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Artist: Joanna Bebarska

Dydis: 21 x 68 cm

Muziejus: Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu (Toruń, Poland)

technika: Photograph

She is a sculpture made of granite, mostly of a cream colour and rough structure, though dark-grey and granular in the upper part, where we can see oblong, parallel traces of the working tool. The shape of the block approximates a pyramid with the top cut at an angle. Some round, more organic, parts are outlined on the sides of the slender form. A delicate, hardly perceptible outline of an almost human shape emerges from the angular block of granite. The softness of the lines breaks the rigidity of the external contours of the block. [N. Cieślak]She is a sculpture made of granite, mostly of a cream colour and rough structure, though dark-grey and granular in the upper part, where we can see oblong, parallel traces of the working tool. The shape of the block approximates a pyramid with the top cut at an angle. Some round, more organic, parts are outlined on the sides of the slender form. A delicate, hardly perceptible outline of an almost human shape emerges from the angular block of granite. The softness of the lines breaks the rigidity of the external contours of the block.She is a sculpture monumental in its expression, although, like in most works by Bebarska, it is also intimate because of its relatively small size. The artist’s minimalism and economical means of expression give a sense of profoundity to her works, which are frequently reflections on art, its limits and meaning. Unlike in her metal works, characterized by precise execution and care for detail, in the stone sculpture Beberska does not emphasize details, but range. “In the dictionary of nature,” Anna Mosingiewicz writes about the artist, “she has managed to […] find her own idiom – rudimentary organic forms which relate to humans and the nature that surrounds them.” Hence the appearance in her works of such elements as body outlines or imprints, and oblong forms. It seems that she merely cuts off the unneeded parts of material, letting the form imprisoned in the stone come to the surface. The second direction in Bebarska’s works leads towards geometry, which is an element ordering their construction, a factor that inspires her search for form, and a vehicle of symbolic values. [N. Cieślak]