Irina Zdanowska

Born in Moscow in 1952. Architect & Artist & Novelist. "Internal Landscapes'' - this expression characterises my lifetime artwork.

My indian ink drawings are a never-ending river of days shaped by external and internal impressions. They remind of the infinite text from the short story by Jorge Luis Borges "The book of sand". The black monochromy of my drawings reflect the feeling of a dream — a mirror of the real world . In a dream there are no invoices. In a dream everything is given rise from the same magma. So as in the Chinese philosophy, the blackness is the truth — it is light.

Institute of Architecture, Moscow 1976
Professional artist licence, Warsaw, 1985

Solo Exhibition

2011 Blackwell Bookshop, Oxford, United Kingdom

2009 Municipal Library Gallery, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland

2007 U Frycza Gallery, Cracow, Poland

2004 U Frycza Gallery, Cracow, Poland

1994 PAAS Gallery, Manhattan, New York, U.S.A.

1994 Robinson Hall, Rutgers University, Bush Campus Center, New Brunswick, NJ, U.S.A

1992 Vega Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

1990 Dolna Volta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

1989 Jarosińska Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

1988 Pokaz Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

1986 "Carrefour de l'Europe", Manufacture des Tabacs, Nantes, France

Selected Group Exhibitions

1996 "Bazar", Vmeste Gallery, Moscow, Russia

1988 "Polish Impressions", Toruń Gallery, Toruń, Poland

1988 "41 All-Polish Winter Exhibition Room", Radom Museum, Radom, Poland

Poland

1986 "Peinture et dessin", Galerie Absidial, Nantes, France

1986 "Drawings", Stadt Museum, Gottingen, Germany

1986 "Drawings", Museum of Szczecin Castle, Szczecin, Poland

1986 I Triennale of Drawing under the Auspieces of Tadeusz Kulisiewicz, Kalisz Museum, Kalisz, Poland

1986 "Commonplacenesa - Metaphor - Metonymy", Pismo Literacko-Artystyczne Gallery , Cracow, Poland

1985 "Association 2", Al...