JOANNA Gałecka / Odlot

JOANNA Gałecka / Departure 
Feb. 9 (Friday) 2018 at 19.00 (opening)

Joanna Gałecka came from Bialystok to study in Cracow. Biebrza Valley, where she spent her childhood and early youth impressed itself permanently on her memory and sensitivity. Regardless of later expeditions, she is often taken back to her homeland, which is her "spiritual homeland, a great inspiration." [...] fascination with nature and direct contact with her and the expression are noted in a dedicated cycle of the birds migrations, as well as in others, almost journalistic shots of animals.

In spontaneous uprisings of nature, the artist finds symmetries, sophisticated layouts and decorative subordinated alternation of black and white, light and shadow. Records of chaotic experience, she knows how to give her observations timeless, even systemic form. However, she reaches deeper still, giving a more reflective, and even disturbing picture of nature. [...] Working outdoors is impressed by the creative power of light, but it also involves the power of darkness, mystery and stifling fumes of the night, when onenconnects with sleep, waking from a dream, and the idyll of conciousness.

In the dreamy space with comrades she believes in man becoming emissary to arcane magic. Beast lurking in the shadows, often hidden in the ornament drawing. A threat, although it can also be a guardian spirit, fairytale creature, totem em emblem, guard iem interior. The woodcuts such as Night Mary The artist is a metaphor for the experience, which no longer explains the direct contact with nature. Ś message combines SIU here with the subconscious and the artist is divided into anxiety, which disappears in the light of day. This is often mysterious world of impressions eastern personal experience when combined with totally exotic culture, customs, mythology [...].

In what context can you put Joanna Galecka cin the world of art graphics? Her work growing next to today's graphic trends? The very fact of practicing woodcut in black and white puts her in minority elite circles. Not interested in her workshop experiments, virtual graphics is also not an attraction for her. Trust more their own sensitivity, fidelity to the first discoveries of nature, as well as the influence of Eastern culture, more distant, oriental and those close at hand. Interest in the exotic, and its aura of ritual, the proximity of nature in its direct reflection of wood reminiscent of Paul Gauguin Tahitian woodcuts. On its formation probably also had an impact contact and professional real word for her authority, Jerzy Panek, with whom was friends and exhibited together. "Without any effects, often gray" graphic Galecka to mention the words of Jerzy Panek, shines a rare brilliance, giving testimony enchantment environment. There is also a universal, open to both the immediacy of experience nature, its brightness and darkness and the mystery of existence in this alluring but alien world. (JF some text from the exhibition folder).

Joanna was born in Gałecka Mońkach Podlasie. She graduated from the High School of Art in Supra. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, where in 1992 he graduated from the Faculty of Graphic Arts, and in 1994 at the Faculty of Painting. She was a scholar of the Foundation and the Foundation im.T.Kulisiewicza im.Jana Paul II. She received several awards for his work, among others, several Grand Prix competitions and awards in "Best Print of the Month" and "Small Format" and the Award funded the "Salon of the 100th anniversary of the Polish Artists Union". He has to his credit more than 30 solo exhibitions, including an exhibition of Jerzy Panek that is shown at the Museum of A.Karnego Bialystok and other galleries in Poland. She has participated in many group exhibitions, salons of art, open air, projects in the country and abroad. She conducted workshops in Ashgabat, where he created the "Paper Theater" and the musical spectacle plasticity.John Fejkiel Gallery, ul.Sławkowska 14, 31-014 Krakow, tel.12 429-15-53, 

www.fejkielgallery.com, jan@fejkielgallery.com