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Thermal sensation
Series of oil paintings by Monika Gabrys for the City Museum of Merida

Living in peaceful conditions and having mostly unrestricted opportunities to advance our work comes with a price. Above 40 degrees Celsius with thermal sensation exceeding 50. 

A human body has adapting abilities since time immemorial. The adaptation is perhaps one of those virtues that have guaranteed our survival, even when responsibility for those conditions is the product of our own decisions.. 

Monika Gabrys is a Mexican artist of Polish descent, who grew up in a country of harsh and snowy winters. She arrived in Mexico 13 years ago to start a family and begin the process of adaptation that has led her to a unique integration with the dynamic art world in Yucatan. As a "Pilgrim" in our City.

Her works undoubtedly display rigorous academic training. Which is apparent in the professional use of the artistic materials, but also in the seriousness with which she approaches each of her artistic projects and the various ways in which she commits herself to the artistic guild and the society of the city of Merida.

In this series of paintings we can witness a journey from a selection of greyish colors (European) with colorful tints that are stirred to be released as a result of the clash of cultures, towards a rescue raft in the midst of embarrassment. We can read hours of experimenting strategies to survive the heat, described in her canvases with increasingly colder colors, as sharing the excitement of the fan from her last shelter to live, resting in the coldness of a floor accompanied by her cat, which by some clever intuition lazily spreads on the floor where the fresh air can be breath.

From there the artist reaches out to describe her world and her circumstance, which, despite being always plagued with complexities, seems to be reduced, at this time, only to the fight against extreme heat.

The ideas are diluted, we could almost see them melting like the candle under the rigor of the flame. There is no room for complex explanations or theoretical frameworks for conceptualizing the work. This time it is a genuine response to one of the ways artists give way to their need to create, propping up the emotional over intellectual, and what can be more emotional than crawling to work when it is above 40 degrees? (Jose Luis Rumbo)
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Monika Malgorzata Gabrys

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Size: 23.6 W x 31.5 H x 2 D in

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Thermal sensation Series of oil paintings by Monika Gabrys for the City Museum of Merida Living in peaceful conditions and having mostly unrestricted opportunities to advance our work comes with a price. Above 40 degrees Celsius with thermal sensation exceeding 50. A human body has adapting abilities since time immemorial. The adaptation is perhaps one of those virtues that have guaranteed our survival, even when responsibility for those conditions is the product of our own decisions.. Monika Gabrys is a Mexican artist of Polish descent, who grew up in a country of harsh and snowy winters. She arrived in Mexico 13 years ago to start a family and begin the process of adaptation that has led her to a unique integration with the dynamic art world in Yucatan. As a "Pilgrim" in our City. Her works undoubtedly display rigorous academic training. Which is apparent in the professional use of the artistic materials, but also in the seriousness with which she approaches each of her artistic projects and the various ways in which she commits herself to the artistic guild and the society of the city of Merida. In this series of paintings we can witness a journey from a selection of greyish colors (European) with colorful tints that are stirred to be released as a result of the clash of cultures, towards a rescue raft in the midst of embarrassment. We can read hours of experimenting strategies to survive the heat, described in her canvases with increasingly colder colors, as sharing the excitement of the fan from her last shelter to live, resting in the coldness of a floor accompanied by her cat, which by some clever intuition lazily spreads on the floor where the fresh air can be breath. From there the artist reaches out to describe her world and her circumstance, which, despite being always plagued with complexities, seems to be reduced, at this time, only to the fight against extreme heat. The ideas are diluted, we could almost see them melting like the candle under the rigor of the flame. There is no room for complex explanations or theoretical frameworks for conceptualizing the work. This time it is a genuine response to one of the ways artists give way to their need to create, propping up the emotional over intellectual, and what can be more emotional than crawling to work when it is above 40 degrees? (Jose Luis Rumbo)

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Painting:Oil on Canvas

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Size:23.6 W x 31.5 H x 2 D in

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Monika Gabrys I was born in Cracow, Poland, however, since 2004 I live and represent Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. I am binational since 2009. I have a career of more than 20 years in painting and in the medium of visual arts. I have dedicated myself to painting, drawing, collage, I have experimented with engraving, contemporary textile art, installations, conceptual art and action art. As a painter I have been active since 1995, after having won first place in a local art festival FEKUSZ and I am still active, since in addition to the Master's artistic project I have just finished the other, selected and supported by the Merida Municipal Fund for the Visual Arts. My main focus is painting, although the label of the painter conflicts me, since my personal search has led me to experiment in different fields and with different media, that is, my position is flexible and open towards what is called interdisciplinary and trans art. I also have a Bachelor of Nursing degree (Institute of Human Sciences INCIH) and experience gained at the Medical Center of the Americas (CMA) and the Agustín O'Horán General Hospital, the fact that at first glance it could be seen as very abstracted from art . However, I consider it an extension of the same search that motivates me to make art, because in recent times, innumerable aspects have been opened that can be used in artistic paths. Painting seems to be a relic of the past, and yet it is still alive, because the act of painting accompanies the human being practically from the beginning. That is why my idea of two-dimensional painting and art oscillates around the questions —which are in accordance with my line of research—: How could painting, located in time and space, be reconciled with the accelerated and paradoxical transformations of contemporary world? How to figure and represent —through painting— our situation in space and time inevitably linking to the computerized and globally interconnected world-space? Because, definitely, we are facing a complex world, with an excess of information, images, screens, references and, now, a post-pandemic world. By choosing this medium (painting) I place myself again in "between” (which is part of my research). I am currently counter-producing with the collective "Des-obra".

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