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From 7 July, the spaces of the City Gallery in Wrocław will fill up with Katarzyna Kulpa’s large-format abstract paintings, full of lyricism and emotion. Most of the paintings presented by the artist come from her current series Anamnesias.
The eponymous anamnesias, according to Plato’s concept of cognition, signify unforgetting. Thus, they refer to the process of recollecting the pieces which – once captured for a brief moment – were later lost, deep within the recesses of the subconscious. Through her paintings, Katarzyna Kulpa creates for herself a safe, intimate space in which she reaches for distant or repressed scraps of her own stories and experiences – including the darkest ones. The artist comments her creative practice in the following way: Sometimes it is only when I paint that I find out what has been pulled out of my memory. So I treat my own paintings as diaries – photographic plates of my emotions, from an inner state that I can only enter through painting.
Thus, Kulpa’s works expressly incorporate categories of time and space. While creating her paintings, the artist moves around her own worlds. The starting points in her quest for answers to her ontological questions are often areas of knowledge such as philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of nature and cosmology. Yet, the painter always intuitively reaches into the memory realm to capture her current emotional states as deeply as possible. Therefore, her each individual work completes a systematically created and coherent story, as Kulpa puts it in these words: Once, in a conversation with Professor Dobrzaniecki, of whose I was a student and graduate, an idea emerged that has actually become my credo: to paint in a way that makes one painting begin the next. And indeed, I believe that since Palindromes, that is the series preceding Anamnesis, I have been painting one picture over and over again. On the one hand, my paintings are somehow unified and harmonise with each other. On the other hand, however, following Umberto Eco, I give myself permission that they must remain unclosed or even open. So they can be painted endlessly, but in essence they are a story about one thing – about me.
The exhibition opening combined with a concert takes place on 6 July (Thursday) at 6:00 p.m.
The exhibition will be on display until 20 July 2023.
Curator: Katarzyna Zahorska
