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Abaca I, 2019 Painting

Wioletta Kulewska

Malta

Painting, Oil on Canvas

Size: 55.1 W x 63 H x 0.4 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

'Abaca I', 2019 Oil and fabric cut outs on Canvas 160x140cm 'ABACA’ series continues Kulewska’s experimentation in abstraction, in which each of six canvases presents gently geometric forms set against a subdued background. Some of these coloured shapes appear as if folded like paper or cloth, as three-dimensional objects, or as delicately crenelated forms. The shapes seem to float in ‘infinite’ space, reminiscent of the Russian Suprematist painters, the art movement founded by Kazimir Malevich, who frequently used “the white” to represent a state of transcendence. Drawing on constructivist painting, the specificity of each shape’s design approximates human technology and industrial purpose, whether as garment cloth, machine patterns or printing tools, but these forms also suggest a human playfulness and movement, or perhaps a primitive, dream-like language. Abacá, the title of the exhibition, derives from the abacá plant, originating from the Philippines and used in industry as a major source of high quality fibre prior to the introduction of synthetic textiles. A material used in cordage, hatmaking, teabags, carpeting, clothing and furniture, abacá featured prominently in the city of Barreiro, the site of Kulewska’s residency, before it was phased out with the city’s deindustrialisation in the early 1970s.

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Oil on Canvas

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55.1 W x 63 H x 0.4 D in

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Wioletta Kulewska Born in Poland, 1980 Lives & works in Valletta, Malta Wioletta Kulewska is a Polish painter and designer who has lived and worked in Valletta, Malta since 2009. Kulewska is a graduate of the Department of Fine Arts at the High School of Arts in Opole, Poland, as well as the Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw and London Metropolitan University, UK. In 2017 she completed a Painting in contemporary practice course at the Slade School of Fine Arts in London. In 2018 she was selected for the Slade’s educational residency in contemporary painting. Currently, Kulewska is part of Turps painting programme cc 2018/19. In March 2019, she was part of the Turps|PADA art residency in Lisbon Portugal.

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