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Deep Dream, Mixed Media on Canvas, 100×70cm, 2007

“Pleasures and Terrors” in The Mill Theatre Art Gallery would be Katarzyna’s seventh instalment in the last year in Ireland.

The relation between painting and imagination, eroticism, dreams all have been always a constant theme for me. The abiding theme is the human condition, explored over in painting. It is the relationship, the struggle and fragility of feelings that inspire me. Self destructive love, imagination, mystery, compulsiveness, addiction, insecurity, mistrust, tragedy, love, imagination, continuity, dream, safeness, fear, cold, hot, night, day, peace, trap – it is a journey of pleasures and terrors. What I am telling is a story about dark and private theatre, which is reaching the subconscious roots of human condition. A massive expanse of rich colour is exposing the raw vitality of the mind.
A big part of the paintings is open – ended, which constitutes effects of saving suppressed emotion. Some parts of the paintings are abstracted (Utilizing automatic techniques and careful study I am exploring physical expression of emotion) because of the elusive nature of our feelings. The effect of the feeling’s complexity is doubled by the works chaotic texture. Trying to contour human silhouette in bold structure on the surface, I am exploring the physical expression of the theme. The paintings give direct attention to their own physicality and because of that, the human form emanates with psychological structure, driving to insubstantial. Colour and texture are symbols.
The tale of passion and reflection is improvised.

Like all addictions and strong love and emotion, painting is my pleasure and my terror.

Pleasures and Terrors, New Paintings by Katarzyna Gajewska
The Mill Theatre Art Gallery, on Saturday, 8th September 2007, at 5.30 pm
Exhibition continues until 4th October,

Dundrum Town Centre,
Dundrum,
Dublin 14,
Co. Dublin,
Phone : +353 01 296 9340
Email : aoife@milltheatre.com

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