Barbara Palka Winek

Studied in the Department of Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, in ateliers
of the Professors: Szancenbach, Brzozowski and Buczek. She graduated in 1983.
She lives and works in Cracow, Poland.

The direction of the creative explorations of Barbara Palka winek is determined by a combination of the self painting pronunced form of its plane. Having dealt with the figurative painting for quite a long time, the painter left however a free margin for the interpretation of her works. It has been a kind of self-protection against the easy trivialisation of the painting form.
The art of Barbara Paka - Winek has many meanings. Her painting is a compromise between the illustrative art and the abstraction. The result of this compromise is the series of paintings, called ,,The Screens" by the author.
The present analysis is an attempt to find a broader philosophical context for ,,The Screens". The brightness of the painting matter, achieved by using the method of glazing is unexpectedly composed with the impenetrable planes of ,,likely figures".
The picture becomes a discourse between the visible - named and impenetrable - mysterious, but also very capacious. This, what seems to us to be impenetrable is most ...

1984
1985 participation in the collective
exhibitions in Koeln and Nurnberg.
1988 Dell Bello Gallery, Toronto
Internalional Exhibition of miniature Art
1988 Galerie Nawrocki, Dortmund individual exhibition
1989 Mirage Gallery, Cracow individual exhibition
1990 Fondazione Sinaide Ghi, Rome International Exhibition of
Water Paintings
1991 "Transcendence". Katowice, Biennial of the Sacral Art
1992 Fondazione Sinaide Ghi, Rome International Exhibition of
Water Paintings
1992 Palace of Art. Cracow Grand Salon of Painting
1993 "Ecce Homo", Katowice, IV Biennial of the Sacral Art
1993 IV Triennale of Water Paintings. Lublin
1994 Fairs of the Modern Art. Opole
1994 Palace of Art. Cracow, The Spring Salon of Art., ZPAP
1994 II Triennial of Fine Arts . "Sacrum" Czstochowa
1995 Polnische Kulturtage in Hilden
1995 "Ars Pro Natura" Stutlgart
1996 Palace of Art, Cracow, The Spring Salon of Painting, ZPAP
1996 Auction of Contemporary Polish Paintings, New York
1997 Palace of Art, Cracow, The Autumn Salon of Painting, ZPAP
1999 "Piano Nobile" Gallery, Cracow indiv...