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Katarzyna Przezwańska’s works, shown for the first time as part of the Happiness Goodness Beauty exhibition at the Dawid Radziszewski Gallery in 2015, have become a definite watershed in the artist’s career. The sculptures, installations, and architectonic interventions she formerly engaged in have retreated into the background. Przezwańska has returned to the field of painting she had studied. Using non-standard materials (polyurethane and glazing varnish and MDF panels), she revisits questions concerning forms potentially assumed by contemporary painting, and whether it makes any sense to focus on the field in times of profound social and cultural change. Her pieces are styled along the aesthetic lines of graphic software while referencing modernist tradition—in her case, of artists representing American minimalism and the Polish avant-garde of the interwar period in particular. All else notwithstanding, Przezwańska’s ultimate objective is to make her works visually attractive and aesthetically pleasing to the viewer.

Creator of sculptures, objects, installations and architectonic interventions; painter. A painting graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, she references modernism in her work, in a way never before seen in Polish art. Her works allude to the modernist heroic period, still a time of optimism, hope, and bright colours, to a modernism of human-oriented architecture adapted to meet individual user’s needs. Przezwańska’s interventions, multi-coloured spatial projects and objects are an attempt at recovering and adapting selected ideas from the past for purposes of the present. Her work of recent years has been inspired by nature and earth sciences. Winner of the ING Polish Art Foundation Award in 2018 during Warsaw Gallery Weekend. She lives and works in Warsaw.