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    Solid Formations no 1 Sculpture by Stine Mikkelsen
    Quantity
    6,380
    Last Tree, Sculpted Lighting by Jérôme Pereira
    Quantity
    27,687
    Once Upon A Time Harmonia Morpheus by Mark Sturkenboom
    Quantity
    24,420
    Marble Slate Console, Sculpted by Frédéric Saulou
    Quantity
    4,250
    Unique Sculpture Signed by Jörg Pietschmann
    Quantity
    2,860
    A-Symmetry, Brown Marble Side Table, Frédéric Saulou
    Quantity
    6,500
    Travertino Silver Refined Contemporary Marble Dining Table 160/75
    Quantity
    26,720
    Titan Sculpted Table Lamp, Ludovic Clément d’Armont
    Quantity
    3,680
    Burned Sculpture Signed by Jörg Pietschmann
    Quantity
    5,500
    Light Suspension, Burning Ego by Wim Verzantvoort
    Quantity
    5,890
    Hand-Sculpted Mirror “Scratch”, Signed by Lukasz Friedrich
    Quantity
    1,760
    Maiko Ceiling Mounted Brass and Clear, Carla Baz
    Quantity
    4,400
    Sculpted Double Seat Floating Divan by Chiel Kuijl
    Quantity
    4,840
    Oyster Wall Mounted Brass, Carla Baz
    Quantity
    2,750
    Bling Bling Table by Pietro Franceschini
    Quantity
    11,160
    Unique Table by Jörg Pietschmann
    Quantity
    2,640
    Big Hand Knotted "Nautilus" Rug, Florian Pretet and Lisa Mukhia Pretet
    Quantity
    17,970
    Fluxus, Sculpted Lighting by Jérôme Pereira
    Quantity
    48,444
    Toadstool Collection, Ensemble by Pepe Albargues
    Quantity
    10,241
    Metropolis Brass Suspension by Jan Garncarek
    Quantity
    5,500
    KEP T, Brass and Marble Table, Signed by Noro Khachatryan
    Quantity
    10,120
    Poulie, Sculpted Lighting by Jérôme Pereira
    Quantity
    45,221
    Agora Gold and Black Bar Stool by Pepe Albargues
    Quantity
    1,012
    Block Sconce in Calacatta Viola Marble by Henry Wilson
    Quantity
    3,091
    Clay Sink by Studio Loho
    Quantity
    3,410
    Monument Shelves by Mathieu Girard & Gauthier Pouillart
    Quantity
    14,800
    Pearl Necklace Pendant by Ludovic Clément d’Armont
    Quantity
    36,300
    Aztec Daybed, Signed by Michael Gittings
    Quantity
    8,580
    Alba Top Pendant XL Vertical by Contain
    Quantity
    2,200
    Pair of Courtois Stone Side Tables, Frederic Saulou
    Quantity
    9,500
    Invisible Cities Box I by Studio Lel
    Quantity
    430
    UDD Sofa Table by Lucas Tyra Morten
    Quantity
    5,225
    Dot Chair, Hand-Sculpted and Signed by Cedric Breisacher
    Quantity
    2,970
    Metropolis Brass Table Lamp by Jan Garncarek
    Quantity
    10,520
    Total:
    410,158

    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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