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    Gold Mirror by Jose Levy
    Quantity
    4,290
    Radial, Glass and Marble Table Lamp by Carlos Aucejo
    Quantity
    1,760
    Black Stone and Brass Stoique Stole Console Signed by Frédéric Saulou
    Quantity
    10,750
    Solid Formations no 5 Sculptural Lamp by Stine Mikkelsen
    Quantity
    3,388
    Brass and Granite Bookend, Signed by William Guillon
    Quantity
    1,760
    Unique Sculpture Signed by Jörg Pietschmann
    Quantity
    3,960
    Core Marble Table Lamp by Carlos Aucejo
    Quantity
    14,960
    Marble Slate Console, Sculpted by Frédéric Saulou
    Quantity
    4,250
    Monolith Brass Sculpted Floor Lamp by Paul Matter
    Quantity
    7,150
    “Small Cloud” Steel Bottle, Signed by Lukasz Friedrich
    Quantity
    1,100
    Grey Sant Vicenç Sculpted Candleholder by Sanna Völker
    Quantity
    242
    Unique Lounger by Jörg Pietschmann
    Quantity
    3,960
    Maiko Wall Mounted Light by Carla Baz
    Quantity
    3,300
    Maat Candleholder by SB26
    Quantity
    2,490
    Poulie, Sculpted Lighting by Jérôme Pereira
    Quantity
    45,221
    Black XVII Sherman Lounge Chair by Arturo Verástegui
    Quantity
    11,380
    Oyster Wall Mounted Brass, Carla Baz
    Quantity
    2,750
    Arcadia Bench, Albane Salmon
    Quantity
    3,520
    Unique Signed Console by Jörg Pietschmann
    Quantity
    9,900
    OBJ-02 Lounge Chair by Manu Bano
    Quantity
    11,000
    Surface, Sculpted Lamp by Henry Wilson
    Quantity
    2,156
    Pearl Necklace Pendant Light, Ludovic Clément d’Armont
    Quantity
    19,470
    Circle Wall Sconce by Sander Bottinga
    Quantity
    880
    Metropolis Brass Sconce by Jan Garncarek
    Quantity
    3,080
    Oyster Brass Turquoise Sconce, Carla Baz
    Quantity
    4,070
    Proportions of Stone Stool by Lee Sisan
    Quantity
    3,960
    Trilithon Marble Coffee Table by OS And OOS
    Quantity
    21,560
    Large Borgia Brass Chandelier by Carla Baz
    Quantity
    2,915
    Unique Sculpture Signed by Jörg Pietschmann
    Quantity
    6,600
    Zoumey Armchair in Iroko Wood by Arno Declercq
    Quantity
    13,200
    Red Oak Armchair by Odami
    Quantity
    11,440
    Unique Brass Bottle, Hand-Sculpted and Signed by Lukasz Friedrich
    Quantity
    1,155
    Once Upon a Time Hypnos Mirror by Mark Sturkenboom
    Quantity
    18,480
    Cave Cabinet by kar
    Quantity
    4,950
    Total:
    262,147

    Language of art as expression of everyday observations

    Language of art as expression of everyday observations

    By Ewelina Makosa

    Being a good observer of surrounding environment is crucial in the process of creating art.
    Art to me is a reflection of feelings and sensitivity, things which happen around us.
    Neither positive, calming, beautiful or tough, difficult, often socially involved topics which can not go without notice. Sometimes I go back to the times of the childhood. It is a valuable source of inspirations.

    Through my art I express emotions and tell a certain story which captures elusive and emotional moments of my life. This, I can express best through various media.

    When creating the hand-painted screen in collaboration with Jan Garncarek for Gallery Philia my emotions were totally positive and pure. They influenced my artistic activities when I was a graduate student of Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. My art at that time was based on calming, positive feelings which I wanted to “infect” the viewer with. I was always enchanted by the face of nature and, how beautiful and dangerous it can be at the same time. I was interested in the way it affects us. My paintings are intended to convey emotions through a minimalist approach to space or landscape. I may say that they express a wish for intimacy with something unknowable – whether because it’s too vast or too far away or too formless. Decorative marks, form and figuration were not important for me, but rather expression of emotions through colour and gesture.

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    Over time my artistic direction evolved. I decided to express social issues concentrated on human beings. It was 2013 when I first started experimenting with large scale paintings, followed by photography and artifacts. The field of my artistic research became corporeality, traces of existence and posthuman memory in connection to analysis of forms of its content. First, I created painting projects that examined the experience of entropy of visible matter. The fascination with the issue of corporality is associated with both the symbolic capacity and sensual extent of the human body, as well as its usefulness. Issues such as fragility of existence, transience and finally death were my main point of interest.

    Currently, my artistic activities are a story of cultural and existential transformation through the prism of the disappearance of the world of traditional objects and tools. I am focusing on a very current topic, which I define as the “crisis of the traces”. That is the irreversible disappearance of tradition and forms of intergenerational communication. This communication was once full of sensual sensations and experiences. Now, we can notice the loss of all the richness of virtual and tactile diversity of the past century. We become posthumans entangled in technological everyday life, unconsciously rejecting some of humans natural habits. This is especially visible now when we are locked down at our homes deprived of the natural forms of communication with other people.

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