Dates: 11.06-17.07.2021
Venue: 4G, Szeroka 37
Artist: Adriana Majdzińska
Curator: Grażyna Tomaszewska-Sobko
Graphic identification: Gosia Golińska
Adrianna Majdzińska’s sculptures on display at the 4G Gallery reflect on the value of time, „fleetingness” of reality, whose events and phenomena are measured with ever shorter intervals and where quickness is prioritised in spite of its costs. Majdzińska is a Tri-city well established artist, consistently working in natural materials, such as wood and metal, reaching also for ceramics and concrete. Not infrequently will she use unwanted objects assmbled in her works into compositions of riveting interest, like the one employing kitchen knives. Her solo exhibition at the Gdańsk City Gallery displays both her previous works form „Nuncjusz” [„Nuncio”] and „Perswazje” [„Persuasions”] cycles and also new accomplishments: „Puklerze” [„Bucklers”] and „Natural Killer”. The artist draws inspiration from different sources: far from limiting herself to her individual experience, she refers to cultural codes, broadly understood. Natural materials chosen for her works seem to be juxtaposed with their keynote, deeply rooted in culture, by which she manages to enhance their inapparent meaning. „My sculptures cannot exist without a subject matter. Having created so many of them over the years, this has turned out to be the crucial element. Working with an idea and searching for an appropriate form for it. Then, slowly narrowing down the field of research by rejecting unnecessary redundancies until the well-fitting shape – the one capable of encapsuling the complete content – emerges. Nevertheless, such maturated perception of form has crystalized over a long period of time.”
The exhibition of Ada Majdzińska’s works belongs to the Logos-Bios cycle gathering those sculptors who analyse and juxtapose the notions of culture and nature, the domain of chaos represented by biology and that of logos identified with order, human intervention or even symbolic oppression.
Ada Majdzińska
The artist defended her diploma in 2000 at the studio of Prof. Sławoj Ostrowski at the Faculty of Sculpture of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts where, in 2006, she launched her professional career. In 2019 she earned a degree of D.Sc (habilitation) becoming a professor of the Academy.
Her field of interest include sculpture, drawing, artistic activity and social initiatives. She mainly focuses on 3-dimensional form in its classical sense. Adrianna Majdzińska was a participant of numerous exhibitions, plein -airs and sculpture competitions both in Poland and abroad. She is a holder of various prizes and sholarships: granted by the Ministry of Culture and Art in 1998, the prize of the Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, the Prize of the Society of Friends of Arts in Gdańsk fort he best sculpting debut in 2000, in 2003 she was awarded a golden medal of the XXth Sculpture Showroom in Warsaw, in 2006 the medal of the President of Gdańsk and four times she earned a scholarship of the City of Gdańsk. Between 2015-2017, together with Czesław Podleśny, Adrianna Majdzińska initiated and coordinated the Art Space WL4 – an independent artistic community located in Wiosny Ludów 4 in Gdańsk. Since mid 2018, Majdzińska has been involved in another artistic milieu – WL4 Art Space in Mleczny Piotr venue at Cesarska Shipyard in Gdańsk.
