ANNA SPAKOWSKA
Artist
Artist Statement
Whether painting or making an installation out of unusual objects, Anna Spakowska is always emphasizing the beauty and the distinct possibilities that each chosen medium or technique has to offer. Using her long-term experience as a designer she always integrates the art piece with its surrounding architecture. Following her passion for design among the array of her artworks she has developed a series of acoustic art panels.
The work presented here is a part of a whole series dedicated to boxing fights, made while closely studying the core of what this discipline is all about. Painted with black ink on huge sheets of paper, the artworks express the intensity and the movement so exceptionally unique to boxing.
Biography
2005, 2007 / collaboration with International Theatre Festival “Dialog”, Wrocław, Poland
2006 / collaboration with Neerja International, Jaipur, India
2007 / scholarship, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Braunschweig, Germany
2008 / MFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław, Poland
2008 / collaboration with Tillberg Design, Höganas, Sweden
2009-2017 / Lived and worked in Switzerland; long-term collaboration with Wyss+Santos Architekten in Basel
Currently lives in Poland and often travels for various international commissions
Exhibitions
2017 / ”Gut in Form” group exhibition, Gallery Grunder Perren, Adligenswil, Switzerland
2015 / ”It’s A Penguin’s Life…” exhibition, Il Gatto Nero, Basel, Switzerland
2014 / “Peru Series”, Café Frühling, Basel, Switzerland
2014 / “FeltForms”, Il Gatto Nero, Basel, Switzerland
2014 / “Felt Forms”, TAKTIL Work/Shop, Basel, Switzerland
2013 / Group exhibition, Galerie KATAPULT, Basel, Switzerland
2008 / ”Dyplomy 2008” group exhibition, BWA Awangarda, Wrocław, Poland
2008 / ”Black Ink” solo exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław, Poland
2007 / Group exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław, Poland
2004 / ”Seasons” solo exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław, Poland