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AGATA AGATOWSKA

Agata Agatowska, a Polish artist, studied theatre design and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Art, Dusseldorf. Through her on-going practice within both of these genres, we see an interesting mix of ideas and themes emerge.

Agatowska's forms and choice and use of materials owe a debt to constructivism. In Removal to Mars 1 & 2 the honed down facets glorify the machine and the scientific world's achievement of getting man not only to fly but also to travel in space. Agatowska's work is not so much concerned with particular physical laws and constants but more with the net result of mans scientific endeavours. It is the human aspect of discovery that is Agatowska’s area of interest.
 
At the start of every discovery there is the childs question 'Why?' and it is this we see explored in her practice. In “Removal to Mars “we see a child’s and cat’s faces encased in their rocket, looking out, looking beyond the physical constraints of the engineering and scientific skill that surrounds them. Their focus is on something bigger, a more fundamental question, what is out there?, how did we get here? There is playfulness to the work that reminds us of what it is to be a child and to look at our world with innocent interest. She has captured the essence of the imagination that triggers the work of so many great scientists.

Yes, these are homages to technology and science but they crown mans sovereignity overall - only man has the imagination to question, investigate and materialise the unknown.

Ingrid Hinton 2010

Ice Cream
Mastic
97 x 65 cm

Girl
Mastic
122 x 68 cm

Agata Agatowska is a talented young sculptor whose independent figurative sculptures marked by a dark isolation have been awarded prizes many times.

Her works contain an inner cohesion and create a moving language of forms by a concentration of content and a formal reduction.

Agatowska reveals the relationship and dependence between scultpure and pantomine included in spatial relationships.

It is with great interest that I observe her artistic development and I am convinced that thanks to her unusually interesting artistic creativity and active interest in the contemporary view of man and the world she is fully qualified to receive the scholarship of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland.

Tony Cragg

Removal to Mars I
2008, Mastic
190 x 44 cm

Education

Academy of Fine Arts, Dusseldorf
Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, Poland

Awards

2010 City of Oświęcim Grant, Poland
2009 City of Oświęcim Grant, Poland
2008 Darmstädter Sezession Award, Darmstadt, Germany
  Grand Prix Young Art Biennial Rybie Oko 5, Słupsk, Poland
  City of Oświęcim grant, Poland
2007 Hedwig und Robert Samuel-Stiftung, Düsseldorf, Germany
2006 Friedrich H.J. Schneider-Stiftung, Düsseldorf, Germany
2004, 2002, 2001 City of Oświęcim Grant, Poland

Exhibitions

2010 Beijing International Art Biennale, China, catalogue;
  Darmstädter Sezession, Darmstadt, Germany, catalogue;
  Ernst & Young, 701e.V., Düsseldorf, Germany;
  Exchange Muc-Dus, Filser&Gräf Gallery, München, Germany, catalogue;
  Follow up, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Düsseldorf, Germany;
  OCK, Oświęcim, Poland, catalogue;
  Bielska Gallery BWA, Bielsko-Biała, Poland, catalogue;  
  Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art, Słupsk, Poland, catalogue;
2009 KyotoBar,Cologne, Germany;
  BWA Zielona Góra Gallery, Zielona Góra, Poland, catalogue;
  International Sculpture Triennial, Poznań, Poland, catalogue;
  kommen sie nach hause 9, Calcutta, India;
  New Double Note, MDSM, OCK Oświęcim, Poland, catalogue;
  kommen sie nach hause 9, Cologne,Germany;
  BBK Kunstforum, Düsseldorf, Germany;
  kommen sie nach hause 9, Berlin, Germany;
2008Darmstädter Sezession, Darmstadt, Germany,catalogue;
  Rybie Oko 5, Klima Bocheńska Gallery, Warsaw, Poland;
  The Dairy of the Tamagotchi Generation, Klima Bocheńska Gallery, Warsaw,Poland;
  Young Art Biennial Rybie Oko 5, Kameralna Gallery, Słupsk, Poland, catalogue;
  kommen sie nach hause 9, Cologne, Germany;
  RathausGallery, Wuppertal, Germany;
2007 PSD Bank, Düsseldorf, Germany;
2006 Junior Gallery, Cincinnati, USA;
  Peace Museum, Chicago, USA;
  Über den Kopf, Flottmann-Hallen, Herne, Germany, catalogue;
  Serendipity, Flottmann-Hallen, Herne, Germany, catalogue;
  Maritime, Boot-Messe,Düsseldorf, Germany;

Removal to Mars II
Mastic
190 x 44 cm