PAINTINGS WITH DRAWINGS
DANUTA
NAWROCKA
Richa Agarwal Emami Chisel Art Gallery Director
Danuta Nawrocka’s art carries an extraordinary emotional charge. Nawrocka’s art release the feelings, which put the viewer into remarkable state of trance. Calm and solemn emotions at first start to vibrate, to pulse, to beat. Colour is intergrated with the drawing, metallic shades of gray are glittering and show the clarity of masterwork. The Artist’s works connect painting and drawing, where the drawing becomes the dominant element of composition and integral part of the piece of art. The drawing with the colour, the various tones of white, the pearly luminescence – timbre like a gently-touched string of the cello. Great compositions of colours show a wide variety of differing tone colors , shape the emotions and are like an impulse to cogitation. Each drawing line, every brush mark shows not only the artistic workshop, but also expression and the rythm. DaNa’s works are encoded and encrypted, and to open them we have to use a special key – the key is our imagination.
Richa Agarwal Emami Chisel Art Gallery Director
„Danuta Nawrocka’s creative work is multifaceted. The artist is identified primarily with painting, drawing and performance art. Still, there is yet another less recognizable streak in her, one which relates to popularizing the achievements of other people. It all adds up to one homogenous whole is such a way that all the four parts create a refined and distinctive character. First of all, her subtlety is so pronounced that all too clearly it shows in the context of many other artists’ strenuous efforts to be noticed in today’s realities regulating the art market.” Prof. Marian Stępak Toruń
While composing my paintings, I analyze the elusive and ambiguous concept of space in relation to time and place in which I create. Gesture is just a liberation of thought. While painting a picture, I dispel the myth of primacy of colour over the greyness of pencil lines – I integrate and weave both of the domains and so, naturally, I have built a style unique just to me.
Composition canvas, mixed technique 100x80, 2015
Composition canvas, mixed technique 100x80, 2015
Composition canvas, mixed technique 100x70, 2015
Composition canvas, mixed technique 100x70, 2015
No title canvas, mixed technique 100x70, 2015
No title canvas, mixed technique 100x70, 2015
No title canvas, mixed technique 100x70, 2015
Composition canvas, mixed technique 100x80, 2015
Composition canvas, mixed technique 30x30, 2015
Composition canvas, mixed technique 30x30, 2015
Composition canvas, mixed technique 30x30, 2015
No title canvas, acrylic 205x115, 2015
Mentre a dibattere sull’abisso consumo il presente, un rivolo di vita si annuncia distratto. Nel suo cenno di luce che pur cadendo non imputridisce, il segno colto sulla traccia dello squarcio celeste va per la tua strada, canta non tace un solo respiro, non smette di essere va! Ma è dentro che io vado perché quello squarcio è il segno che coglie il capriccio dell’anima e mi fa credere che vivere non è condanna non è dovere non è pena è gioia!
Claudio Fiorentini, Italia
No title canvas, acrylic 205x115, 2015
No title cardboard, acrylic 94x70, 2015
No title canvas, mixed technique 100x100, 2015
No title canvas, mixed technique 100x100, 2015
“You and Me” series canvas, mixed technique 50x40, 2014
“You and Me” series canvas, mixed technique 50x40, 2014
“You and Me” series canvas, mixed technique 50x40, 2014
No title canvas, mixed technique 50x40, 2014
No title canvas, mixed technique 50x40, 2014
Energy canvas, acrylic 60x50, 2015
“Whisper of my thoughts” series canvas, mixed technique 60x60, 2015
LIST DO ANIOŁA Aniele - stróżu mój, zgubiłeś białe pióro, a ono spadło na moje serce. Wybacz, że nie odczytałem tylu Twoich ostrzeżeń, których mi nie szczędziłeś. Masz rację ! Nie byłem ślepy. Nie byłem głuchy. Miałem wolną wolę i niestety korzystałem z niej zbyt często. Gorąco wierzę, że nie straciłeś zdolności latania, bo byłaby to moja ostatnia klęska.
Ryszard Ulicki, Polska
“Whisper of my thoughts” series canvas, mixed technique 60x60, 2015
Drętwą ręką rozgarniam piach nieistniejącej plaży Nużam swe palce w nadpływającej fali I liczę ziarna między paznokciami potem spluwam na swą dłoń unurzaną w mule Wycieram ją o drugą dłoń i krzyczę Żyję
Jan Joc, Polska
Music composed by Janusz Blecharz
“Whisper of my thoughts” series canvas, mixed technique 60x60, 2015
No title canvas, mixed technique 100x70, 2015
No title canvas, mixed technique 100x70, 2015
No title canvas, mixed technique 100x70, 2015
No title canvas, mixed technique 100x70, 2015
No title canvas, mixed technique 100x70, 2015
No title canvas, mixed technique 100x70, 2015
No title cardboard, mixed technique 100x70, 2015
No title cardboard, acrylic 100x70, 2015
REVIEW Danuta Nawrocka’s painting – My impressions Elaboration, subtle charm and finely delineated details – this is what struck me when I first saw Danuta Nawrocka’s painting. I get the impression that her paintings are musical instruments with an infinity of strings which the artist plucks or strikes to express her ideas and thoughts… Extremely subtle lines, much like a spider’s web, limited by the dimensions of canvas, but exceed their tight boundaries in order to continue their way beyond and into the limitless channels of imagination. The hallucinatory image forms of extraordinary delicacy, perceptible vibrations and rhythmic pulsations usher us into unique, indefinable realms – like music. The interventions of colour are accents that create an atmosphere of mystery and evoke feelings which draw us into the labyrinth of the uncharted spheres of the subconscious… From a distance, some of her works look like a microcosm. On closer examination, they astonish with intensity, internal organization, liveliness of the design. The artist’s colour scheme reminds me of the imaginary world of the Chinese lyrical abstractionist Zao Wou-ki. Due to her great sensitivity, as well as masterful craftsmanship, Danuta Nawrocka’s artistic output encourages a lot of reflection on the mystery of life and existence. prof Barbara Marcinkowska Paris 7th August 2015
BIOGRAPHY Danuta Nawrocka studied at Fine Arts Faculty, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (19851990). In 1990 got her diploma at prof. Mieczysław Wiśniewski studio. Post graduated studies in Creativity and Capacity at prof. Wieslawa Limont studio. Nawrocka express herself through painting, drawing, performance art, installation and sculpture. She had many individual and group exhibitions and took part in the art festivals in Poland and abroad. In 2008 she won the Audience Award of “Inowroclawska Plastyka 2008” Exhibition, in 2009 – the Mayor of Inowroclaw Town Award. In the same year she was honoured with the print of her foot in the Artists’ Alley in Nowogard. In 2013 she won INO ART Award. She is the member of the Union of Polish Artists and Designers. The projects of artistic glass designed by Nawrocka won the contest organized by “Irena” Glassworks in Inowroclaw. Collectors’ series of glass designed by Nawrocka can be found in more than 60 countries, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (including the Royal Family Court). The projects were presented also in New York and Toronto. Danuta Nawrocka’s works of art can be found in museums and private collections in Poland and abroad.
EXHIBITIONS INDIVIDUAL
2015 2015 2014 2011 2011 2011 2010 2010 2010 2010 2009 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2002 2001 2000 1995 1995
Lucfik Gallery, OW ZPAP Warsaw Museum of Water Supply, Water Tower Gallery, Bydgoszcz Museum of Koszalin „022” Gallery, Warsaw „Stary Ratusz” Gallery, Olsztyn „Painting”, Cultural Space, WSG University of Economy, Bydgoszcz Jazzownia Liberalna, Warsaw „Autograf” Gallery, Warsaw „Aktyn” Gallery, Warsaw ARS Gallery Fundation of Supporting Creativity of Culture and Art, Poznań Municipal Gallery – „Important Moments”, Nowogard Museum after Stanisław Noakowski „SITUATIONS”, Nieszawa Modern Art Gallery (Museum after Leon Wyczółkowski), Bydgoszcz Municipal Gallery, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany „Molier”, Gallery, Cracow „Arsenal”, Municipal Museum, Wrocław Municipal Gallery, Inowrocław „Mała” Gallery, Grudziądz „Dom Muz” Gallery, Toruń Municipal Gallery, Inowrocław ZPAP PSU Gallery, Lubań Museum after Jan Kasprowicz, Inowrocław
GROUP
2015 2015 2013 2012 2011 2011 2010 2009 2006 2006 2005 2003 2003 2003 2002 2000 1999 1998 1998 1998 1996 1995 1995
Mosan Art Museum, South Korea City Gallery of Lüdenscheid, Germany Rautenstoch, Doberlung – Kirchschain, Germany “The Warsaw Artists”, OW ZPAP Painting Exhibition, Lutzk, Ukraine 1st. International Conference “Idkart Trading”, Painting Exhibition, Warsaw Novotel, post—plein air exhibition International Painting Plein Air „Aviator II”, Warsaw Municipal Gallery, „Rejs. Port Artystyczny BSA”, Inowrocław Municipal Gallery, post—plein air exhibition – International Painting Plein Air, Nowogard International Art Festival “Bulwar Sztuki”,Toruń Museum after Jan Kasprowicz, Inowrocław Modern Art Fair, „Wozownia” Gallery, Toruń Polandwide Exhibition „Śladami Gombrowicza”, BWA Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski VI Fine Arts Biennale of Bydgoszcz, BWA Bydgoszcz „Antrakt”, Municipal Gallery, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany „Inowrocław—Bad Oeynhausen”, Town Hall Gallery, Inowrocław V Fine Arts Biennale of Bydgoszcz, BWA Bydgoszcz Town Hall Gallery, Inowrocław IV Fine Arts Biennale of Bydgoszcz, BWA Bydgoszcz „Nie jeden raz” Polandwide Exhibition, BWA Bydgoszcz—Wrocław Regional Museum, Barlinek III Fine Arts Biennale of Bydgoszcz, BWA Bydgoszcz Polandwide Exhibition „Akwarele znad Wisły”, PGSW, Włocławek „Inowrocław Artists Present”, Municipal Gallery, Inowrocław
PERFORMANCE WORKS
2012 2012 2012 2010 2010 2008 2008 2008 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2006 2006 2006 2005 2005 2005
„Perfidia Perfearance”, Gallery XX1 Warsaw, Orhodox Cementary, Warsaw „Polygonum”, Municipal Gallery BWA, Bydgoszcz “Hallo”, Painting Exibition, Municipal Gallery BWA, Bydgoszcz „Autograf” Gallery, (Danuta Nawrocka & Wojciech Kowalczyk), Warsaw „The wheel of time” Performance Art. Festiwal, Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń „Egojego”, NRD Galery, Toruń „Femina”, TCK Gallery, Tarnowskie Góry „Pokaz”, Critics Gallery, Warsaw „I am eclectic” – “Pokaz” Critics Gallery, Warsaw „Many Homelands Homeland for Many”, Municipal Gallery „The Night of Museums”, Janowiec k/Kazimierza nad Wisłą „Survival” 5. Review of Young Art in Extreme Conditions, Wrocław „To Be in Time before Sunset”, „Wozownia” Gallery, Toruń „Klosz—art” Gallery (Danuta Nawrocka & Wojciech Kowalczyk), Gdańsk „Castle of Imagination”, 14th International Performance Art Festival, International Art Centre, Broellin (Germany), „OFFicyna” Gallery, Szczecin Art Festival „Art Habour”, Bydgoszcz „Klosz—art” Gallery, Gdańsk Ustka—Słupsk—Toruń—Cracow „Castle of Imagination”, 13th International Performance Art Festival, Municipal Gallery, Bydgoszcz
Publisher
2015