Agnieszka Opala
"Agnieszka Opala's painting is the fruit of a certain superstructure which originates in the imagination and balances between extremes expressed in a friendly, imperfect, but at the same time, risky way.
It is the need for play, sometimes
enigmatically encoded manipulation, the desire for theatre-like camouflage and
carnival masquerade that lay the foundations of these paintings. Robust and hard
in reality, objects and things sometimes seem limp
and soft like plant stems in Agnieszka Opala's paintings.
Chairs and tables, windmill windows and arms, umbrellas, cups, railing and animal figures look so rickety. Sketched on the canvas with a high degree of conventionality, they take us into a fairy-tale world somehow made-up by "naive" convention, but rooted in probable realism. They create a world with stage design elements or views of the interior where elongated objects and oddly deformed animals and people lead their exciting lives.
Cats are common heroes of Agnieszka
Opala's paintings, just like windows, chairs, glasses, and cups, which also play
main and ambiguous roles in this show. This explicit facetiousness and
imaginativeness, supported with vivid colours and sweeping
brush strokes are unquestionable evidence not only of an open approach towards
painting, but also of authentic spontaneity and an overwhelming delight of
painting."
Excerpt of review, 2003 by Stanislaw Tabisz
Untitled Oil on canvas 41X31
Untitled Oil on canvas 46X34
Untitled Oil on canvas 47X24
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