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REVIEW: prof. Grażyna Borowik
The subject of Malgorzata Czuchraj's art diploma is the interpretation
of city's architecture. It is a concise oil-on-canvas set of works.
Based on numerous earlier sketches, the author has performed a certain
reduction of components. Focusing on forms and structures essential for
the composition, Czuchraj seeks to discover the truths ordering our
perception of the world.
Penetrating one another geometrical shapes reflect life in its many
dimensions. In the author's own words from the paintings catalogue, the
pictures are "the record of time, places, dates, and hours". This set
of works is a kind of diary coded with colour, light and line. A subtle
spectrum of greys gives the pictures their metaphysical character. The
contrast between light and shade, and soft, low-lying stains mark the
space and perspective in pictures. Elements recovered from memory are
clustered together in new poetic compositions inviting the spectator to
their own personal interpretation. The world of Czuchraj, the painter,
seems paused, quiet and ordered, however, its internal tension provokes
associations, reflection, excavations in memory. There is nothing
obvious about these compositions. In the chaos of reality, the author
searches for direction, line, a point stabilising the picture of the
world. Engaging in interplay with an element she seeks to define form,
but in separation from its purely expressive motivation; she seeks, it
seems, the composition of the oeuvre in herself.
Referring to concrete architectural and urban principles, which turn
out to only be excuses for further explorations at the verge of
abstract and form, she seeks such means of artistic expression that
allow for her most comprehensive articulation. Czuchraj's paintings
somehow draw the spectator into non-existing worlds, revealing
subsequent motives she seems to be creating scenery for them.
This set of works composes an interesting wholeness, they are an
artistic attempt to pronounce something that escapes words.
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