Young Artists in Oro\u0144sko. She has participated in individual and group exhibitions and projects at venues such as the Foksal Gallery (Warsaw), SCC Gallery (Isfahan, Iran), Musrara Festival (Israel), Zach\u0119ta Project Room (Warsaw), Museum of Modern Art (Warsaw), Gierowski Foundation (Warsaw), Entropia Gallery (Wroc\u0142aw), Bia\u0142a Gallery and Labirynt Gallery (both Lublin), GSW (Opole), BWA Zielona G\u00f3ra, CSW Toru\u0144, Mosart (Gorz\u00f3w Wielkopolski), \u201cContexts\u201d International Festival of Ephemeral Art (Soko\u0142owsko), or ERARTA Festival (Sankt Petersburg, Russia).<\/p>\n

Her works are in many public and corporate collections, such as those of PKO Bank Polski, Andel\u2019s Hotel, Ergo Hestia, CSW Toru\u0144, Dolno\u015bl\u0105ska Zach\u0119ta Wroc\u0142aw, or the Performance Archive of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, as well as in numerous private collections in Poland and abroad.<\/p>\n