Anna Baranska
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW been shown, it is beyond my reach. I give it to the audience and wait for feedback.
The issue of audience reception in the process of decision making is significant insofar as I have a feeling that I try to create a multilayered world and avoid providing explicit answers, and instead I build a story for everyone to interpret in their own way. Such multifaceted interpretations on the part of the audience took place for example during my PhD thesis defence. My works evoked radically different emotions and associations. Everyone responded to my works in their own, unique way, which I found absolutely fascinating. There is not only the world that I created, but there are multiple worlds created by the viewers.
I would also like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to present my works in LandEscape.
My future plans are very extensive and their realisation is going to take time as there are so many ideas on my mind. My last project“ Silence, serenity, emptiness – invites, entices, calls,” which also served as a basis for my PhD thesis, is a kind of a signpost or a guideline I would like to follow. Traditional canvas paintings are a background on which I project videos; in this way two works made with the use of different media blend into one. As an artist, I benefitted a lot from realizing the project, which involved a mindset evolution and led to the maturation of my standpoint and artistic creation. I managed to overcome certain technological barriers and gained new knowledge as well as a new perspective on art. I hope this will be more evident in my future projects. Currently I am working on a project under the working title“ The natural and anthropogenic environment. Tracing the relationship with the use of video, sound and painting.” Here I also combine traditional painting with the use of textured primers, video and sound.
I will certainly continue painting, including works serving as backgrounds for video presentations. In the near future I would like to develop the techniques of painting over zinc plating and on glass as well as verre églomisé. In 2017, I am planning to realise a cycle of graphics in which I intend to use original graphics techniques, a combination of workshop graphics with painting. The use of primers, selfdeveloped modelling clay as well as natural and synthetic glues gives very interesting effects. The matrices are spatial or textural paintings that are rubbed with block printing ink and used to make imprints, thus creating spectacular results. I do not limit myself to only one technique and likewise, I do not intend to restrict myself to one subject matter; indeed, recently I have been observing nature and the environment much more carefully. I am planning to work on videos individually and in cooperation with Michal Baranski.
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